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History Artefact Kits

Our history artefact kits aim to demonstate the lifestyle of a historical period. Kits contain, for example, items of clothing, jewellery, coins, writing materials and household items. The periods covered include:

The Aztecs

Contents include:

writing materials

calendar stone

religious and

musical items

 

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The Indus Valley
Contents include: pots, seals, traders game, cart kit

Ancient Egypt
Contents include: writing materials and papyrus, jewellery, religious figures, embalming set and posters

Ancient Greece
Contents include: oil lamp, miniatures (columns and helmet), sports equipment, jugs, music and posters

Ancient Rome
Contents include: full size replica pots including tableware and face pots, miniature pots, jewellery, coins and photopacks

Medieval to Early Modern Pots
Contents include: full size replica pots offering clues to skills and lifestyles of Medieval and Early Modern times and the development of pottery making.

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looking at artefacts in the library

 

Anglo-Saxon
Contents include: pots and urns, jewellery, coin set and clothing

Vikings
Contents include: wattle and daub kit, weaving kit, shoe making kit, jewellery, household items, coins and runes

Tudor
Contents include: tableware, coins, jewellery, writing materials, shoe pattens, wallcharts.

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Fire of London

Insurance plaque

 

Victorian
Contents include: school equipment, household items, toys and resource packs on farming.

Victorian Clothes
Contents include: original adult-size clothes - these items are fragile

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Victorian Seaside

Contents include:

buckets and spades

punch and judy

penny lick and

toys

 

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Victorian School
Contents include: slates, pens, inkwell, backboard, finger stocks and copy books

Victorian Hygiene
Contents include: washboard and other washday items, pitcher and basin, carpet beater and clothes

1930s Clothes
Contents include: adult-size clothes and fashion accessories.

1940s Clothes
Contents include: adult-size clothes and fashion accessories

1950s Clothes
Contents include: adult-size clothes and fashion accessories

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Toys

Contents include:

Greek, Roman, Tudor and Victorian replica toys

 

 

 

 

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World War II
Content includes: Civilian and military artefacts, contemporary documents, postcards and posters