Victorian School Workshops
Interactive Victorian Visits
Bring the world of Queen Victoria into your classroom with an interactive, fun and hands-on workshop from Marvellous History. Find out what life was like over 150 years ago in the age of invention, exploration and Empire. Children can attend a Victorian school and compare it to modern times, discover the life of a Victorian child, make a Great Exhibition with all the latest inventions and learn about daily life, clothing and food through handling artifacts of the time.
The map on the right shows the area where we can offer Victorian workshops at our standard rate. We can offer workshops outside this area at an additional cost.
Workshops can be run on specific topics or combined to cover the whole period. Topics covered could include:
- Electricity! Radio! Cars! Amazing inventions of the Victorian Age
- The British Empire: how did one little island come to rule half the world?
- Victorian food: rotten meat, calves heads and squashed ducks!
- Life as a Victorian child: school, work and play (if you’re lucky)
- Around the world in 80 days: marvels and adventures far off lands
- Victorian archaeology and history – watch out for the Mummy’s curse!
- Developments in biology and medicine
- Who made Man? Darwin’s theory and the battle between science and religion
- Victorian Engineers: the steam ships, railways, bridges and tunnels that connected the world
- Could you survive a Victorian Workhouse?
- Clothing and cloth production
- Ghosts, spirits and monsters! Victorian supernatural fiction (great for Halloween!)
Make it a dressing up day! Download our dressing up sheet here:
What we do:
- Bring a wide range of artefacts – either originals or accurate replicas
- Dress up as a historically accurate character for the day
- Provide a bespoke timetable that fits with your particular learning objectives
- Bring almost all the equipment and materials for our activities
Example day:
- School days – Pedagogue & School Yard Games
- Lets Go Shopping!
Break
- A day in the life of a domestic servant
- Nursery to Kitchen – artefact handling
Lunch
- Make a thaumatrope & illustrated letters
- British Empire – The Tea Race!
What we need:
- A Hall
- At least two staff members and a minimum of one for every 30 children
- A couple of tables to display
- A place to get changed
- Suitable parking close to the hall
Make an impact with our Victorian WOW days.
Book a visit from a “real” Victorian today!
