Children showing interest in History

[brigidmac]

I hope to do workshops in tree making for home schoolers .people who learn differently .older people .and maybe go into local schools as a guest .I like Victorian and Edwardian and ww1era

but also doing living memory : fifties sixties seventies

Hard to get my head around the fact that the eighties is history now ..but is it taught in school

The six year old who came in rootschat room with me asked a lady in New Zealand if they have museums
In Paris she went to a museum where they could dress in Victorian clothes and in Leicester we have Newarhose museum with a 1930 s reconstruction of a small street and a WW 1 trench

Here.s a page I used to explain about my great grandfather being arrested for selling postcards of a lady in her undies

"it's NOT rude "

[Viktoria]

Wow! that waist-.
No wonder the had the vapours.
Some time ago on T.V the programme had  the preserved liver of an Edwardian lady.
There was such a deep groove caused by the steel bones in her corsets that the liver was almost in two halves.

It is always difficult getting a sense of time and history across  to young children.
They don`t play very imaginatively nowadays as we used to do so it is perhaps harder for them to
visualise how things were.

We once took the top class to a very poor area of Manchester , Angel Meadow. Charter St Mission
did "dress up days"and we all sat on forms at long desks and did £ S D sums.
Later we played whip and top, hoops and skipping and Rally Vo( Relieve )O.
They had been a difficult class and did not really deserve the end of year treat  to somewhere like Alton Towers.
Angel Meadow was a last minute substitute when they had "sobered up " a little.

Guess what-- they voted it the best school trip ever.Or did they !!!
                                                                                                    Viktoria.

[Clarkey500]

I'm happy to share ideas too Brigidmac.

The eighties can be taught in history lessons in England. Not sure about Scotland or Wales though as they follow their own curriculum. 

I was even taught about the eighties in history at primary school by looking at the decades from the 1900's. 

[brigidmac]

 I did a simple

time travel detectives

Of my own family tree mystery

" Is this Charlotte" ?

With pics from various books about what people would have worn

Two dollars and photos of my family and friends

Then we did too young too old too rich
Wrong skin colour
 looks like   

They were intrigued that everything in history is not known and they can be part of solving mysteries ...every theory is valid ..

[Clarkey500]

I did a simple

time travel detectives

Of my own family tree mystery

" Is this Charlotte" ?

With pics from various books about what people would have worn

Two dollars and photos of my family and friends

Then we did too young too old too rich
Wrong skin colour
 looks like   

They were intrigued that everything in history is not known and they can be part of solving mysteries ...every theory is valid ..

Sounds very interesting! Children do love solving mysteries and proposing theories. 
 Thank you Brigidmac.

[brigidmac]

Thanks Clarky

Grown-ups including myself enjoy the stickers but sometimes it grieves me to cover up the beautiful underwear so putting the sticker on a seperate piece of paper and drawing the missing body parts is an extra activity

these usbourne books are sold by a friend of mine and i get 10% off

some of the hat stickes include the persons face ..so it is possible to make a complete person on another paper

the coats and muffs ..then cover up beautiful dresses so it seems a shame to but all the layers onto the pages of the books

i will try and include photos of what i mean

[Viktoria]

Do you remember, the ladies I mean, those books with a cardboard figure of a little girl wearing
an underskirt?
There were various dresses, socks ,shoes, hats ,coats etc you could press out, and all  were attached by tabs at the shouldersor ankles etc.
You could change her outfit as you pleased but nothing was permanent.
You could also trace round garments and design your own outfits. We had hours of fun, this post has reminded me of that.Thankyou.
 I wonder if ,for example Manchester Museum of  Costume at Whitworth Park would have prints of clothes from various eras?
                                         Viktoria.

[brigidmac]

yes they had them in some girls magazines in the 60's ..Bunty ?JUDY ??

[brigidmac]

Here's another from Victorian sticker book

Children love seeing the old roller skates

..I remember finding a rusty pair of my father's made of metal with leather straps from 1950
..they may have been older if he had then second hand
 to me  as a child they were antiques !