Talks, Tours & Field Trips
Home
and Family Life
- An Introduction to Family History
Contact:
Pat Grundy, Archives Researcher, telephone: (0116) 257 1080
Illustrated
lectures
- ‘First
Catch Your Hare’ - The development of cooking in the 19th and 20th
centuries
- ‘All I want for Christmas’ - Favourite
toys of the 20th century
- ‘Best Remedies’ - Kill
or cure medicines from the past
- ‘A woman’s work is never
done’ - Domestic chores in the 20th century especially laundry
- ‘Stitches
in Time’ - The history of needlework
- ‘Christmas
Past’ - How people celebrated Christmas in the past and the origins
of today’s Christmas festival
- ‘And so to bed’ - The
history of the bed and bedtime
- ‘Bringing up baby’ - The
history of motherhood and child care
- ‘We’re all going
on our Summer Holidays’ - The history of the summer holiday
- ‘Palitoy-made
in Coalville’ - The story of the Palitoy toy company who made such
iconic toys as Action Man and Tiny Tears in Leicestershire.
- The
Loughborough Ladybirds - The story of Ladybird books
- Black
cats and open umbrellas - Superstition and folklore
- Everything
stops for tea - The history of tea and tea drinking
Contact:
Fiona Ure,
Curator, Home and Family Life, telehone: (0116) 305 3442
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