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Victorian school workshops – marvellous history

A picture of what the inside of a Victorian workhouse may have looked like with the words Industry Workhouse and Invention

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:

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Map showing where we run Victorian workshops for primary schools in the UK - workshop areas - Marvellous History Ltd

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
A victorian school teacher putting a dunce hat on a primary school student

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!
a young boy dressed as a victorian school boy working with chalk

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

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If you want to learn more about the Victorian era, or for some useful teaching resources, check out our blog!