The name given to the tight trousers worn by some Regency gentlemen, such as the notorious Beau Brummell and his ‘dandy’ followers, as they showed off their leg muscles.
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Victorian Toys Resources for Teachers
Toys are a fantastic way to learn more about the Victorians. You can find out what children liked to do, what they looked like and how they used their toys…
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Victorian school days resources for teachers
What was it like being a Victorian child at school? Did they learn the same things as us? What did they dress like? What did they play in their breaks? …
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Playground games
Out in the playground there were plenty of games to entertain. Games with balls, marbles and tops were all popular (see The Judge’s Lodging’s Victorian Toys – Resources for Teachers)….
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Subjects
In this section you will find some pages from notebooks belonging to children from Presteigne. You will also find a school report. 1. School Report: Although lessons mainly concentrated on…
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Study Materials
Cymraeg1. Slate & pencil: Using a slate in class was an easy and cost-effective way to write and draw. The pencils were also made of slate and the board could…
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School Photographs
Prior to the 1860s, children learned their ‘3Rs’ by attending a ‘private adventure school’ for, at most, one or two years in their early childhood. Presteigne had five or six…
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Clothes & Shoes
Victorian children’s clothes often made them look like miniature adults. Here you can see the ‘best’ clothes of a little boy and girl, which would have been worn when visitors…
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Scrapbooks
Scrapbooks were a favourite pastime of Victorian children. They could be used to collect pieces from newspapers, adverts, fashion pictures, postcards, poems, drawings, pressed leaves and art projects in. Their…
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Toy Theatres
Victorian children enjoyed trips to see pantomimes. At home they would recreate the excitement by using table-top toy theatres to perform plays for their friends and family. Toy theatres could…
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Picture Blocks
Used both for construction and as a type of three dimensional jigsaw, these block are hollow, made from thin pieces of wood covered with paper pictures. In the classroom: How…
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Jigsaws
There are two jigsaws from the 1880s: ‘How jolly it is to be at the seaside’ and ‘Skipping-time comes after lesson-time’. Jigsaws have always been used as educational toys, helping…
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Marbles
The two types of marble shown here are glass and clay. Glass marbles were expensive as they had to be made by hand. If you look at a modern glass…
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Outdoor games
Outdoor games Here, you can see three different wooden whipping tops. The drawings show a top with its whip and boys playing in a ring, seeing whose will spin the…
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Indoor Games
Books of games to be played outdoors or at home were very popular. This game of ‘Head, Body and Legs’ comes from The Modern Playmate – A Book of Games,…
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Tin Train
Toys that show transport have always fascinated children. Models of horses and carts gave way to toy trains as the excitement of the railway came to Britain, allowing people, for…
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Pedlar Doll
English pedlar dolls were faithful replicas of street traders (hawkers) who were a common site in London and other large cities. Their clothes accurately represented that of the working-classes at…
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Dolls
The two dolls shown here are an excellent way to see the difference between what rich and poor girls would have had to play with. The large doll has a…
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Parlour Games
The Human Alphabet Cut out squares of card and attach a cord, long enough to go over a child’s head, to the top corners (it should hang down like a…