April 2022 Spring Edition

Gloucestershire Heritage Hub

Gloucestershire Archives: Passport to the Past

Passport to the Past: Growing up in war time

Wednesday 6 April, 4 - 5pm. Free of charge. For 6-13 years.

 

This session is about what daily life was like for children at the time of the Second World War. One of our friends who was a young child in WW2 will be with us to answer your questions about what life was like back then. Maybe you have relatives or neighbours of your own who are now in their eighties or nineties – they could tell you about their memories to share with us in the session.

Rationing is something you would definitely know about If you were a child in the 1940s. Sugar was hard to come by – so there were hardly ever any sweets or puddings. Meat and cheese were a rare treat. And your clothes and toys were probably home-made, ‘hand-me downs’.

Although children in rural places like Gloucestershire where there are lots of farms were sometimes luckier than children living in towns, their families would still have had ration books. Life could be hard – but we are going to celebrate that throughout history children have always found a way to play and have fun!

To book this talk visit Gloucestershire Archives Events

Coming in May...

Passport to the Past: Up Your Street

Wednesday 5 May, 4 - 5pm. Free of charge. For 6-13 years.

House Detectives! Whether you live in a high-rise flat, a 400 year old country farm or a brand-new house, your home in fascinating. Or maybe you live somewhere more unusual such as on a boat or in a mobile home? Wherever you are, we want to hear all about it! 

In this session focused on local history, we will be looking through windows of homes both in the UK as well as abroad. Find out about people in the past and the present. And imagine what homes might be like in the future. 

Did you know that one of the worst jobs in the past was collecting the ‘night soil’ or in other words, everything which ended up in a chamber pot before flushing toilets became common? 

‘Sleep tight’ is a saying thought to originate from tightening the bed strings before going to bed? 

Up until the last 150 years, houses did not have numbers. How did the Postman deliver the post?

To book this talk visit Gloucestershire Archives Events

Other useful information about the sessions.....

If you are aged 6 – 13 and enjoy history and what it can tell us about today’s world, don’t miss this monthly online after school club! You’ll meet, talk to, and have lots of real time fun as experienced session leaders from Gloucestershire Archives as they lead you on an hour-long adventure into the past.

For every monthly Passport event, we create new resources which can be used during the session. These will appear on the Passport to the Past: fun activities and resources for families and schools page at least 48 hours before each event takes place giving you time to print them off. This link will also be sent to you a couple of days before the event takes place.


If you can’t print off the pages for the session, please don’t worry! We will display the pages on the screen during the event and all your child will need is a couple of pages of blank paper and a pen or pencil.


Please note that there are other pages listed as downloads which you can also print and enjoy in your own time if you want to do so.

You should receive your Zoom link as an automated message when you book on to this event (remember to press the "Book now" button once you've entered your details). If you don't, please check your junk folder. If it's not in there, please contact archives@gloucestershire.gov.uk and we will send you a link.

    4 - 5pm. Free of charge.

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