There is no set way to learn from archives – that’s what makes them so fun! Please use the information provided in any way you like, however if you are looking for some structured activities or ideas, we have provided some for you here.
Pre-Prepared Activities
Below are links to pre-prepared activities. You can print these out or use them as a template to create your own activities.
Victorians Wordsearch
Search for Victorian related words
Victorians Quiz
A quiz about all things Victorian!
Other Ideas
- One of the documents we have up to show you is a sketch of a group of soldiers during the Boer War. Try to either sketch a battle scene or do what they did – draw what they saw around them!
- The newspaper cutting about Constance MacKenzie and the photograph of the Northern Meeting Ball are both from a huge scrapbook kept by a Victorian lady called Mary Gwendoline Davidson. Many Victorians kept scrapbooks. Why not start one yourself with photos, magazine cuttings, recipes, lists and thoughts?
- Imagine living in the poorhouse because you had so little money there was nowhere else to go. Try and write a letter to a family member describing your life there or draw a picture of you outside the Inverness Poorhouse building.
