Talks and Visits
I have spent a two decades in re-enactment as well as designing and running schools and group hands-on sessions at Bursledon Windmill and Treadgolds Ironmongers of Portsea Museum.
I am interested in any feedback on this page of ideas. Please give this via the contact us page.
I believe that learning should be fun. Learning through trying things out, hands-on activites, as well as listening, looking and thinking and talking things through are great. I also believe in a multi-facetted approach. So from a school's point of view a number of subject areas could be covered by a single visit, such as history, science, maths.
My prices will vary depending upon actual content/materials required.
Tudor household life:
Health and the idea of the Four Humours and how this effects your diet and your way of life.
Bread from the field to the plate - threshing, winnowing, grinding, boulting, mixing, prooving, baking ( 'manchet' ( white bread ) and low class bread ). If you couldn't bake it yourself where did you buy your bread and how much did it cost?
Create a meal, of pre-prepared ingredients, some high status dishes ( compound salad & a marchpane subtletie ) other more ordinary dishes ( pottage )
Cleaning - house, people and clothes, when and how.
How do we know all this - they printed 'how to do' books for the rising middle classes.
What would you grow in your cottage garden?
In the Tudor Kitchen at Tudor House in Southampton, during the Tudor Revels event September 2012
Below: A Compound Salad.
Two simple marchpane subtleties made by visiting children, a cornucopia and St Michael killing the dragon. This involved them in grinding/pounding the almonds, sugar and rose water together to make the marchpane and painting them with authentic natural colours.
