Courses - Historic Home Life
MEAT AND
MORE MEAT
4 November 2009
5 November 2009
If you want to eat
the best, freshest and tastiest meat around it helps to be able to prepare
it yourself. The day will focus upon the practical skills of
skinning, drawing, plucking and boning a range of birds and other game,
and at some of the more interesting ways of cooking it.
Tutor: Ruth Goodman
Course fee: £60
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WHAT’S IN A NAME?
27 January 2010
Secrets in signatures and what your signature says about you.
Also learn about autograph collecting, forgery, provenance and personality.
During the day some signatures on documents associated with the Museum will be
examined. 10am-4pm Tutor:Rosemary
Hudson
Course fee: £40
AGEING THROUGH THE AGES
25 April 2010
Are we truly in better health than past generations as we age?
A day to examine attitudes, diets, lifestyles and medicines over the past five
centuries, and compare with our circumstances today. 9.30am–4.30pm
Tutor: Christina Stapley
Course fee: £50
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VICTORIAN CLEANING
5
May 2010
Clean and neat. The Victorian way of keeping your home and family
presentable and hygienic. We shall be looking through and trying out a
huge range of methods from the days before marketed products. Learn more
about these traditional recipes and time honoured techniques. 10am–4pm
Tutor: Ruth Goodman
Course fee: £60
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HISTORIC CHEESE MAKING
Thursday 6 May 2010
A hands-on day focussing upon historical cheese making
techniques, tasks and ingredients. We shall be making a number of different
styles of cheese from skim milk cheese, to cheddaring, cottage cheese to ‘green
cheese’, looking in detail at a number of recipes from the 16th to 19th
centuries. 10am–4pm Tutor: Ruth
Goodman
Course fee: £60
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COTTAGE HERB GARDEN: PERENNIALS FOR
PRESERVES, POTIONS AND PIGMENTS
21 May 2010
When is a flower not a flower? When it is also a herb. Discover the hidden
uses of familiar garden flowers from the herbaceous border. Samples of
wines, dyed materials, remedies and skincare products will inspire a
choice of designing your own ideal border or plot for personal needs or
making recipes. 9.30am–4.30pm
Tutor:
Christina Stapley
Course fee: £50
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HISTORIC CLOTHING DAY
8 June 2010
Examine clothing worn by individuals of a low status who lived
in dwellings similar to those at the Museum. There will also be an opportunity
to handle original garments and fabrics, to examine stock replica clothing and
discuss techniques involved. 10am–4.30pm Tutor:
Barbara Painter
Course fee: £60
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MAKE A HERBARIUM - A PERSONAL
PLANT RECORD
12 June 2010
Learn how to make your own
herbarium: identify plants, effectively press them and record all important
details to create a wealth of knowledge. 9.30am–4.30pm
Tutor: Christin Stapley
Course fee: £50
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SING SUSSEX SONGS
13 June 2010
A day for anyone interested in traditional, unaccompanied
singing and an interest in English social history. No prior knowledge or
experience will be assumed. 9.30am–4.30pm Tutor:
Chris and Ann Hare and Emily
Course fee: £50
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15TH
CENTURY - HERBS IN THE MEDIEVAL MANOR
18 June 2010
From household accounts, cookery recipes and leechbooks comes
a wealth of information and recipes using herbs as flavourings, colourings,
preservatives, fragrances, medicines and pest repellents. Sage, parsley, garlic,
tansy, pot marigolds, rosemary are some of the herbs used
on the day. 9.30am–4.30pm
Tutor: Christina Stapley.
Her
Website
contains information on her workshops, book extracts,
talks, and information on her garden.
Course fee:
£50
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SECRETS OF THE TUDOR STILLROOM
19 June 2010
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The stillroom was the
source of a variety of potions, salves, pest repellents, cleansers,
cosmetics and fragrant mixes in addition to the all-important distilled
aromatic waters. Come and explore some of the recipes handed down
over the generations from medieval times, making cough sweets, salves,
herb honeys and drinks.
Tutor: Christina Stapley.
Her
Website
contains information on her workshops, book extracts,
talks, and information on her garden.
Course fee: £50 includes coffee,
lunch and tea.
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VICTORIAN AND TUDOR HAIR AND
MAKEUP
7
July 2010
The body beautiful. Learn about cosmetics and hairdressing of the Tudor
and Victorian periods. We shall be making a variety of beauty products
from perfumed hair rinses to lipsalves and Tudor hair gel. We shall be
flicking through the fashion images of the day and have a go at recreating
the period look. 10am–4pm
Tutor:
Ruth Goodman
Course fee: £60
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TUDOR SALADS AND VEGETABLES
8 July 2010
There may not have been vegetarians in Tudor England but there were plenty
of vegetables, salad leaves and edible flowers. Explore a whole host
of period recipes centred on herbs and vegetables of all kinds, from Peas
Pottage to Grand Salat. The tradition of fasting days provides us
with a strong and varied range of meat-free dishes to draw upon, and
include an impressive number of different edible plants, some familiar and
some less so.
Tutor: Ruth Goodman
Course fee: £60
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HERB WALK AROUND
THE MUSEUM
10 July 2010
By popular request, a day to learn secrets of herbal folklore,
uses for plants growing wild around the site and details of medical applications
for herbs. Whether your interest is in botany, beauty, fragrance, flavours of
cookery, times of gathering, safe use, recognising dangerous plants or country
lore, there will be fascinating discoveries for all. 9.30am–4.30pm
Tutor: Christina Stapley
Course fee: £50
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BELOW
STAIRS
July 2010 date to be confirmed
A two day course, which studies life below stairs in the
large households of the 16th to 20th centuries.
Day One: A look at the 16th & 17th centuries, including
 | sources of information available including plans,
household ordinances and inventories |
| the study of household
management at Hampton Court |
| the study of preparing and presenting food, the role
of food in emphasising status and table manners |
| a site visit to Cowdray House ruins. |
Day Two: Looking at the 18th
to 20th centuries including:
| the increasing complexity of the organisation of the
household staff |
| the development of the Country House Plan, including
the function of each room, male and female departments and the analysis
of plans for surviving buildings |
| the developments in water supplies, bakehouses,
kitchen ranges, ovens etc |
| the changes in preparation and presentation of food,
the use of still houses and dairies, and methods of serving food |
| A site visit to parts of Petworth House. |
Tutor: Peter Brears is a food
historian and historic house consultant, and has worked on prestigious
projects including Uppark, Petworth House, Woburn Abbey, Chatsworth and
Hampton Court Palace. He will draw on his experience of restoring domestic
environments and kitchens for presentation to the public and for
educational use.
Course Fee:
(To be confirmed) per person, to include tuition, coffees, teas and a light
lunch each day. Students to use their own transport for the site visits,
but lifts can be arranged if needed.
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HERBS FOR HEALTH
21
August 2010
The origins of the
herbaceous border lie in growing herbs for home remedies in the past.
Led by a medical herbalist, the course offers guidance on the most safe
and useful herbs to grow and how to harvest and use or preserve them.
A practical day, including the opportunity to make a footbath, herbal
honey syrups, herbal teas, infused oil, a herb pillow and more.
9.30am-4.30pm.
Tutor: Christina Stapley.
Her
Website
contains information on her workshops, book extracts,
talks, and information on her garden.
Course fee: £50 includes coffee,
lunch and tea.
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“RE-WRITING HISTORY”: MAKING
HISTORICAL INKS
21 August 2010
Recipes for inks have been many and various over centuries:
from adding wormwood to stop mice eating documents, adding brandy to stop inks
freezing in winter, to an inkstand that turns water into ink. Spend a day
learning to make fascinating natural inks, including the chance to try them out!
9.30am–4.30pm Tutor:
Christina Stapley
Course fee: £50
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TUDOR BAKEHOUSE - BREAD
8 September 2010
Museum milled flour
will be used to make common brown loaves of the working folk in the
kitchen’s historic bread oven. The day will include the role of bread in
Tudor life, the technology of the Tudor bread oven, the law of the time
and the special loaves baked for festivals.
Tutor: Ruth Goodman
Course fee: £60
THE TUDOR BAKEHOUSE - PIES AND PASTRIES
9 September 2010
A selection of
techniques and recipes from a Tudor bakehouse, from hand-raised standing
pies to deep fried choux pastry bennets. 10am-4pm
Tutor: Ruth Goodman
Course fee: £60
18TH CENTURY STILLROOM SECRETS
24 September 2010
Despite the growing interest in chemical medicines, for most of the
century the stillroom continued to be the scene of distilling aromatic
waters for medicine and cosmetics. Period recipes made on the day will
range from snuff and hair tonic, through gargles, medicinal cooling and
warming drinks to potted cheese and confections.
9.30am–4.30pm
Tutor:
Christina Stapley
Course fee: £50
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