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Step inside a Victorian household with our Victorian Home Discover Box, designed to help pupils explore how daily life has changed over time. Through hands on investigation of real and replica objects—such as butter pats, carbolic soap, dolly pegs, chamber pots, stone hot water bottles and Sunday books—learners compare Victorian routines with modern home life. Stations covering kitchen work, laundry, bedrooms, bathrooms and leisure encourage rich discussion about hygiene, technology, comfort and family roles. Pupils build historical vocabulary, develop enquiry skills and create written responses, from object descriptions to diary entries, bringing Victorian domestic life vividly into focus.
The Victorian Home Discover Box includes the following items:
- Flat iron
- Box iron
- Candle snuffer (reproduction)
- Victorian penny (20)
- Butter pats
- Carbolic soap
- Wooden pegs (three, reproduction)
- Infant’s cap
- Infant’s gown
- Woman’s drawers
- Penny lick
- Chamber pot
- Stone hot water bottle
- Copy of ‘The Girl’s Own Paper’
- Sunday book
- ‘Old and New’ matching game
- Bag for object handling
- Folder of Victorian images with notes
