Understanding historical households
Lighting before electricity: splints, wick lamps and lanterns
Compare five lighting objects through fuel, support and enclosure, and avoid treating every household as one simple sequence of progress.
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Household processes and tools
An object’s name becomes clearer when you understand its role in lighting, laundry or food preparation.
Understanding historical households
Laundry before electric appliances: objects and actions
A trough, washing paddle, roller and charcoal iron perform different tasks. Learn to connect museum objects to the work they actually did.
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Grain and dairy tools in the historical kitchen
Follow two branches of work to connect storage baskets, mortars, querns, dough tubs, churns and cheese presses to different products.
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Historical volume measures: reading gorčius, kvorta and pūras
Why an old unit needs a place and date, with carefully limited examples and a method for recording uncertainty.
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