I used to have a doll-size tikanagan, made by the mother of two sisters we knew who attended a residential school in Ontario and sometimes went on outings with us. In view of what is now known about the rampant abuse that went on in those schools, I expect they returned to it with considerable […]
Question: True or False. A war was once fought over a bucket. Answer: True. It was, admittedly, part of a larger dispute, but in 1325, the inhabitants of the Italian city states of Modena and Bologna did actually inflict grievous bodily harm on one another over a bucket. https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/03/29/war-of-the-bucket
Photo Credit: Ashley Pomeroy – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, wikimedia https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/june-10/lidice-massacre-nazis-czechoslovakia https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/story-lidice-massacre-180970242
Cereal box toys and sweets don’t come children’s way nearly as much as they used to, but for decades, all the primary providers of cereal found them a great way to ensure children would implore mothers to buy theirs. Because what kid wouldn’t want a magic spoon, 3-in-1 yo-yo, or wacky wall walker? Leading to […]
Playing history-based online games can often prove attractive to even history-resistant kids. https://tinyurl.com/3bmws8yr https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z7nrydm/articles/zj7mywx https://www.historymuseum.ca/dod/games-activities
I personally loathe yoghurt – any kind of yoghurt – but it’s been around a very, very, long time, and its history might be of interest to the millions of kids, and adults, who consume it on a daily basis. https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/yogurt/277847 https://kids.kiddle.co/Yogurt
Having lost the War of 1812, the Americans were leery of being invaded by the British so, in1816, they decided to defend against this by putting up a huge fort at the northern edge of Lake Champlain, between northeastern New York and northwestern Vermont. Unfortunately, they were unaware that that part of the lakeshore was […]
Happy Victoria Day! Kids of today would doubtless find the behavioural expectations of Victorian parents a tad oppressive. My Victorian maternal great-grandparents had fourteen children that survived childhood, and one of my great aunts told me that great-granddad used to sit at the table at mealtimes and maintained order over this large brood with a […]
Time Travelling With Kids 