This open air museum was opened in 1944 thanks to the vision of its founder, Dr Isabel Frances Grant.
Fruit of the vision of the founder, the museum was opened in 1944.
Blists Hill Victorian Town is a full scale and functioning replica of life as it was a hundred years ago.
Blists Hill is a complete Victorian age town, recreated in every detail and activity.
Originally built to test iron age building techniques, the roundhouse in Woodview Farm is used for educational purposes.
Woodview Farm Iron Age roundhouse was built to test ancient building technology and materials.
Park in The Past is an ambitious plan to restore an old sand and gravel quarry near Hope, in Flintshire to create a unique ancient environment based on the 1st Century AD - at the very moment when the Roman Legions arrived, bringing with them new technologies and a new culture - changes that some call the beginnings of our Nation State.
I am an avid practitioner of traditional living skills and primitive technology of all kinds and have followed this interest into the academic field of Experimental Archaeology, in which I hold an MA in Experimental Archaeology and a PhD on the ‘Microscopic Analysis of Prehistoric Tanning Technol
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