HOH create resources for Local Museums

Even though we haven’t been able to visit schools with our history workshops for over a year because of the Covid crisis, the Hands on History team definitely haven’t been sitting on our hands doing nothing! Luckily, some local museums have commissioned education resource boxes from us.

The latest box has been about Smugglers!

We have made some really strange things such as a wood and leather overshoe for a horse. This would muffle the sound of the hooves as the smugglers spirited their contraband away at night from the boats that brought these illegal luxuries over from France. We’ve included a picture which shows some of the other unusual objects. Can you guess what they are?