How we lived
Everydaylife
The ordinary things: what people studied with, cooked on, wore, travelled in and sang. Old photographs from the archive, and memories shared by readers.
Question of the week · Music & fun
What music played at your house?
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School
Classrooms, uniforms, slates and exercise books, exams and school days.
14 items
Home
Houses and compounds, kitchens, lamps, water and the things in every parlour.
31 items
Food & market
Markets, rice farms, palm oil, fishing and what was cooked at home.
47 items
Dress
Country cloth and gara, church and wedding clothes, uniforms and city fashion.
8 items
Getting around
The railway, ferries and canoes, lorries, poda-podas and the roads between towns.
51 items
Music & fun
Songs and bands, dances and masquerades, lantern parades, football and games.
8 items
Money & work
Coins and notes, shops and stores, trades and crafts, farms and mines.
25 items
Faith & ceremony
Churches and mosques, societies and initiations, weddings and funerals.
37 items