Labour

c. 2100–1500 BCE

Growing Up in Ancient Mesopotamia: Childhood, Learning and Work

Explore childhood in ancient Mesopotamia through family work, school tablets and small clay models, and discover what the evidence reveals about growing up.

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c. 2900–2000 BCE

Work in the First Cities: Crafts, Skills and Labour

Explore pottery, wool spinning and mudbrick making in ancient Mesopotamia, and the records that reveal how early cities organised skilled work.

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c. 1350–1550 CE

Coral Houses and Courtyards: Everyday Life in a Swahili Town

Enter Songo Mnara’s houses through evidence of food preparation, thread-making and water storage, and explore the unequal lives behind the walls.

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c. 1914–1918 CE

Life in the Trenches: How Soldiers Lived on the Western Front

Look beyond attacks to the work, shelter, correspondence and strain of trench service, drawing mainly on Canadian experience in the First World War.

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c. 2600–2500 BCE

Who Built the Egyptian Pyramids—and How Was the Work Organised?

Follow workers’ settlements, food supplies and administrative traces to understand the people and organisation behind the pyramids at Giza.

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