Date: Sunday 2 November 2014, 12:00 am
Venue: Yorkshire Museum
Find out what sort of kit a Legionary would have needed and have a go at making your own cut out Roman soldier. Then meet the Centurion as he tests your fitness for the Roman Army and puts you through your paces in a drill session.
Date: Sunday 2 November 2014, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Venue: York Castle Museum
Learn how to bake ‘Trench Cake’ in the museum kitchen this half term. There will be demonstrations and even a chance to taste this dense fruit cake which was baked by families during the war as a morale-boosting treat to send to soldiers at the front.
Included in museum admission.
Date: Sunday 2 November 2014, 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Venue: Yorkshire Museum
Discover more about life as a Legionary and handle real objects from the museum’s collections, which would have been used by Roman soldiers living in Eboracum (Roman York).
Running times: 11am-1pm & 2pm-4pm
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