Ah – I’d forgotten all about the games at the McCord Museum, so a deep thank you to Ms. Lev for reminding me. Over at the Musee McCord page, you’ll find all manner of interesting historical information with no small amount of that devoted to the 19th Century. Two things that I did enjoy on this page, however, were their Victorian themed flash games – one all about manners for men and ladies in the Victorian era (I did rather well at this) and another that Ms. Lev pointed out to me, on the photographic activities and requirements of the age. With an animation style very reminiscient of Monty Python, these are quite good fun and suceed in being educational at the same time. I did find that the photography game froze on me twice, but I’ve had no such problems with the manners game.

Thank you, Ms. Lev – I’d forgotten all about these!