How we lived
Everydaylife
Life as people lived it, told by the people: what they studied with, cooked on, wore, travelled in and sang. Readers' own photographs and memories, a question every week, and a few pictures from the archive to start the conversation.
School
Classrooms, uniforms, slates and exercise books, exams and school days.
66 items
Home
Houses and compounds, kitchens, lamps, water and the things in every parlour.
129 items
Food & market
Markets, rice farms, palm oil, fishing and what was cooked at home.
215 items
Dress
Country cloth and gara, church and wedding clothes, uniforms and city fashion.
69 items
Getting around
The railway, ferries and canoes, lorries, poda-podas and the roads between towns.
114 items
Music & fun
Songs and bands, dances and masquerades, lantern parades, football and games.
58 items
Money & work
Coins and notes, shops and stores, trades and crafts, farms and mines.
124 items
Faith & ceremony
Churches and mosques, societies and initiations, weddings and funerals.
112 items
Buildings & architecture
Board houses, verandahs, churches, mosques and the old stone buildings of the colony: how Sierra Leoneans built and lived.
128 items