Make Your Mark! Workshop: Writing Through the Ages

Before keyboards, children can try clay tablets and wax

Children aged six and over can try the tools and techniques that came before keyboards and pens at this hands-on Cirencester History Festival workshop. They can press marks into clay tablets, smooth messages into wax and use a quill to see how writing once worked.

The two-hour drop-in session is aimed at curious young makers, and each child must be accompanied by an adult. It takes place in Cirencester Library during the festival's family programme.

The library has a level accessible entrance, a lift to the first floor and an accessible toilet on the ground floor. Waterloo Car Park is the nearest car park, and the library also notes a nearby bus stop and bicycle racks.

Free entry. Drop in, no ticket required.

Wednesday 28 October 2026 · Cirencester Library, The Waterloo, Cirencester, Gloucestershire GL7 2PZ · 10:30am to 12:30pm