Over the years, the group has made stoves using mud,bricks,sheet metal,clay, ceramics and old oil drums.
VOA: special.2010.02.01
There is the sociology section, the science section, oldsheet music and menus, and you can go to the periodicals room anytime and read old issues of the New Statesman. (And you can whisper loudly to a friend in the next carrel to get the hockey scores.) To see that that is so is at least to drain some of the melodrama from the subject.
Never mind the WWII-style evacuee dress we've also just had to buy for the class assembly - I remember going to school wrapped in an old dust sheet to be a shepherd.