New Resource Coming in Autumn 2024!
April 10, 2024 - Megan King in News & Blog Posts
We’re excited to share that our final resource, Billy Waters: Songs from the Shadows, is coming in Autumn 2024!
Designed to support history teaching around marginalised peoples, migration, disability, and cultures of poverty and performance in the Age of Revolution (1775-1848), this 20-page graphic novel and accompanying sonic resource creates space for students to debate:
• How do historians rescue missing voices from the archives?
• What interpretive decisions change how we see people in the past?
• How did London and Britain change in the late eighteenth century with new waves of international conflict and migration?
• How did a person of Black heritage from New York end up a veteran of the Royal Navy? And why was he celebrated and then exploited as a cultural figure and performer?
This project brings together new research by Mary L. Shannon with artwork by Selena Scott, historical pedagogy and design by Ben Marsh and Megan King, and soundscapes by Angeline Morrison and Aki Pasoulas.
Delivered by the Age of Revolution project (which shared the Peterloo Graphic Novel and Top Trumps), it will be available FREE to schools!
In the meantime, visit our object gallery to learn a bit about Billy Waters and his life and legacy.
Before we finalise our forthcoming Billy Waters resource, we’re seeking educators working with students aged 11-16 who would be willing to participate in short workshops during the summer term. We’re hoping to test some of the resource’s ideas and images and get feedback from teachers and students, so that we can make sure this is resource is accessible and easy to implement in the classroom. Please fill out this form to register your interest, and feel free to email us at [email protected] with any questions or concerns.
