'The best part was making the books, because they turned out rather professional'
We also played a new game with new Youth Participation Volunteer, Laura. Abs was blindfolded and we had to see if we could steal Shauna's noisy keys before she noticed
We also looked at words we can use to describe how we feel about things. These words can be used in the photo diaries to explain how we felt during workshops and not just happy or bored
After lunch we met with Tracey Weller, Archive Learning Officer at the Museum. She told us about her research into Indigo, a plant that was grown all over the world, but was also grown cheaply in America on plantations. The indigo was made into cakes and transported to the UK on merchant ships to make huge profits. It was then used to dye materials blue, including the Royal Navy uniform. Tracey had original archive material to show us.
We started by looking at maps, thinking about where materials come from
We got to see manuscript items from hundreds of years ago that told us about Indigo and life for merchant sailors (some had very neat hand writing and they ate a lot of meat!)
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