Of late I’ve been working with Birse Community Trust to help deliver an exciting and, to my mind, important project exploring the links between a small Aberdeenshire school and the transatlantic slave trade.
Here’s a link to an article all about it in the P&J. https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/tag/aye-it-was-aabody/
I’ve been working directly with the early years children to help them think about their school’s history and have put together a resource pack to support the school with projects about the local community over time, starting with the schools founder in the 1600s who we now know owned slaves in Barbados. I will also be helping a community group to produce some interpretation based on their research.
