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NYC Big Book Award 2025 recognises Billy Waters Is Dancing!
The NYC Big Book Award 2025 recognized Billy Waters Is Dancing: Or, How A Black Sailor Found Fame in Regency Britain (Yale, 2024) as winner in the category of History – World. The competition is judged by experts from different aspects of the book industry, including publishers, writers, editors, designers, booksellers, librarians and professional copywriters. Winners and distinguished…
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Billy Waters for Schools!
Honoured to announce that the Susannah Wesley Foundation has awarded us another grant to continue our work taking the story of Billy Waters to schools, museums, teacher trainers, and education providers around the country and abroad. Get in touch if you’d like to work with us! We offer FREE resources, training, and workshops for educators.
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British Association for Victorian Studies 2025
Speaking at the British Association for Victorian Studies 25 year anniversary conference in Oxford #bavs2025 was a joy…doing so with #TeamRoehampton from the University of Roehampton School of Arts & Humanities & Social Sciences was even better.
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Resources for Teachers
Had a super time today National Association for the Teaching of English (@natefeed.bsky.social) — Bluesky Conference talking with teachers about #BillyWaters! #NATE#teachersofenglish#BillyWatersIsDancing @yalebooks.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social @leverhulmetrust.bsky.social @lateteachers.bsky.social @ageofrev.bsky.social Find our FREE resources here: Billy Waters: Songs from the Shadows – Age of Revolution
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Book Prize!
Thrilled to be able to announce that #BillyWatersIsDancing @yalebooks_history @yalebooks has received Honourable Mention in the 2025 @BAVS_UK -Rosemary Mitchell Prize! 🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to Maria Damkjaer as overall winner and Paul Fyfe for his Honourable Mention – honoured to be in such fab company! 👏👏👏
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Workshop: ‘Finding Billy Waters: Black Lives in the Archives and New Resources for Educators
Ben Marsh, Angeline Morrison, Selena Scott and myself had such a great time doing this ‘Archives for Learning’ workshop the other week about our collaborative educational project Billy Waters: Songs from the Shadows – Age of Revolution It’s now on YouTube: so you can learn all about our FREE resources for educators (schools, archives, museums)…
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Happy Birthday ‘Billy Waters Is Dancing’!
Today is the 1-year anniversary of #BillyWatersIsDancing @yalebooks_history @yalebooks ! 🎉🎉🎉 Here are some memories of the launch @dauntbooks and the music from that night by the stellar @angelcakepie2 @hamilton_gross @clarkecamillerimusic and @cohenbraithwaite . 🎻🎻🎻 It’s been such fun seeing the book heading off out into the world: visiting schools to do workshops about our Billy Waters educational resources for @ageofrev has been a particular joy. So has been…
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Casting Call: Billy Waters
Dear friends, DYSPLA are currently asking for recommendations. Do you, or someone you know – know any London based black disabled performers/veterans who could play the famous street performer #BILLYWATERS. Please feel free to share this casting call with those you think may find it of interest. Casting Call Details: DYSPLA are currently casting for a…
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Maritime Greenwich
It was great to visit the University of Greenwich last week to speak about Billy Waters and Black sailors in the Regency navy. How else was I to travel but…by boat!
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Billy Waters in Greenwich
Suitably maritime location for this talk…hope to see you there! 👇 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/finding-billy-waters-or-black-sailors-in-the-regency-navy-tickets-1206722733179?aff=oddtdtcreator
Mary L. Shannon 