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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
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Podcast Time!
Just had fun recording an episode of podcast ‘Famous People You’ve Never Heard Of’ @bluefire_tc (https://www.bluefiretheatre.co.uk/podcast) with artist @selenarosescott (https://www.selenascott.com/), Ben Marsh from @ageofrev, and host @lotski62 , about our collaborative Education project ‘Billy Waters: Songs from the Shadows’. Download the FREE resources for educators here:https://ageofrevolution.org/home/billy-waters/ Shout-out to @angelcakepie2, we’ll be including your fab song for the project, ‘Jump Billy’, in the finished…
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Camden FREE talk
Interested in London’s Black history? Join me for my FREE illustrated talk! ‘Finding Billy Waters: How A Black Camden Celebrity Found Fame in Regency Britain’ 21.01.25 6pm Camden Local Studies & Archives Centre 2nd Floor, Holborn Library, Theobalds Road, WC1X 8PA
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Jump Billy! 19/03/25
ON SALE NOW: ‘Jump Billy!’: celebrating English folk’s diverse history, through the life of celebrity Black Regency busker Billy Waters. Wed. 19th March 2025, Cecil Sharp House, London, 7.30pm INFO + TICKETS: https://www.efdss.org/whats-on/26-gigs/14401-jump-billy A celebration of English folk’s diverse history, through the life of celebrity Black Regency busker Billy Waters. A one-off concert to mark the anniversary…
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Billy Waters on tour…Manchester edition
Got treated like royalty this week when I visited Manchester Metropolitan University to give a talk on #BillyWatersIsDancing hosted by the Long Nineteenth-Century Network 📚📚📚 Bonus was seeing my friend Dr Rachel Nolan after waaay to long… 🥂
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New podcast episode!
A little while ago I sat down with History With Jackson to talk about #BillyWatersIsDancing (Yale 2024) …here’s the result! pod.fo/e/2763ab Find out more… https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300267686/billy-waters-is-dancing/…
Mary L. Shannon 