Resources

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Follow Chatham Historic Dockyard‘s Disability Trailblazers Trail and meet Billy Waters – I loved collaborating with curator Suchitra Chatterjee on this project!

BBC Radio 3: Free Thinking

‘Busking and Billy Waters’

with Dr Mary L. Shannon

Podcast: The Mariner’s Mirror

‘The King of the Beggars’

Listen to me talk about Billy Waters and the Napoleonic Navy.

Who was Billy Waters?

Find out in this 2 minute video

Wellington Street

What happened when Dickens and his best friends – and worst enemy – took offices on the same street in Victorian London? Watch my talk on YouTube to find out…

Podcast ‘History With Jackson’

Listen to me talk about Billy Waters Is Dancing (Yale, 2024)

Open Access articles:

Mary L. Shannon, Black in New York City: The Story of Billy Waters – Yale University Press

Mary L. Shannon, English Folk Dance and Song Society – Billy Waters is Dancing

Mary L. Shannon, ‘Black Petty Officers’, Topmasts, the newsletter of the Society for Nautical Research (Nov ’24)

Mary L. Shannon, ‘Billy Waters and Dangerous Theatricality’, 19thc Theatre and Film