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… Read more

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… Read more

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… Read more

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… Read more

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… Read more

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… Read more

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… Read more

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! Read more

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 Read more