{"id":157,"date":"2015-08-31T12:03:50","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T12:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fww\/?p=157"},"modified":"2015-08-31T12:03:50","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T12:03:50","slug":"thomas-baker-brown-fww-comic-and-anthology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fww\/2015\/08\/31\/thomas-baker-brown-fww-comic-and-anthology\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Baker Brown FWW Comic and Anthology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Newcastle University Library Education Outreach Team have teamed up with comic artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idcm.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Terry Wiley<\/a>, Lydia Wysocki from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appliedcomicsetc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Applied Comics Etc <\/a>and local secondary school students to explore the true war story of Thomas Baker Brown from North Shields, Tyne &amp; Wear, who served as a signaller in the First World War. Wiley used the letters,\u00a0documents, artefacts and other material in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/library\/special-collections\/collections\/collection_details.php?id=126\" target=\"_blank\">Baker Brown&#8217;s Archive<\/a>, which was donated to Newcastle University by his family, to create a comic telling Tommy&#8217;s wartime story. The comic\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">follows Baker Brown&#8217;s experiences as a soldier on the Western Front and in Prisoner of War camps, as a &#8216;typical Tommy&#8217; from our local area. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Students from four local schools (St John\u2019s Catholic School, Monkseaton High School,\u00a0Benfield School, and St Aidan\u2019s Catholic Academy) then visited Newcastle University to\u00a0work with the Baker Brown archive. They handled primary sources to understand\u00a0how to use archives and how to be an historian. They\u00a0also focused on how to plan,\u00a0make, and read old and new comics. The students were given\u00a0copies of\u00a0<i>True War Stories No.1:\u00a0Thomas Baker Brown<\/i>, both to share Thomas\u2019 story and to start\u00a0a discussion on how to write and draw an historical story. Then each group of students was given\u00a0a resources pack (reproductions) of extracts from materials from the archive and\u00a0instructions on how to use these to plan, pencil, and ink a one-page comic of their\u00a0own.\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">All students completed the task to a high standard and their comics are published in an\u00a0anthology of all comics from this project, entitled &#8216;Draw More Comics: The Thomas Baker Brown World War One Comics Anthology&#8217;. \u00a0All students will receive a free printed copy\u00a0of the book in the new academic year. The students&#8217; comics and Wiley&#8217;s comic are \u00a0all available to view <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/library\/services\/education-outreach\/thomas-baker-brown\" target=\"_blank\">online here<\/a>, along with free resources to use and share.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle University Library Education Outreach Team have teamed up with comic artist Terry Wiley, Lydia Wysocki from Applied Comics Etc and local secondary school students to explore the true war story of Thomas Baker Brown from North Shields, Tyne &amp; Wear, who served as a signaller in the First World War. Wiley used the letters,\u00a0documents, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fww\/2015\/08\/31\/thomas-baker-brown-fww-comic-and-anthology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thomas Baker Brown FWW Comic and Anthology<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5777,"featured_media":160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,10,14,30],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-archives","tag-creative-arts","tag-library","tag-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fww\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fww\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fww\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fww\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5777"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fww\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fww\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fww\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fww\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fww\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fww\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fww\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}