Coordination and development of a series of workshops teaching volunteers heritage skills to bring Jarrow Hall's Anglo-Saxon 'village' back to life.
What can 3H provide for you?
A deep desire to continue learning and contributing led to the founding of Heritage, History & Her (3H), a business and website that combines my academic knowledge and practical experience to create content and experiences that make research findings accessible. My work brings findings and research to life through engagement, living history, theatrical development, interpretation and content creation. Inclusivity and diversity are the core of what I do, and each project is personalised to the client.
My content focuses on identity, the heritage sector, social and cultural history, and historical making. It’s about sharing the complex ideas and nuanced understandings about the past with the public of today.
I remain a constant student, learning from others’ experiences and knowledge and would love to collaborate, so don’t be scared to get in touch!
Using the gendering technique that encourages consideration of intersectionality, I’ll help you find the stories and experiences that objects can share. Using collections as visual props for storytelling allows audiences to engage in a truly immersive way. By finding relatable connections and experiences, I can help you get across even the most complex of topics.
How can I help you with enagement?
- Engagement programme design and facilitation
- Workshop running
- Focus Groups and co-curation
- Forming community partnerships
- Volunteer Management and Development
- Training for staff and volunteers
They may not know today’s terms for it, or have it be part of their identity in the same way, but LGBTQ+ people have always existed - when you break from the norm, you have to create who you are yourself.
They may not know today’s terms for it, or have it be part of their identity in the same way, but neurodiversity has always existed - and people who don’t follow the expectations and rules of society tend to stick out from the norm.
Engagement allows you to fully adapt the offer to different audiences and reach new community groups, forming partnerships that can benefit your setting for years to come.
Intangible heritage is central to our understanding of culture and where ideas come from, and hands-on experiences really help connect to how the past was ‘real life’ – with daily tasks and experiences just like today.
I’m particularly interested in learning through making and how the trying endangered crafts can help both public engagement and expert knowledge.
In addition to the set workshops above, I’m interested in creating more workshops in collaboration with you and various interest groups. Especially relating to:
- Place-based history: exploring your local area and who lived there
- Dress history workshops: How and why styles change
- Early Women’s Suffrage
- Gender & Witchcraft
- Women during the First World War
- Heritage Skills
- Gender Theory
Interpretation
Interpretation
To me, interpretation is the method of how the information gets from the experts (be that museum professionals or the community with lived experience) to the public in order to educate them and have them share in this knowledge.
How does my interpretation experience help you?
- Develop an interpretation brief based on theoretical understanding and practical experience
- Curating items that can tell stories that more people will relate to
- Researching narratives to bring objects and concepts to life
- Writing and designing interpretation boards, labels and signs
- Adaptability to your interests and needs
What content can I create for you?
- Infographics
- Story Development
- Collaborations
- Articles
Spyglass Teaser Trailer
This video shows my ability to work within limitations – we didn’t want to give away any of the plot but we wanted to sell more tickets to the live performances. The video also had to be filmed around the set up for the performance – often having just 5 minutes before performers returned to rehearse. It also offers a brilliant teaser of the project’s soundscape.
These elements mean this style also works well for volunteer clips – where a video cannot be planned in advance, instead using what’s available.
The Spyglass Project was a collaboration between 17Nineteen and Theatre Space NE for a co-curated piece of theatre interpretation telling the stories of the church itself and Old Sunderland.
Becconsall Atmospheric Trailer
This video aimed to create the idea of Becconsall as a mysterious place waiting to be discovered. it leaned into the overgrown, natural feel of the site and turned this into a marketing point. It is carefully designed to avoid the public arriving at the site before we officially open but creates the idea in their heads to inspire future visits.
The site is an old Brickmaking factory and so many people are unaware of how green and thriving the site is – expecting a brownfield site.
This video was made as part of a marketing plan and content creation for Becconsall: Lancashire’s Living Museum and Heritage Park.
Crash Course in Changing Ideal Body Type
This video shows how I take complex ideas and make them accessible and interesting to the public. For example ‘crash course’ gives the video more of a mass appeal. I also had to ensure all images I used were copyright free and work out how to intergrate me talking with the slide show based format.
A version of this video was originally produced to promote my Stories Told in Stitches exhibition at the Museum of Cornish Life.
Research
Often, new ideas haven’t been done or tried due to fear of not meeting certain requirements or values—be this fitting a Master Plan or a fear that a community group may go too far off-piste. I will resolve this by researching the context around an idea and helping it adjust to wider aims. This could involve checking the accuracy of a reenactment or living history character or researching which ticketing software best fits your needs.
Events
Smaller organisations often experience confusion over events—they fall under Marketing, Commercial, Engagement, and Outreach. I will combine these elements to ensure a clear plan for their delivery. This also includes working with community partners, freelancers and local to form sustainable relationships for the benefit of most.
Funding Applications
My skill in translating complex ideas and concepts into language and references a certain audience group understandings, also applies to funders. I’ll take your drafts and reword them to fit the different interests and values of the funders so they realise the brilliance of your plans.
Select a case study below:
A project for Historic England to research listed buildings and sites in Plymouth to add colour and context to their significance.
An accessibility audit on how inclusive Saltram House and Gardens (NT) is to Neurodiverse and SEND visitors with Plymouth Heritage Praxis
A collaboration of 17Nineteen and Theatre Space NE to produce a play about, and performed in, Sunderland's parish church. Part of the co-curation and production team I added valuable historical context.
Stories Told in Stitches Museum of Cornish Life January – July 2022 An exhibition at the Museum of Cornish Life using their …