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Wendy Shearer

Storyteller, Author, Oral Historian

  • Storytelling
    • Schools
      • Schools Visited
    • Watch clips
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  • Oral History
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    • Past Events
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Tag: British Museum

Warriror Womain portrait by Charmaine Watkiss
June 22, 2023July 7, 2023Storytelling at Museums, Writing stories

Exploring the natural history of Jamaica

As part of my project work on Animating the Caribbean Collections, I visited the British Museum with Dr. Amara Thornton – historian […]

Wendy Shearer, Author entering the British Library archives
May 18, 2023May 30, 2023Consultancy, Writing stories

Animating Caribbean Collections at the British Museum

What’s in the archives? This week I had my first meeting in the belly of the British Museum Library and Archives with […]

Wendy Shearer storytelling at the British Museum
October 30, 2021November 9, 2021Past Events, Storytelling

British Museum event

African and ancient Greek Myths During half term at the British Museum, I was invited to tell stories from the African continent […]

Wendy Shearer storytelling at the British Museum
February 20, 2020October 7, 2020Past Events, Storytelling at Museums

British Museum

Wendy Shearer performing Greek myths from Homer’s ‘Iliad’ and ‘The Odyssey’.  There were over 200 people attending each day during half term […]

Under 5 year olds storytelling with Wendy Shearer - British Museum
October 24, 2019December 17, 2019Past Events, Storytelling, Storytelling at Museums

Little Feet at the British Museum

 

June 2, 2016June 2, 2016Myths, Storytelling

Greek myths

Bringing ancient Greece to life There’s a fantastic exhibition on at the British Museum until November 2016.  It’s called: The ‘Sunken Cities’ […]

May 31, 2016June 2, 2016Myths, Storytelling

Storytelling at The British Museum

Telling ancient Egyptian and Greek myths I recently had the pleasure of storytelling at The British Museum during an exciting evening of […]

Storytelling at the British Museum - Wendy Shearer
March 23, 2016August 22, 2019Myths, Past Events, Storytelling, Storytelling at Museums

Preparing to tell Ancient Greek Myths

I was thrilled when the British Museum asked me to prepare a series of stories for one of their evening events coming […]

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