Post Up school students and veterans at the Mass Observation Archive. Picture courtesy BPB.
The Brighton Photo Biennial has launched a new online teachers' resource pack generated by a project with war veterans and young people as part last year’s Biennial, 'Memory of Fire: The War of Images and Images of War.'
Part of the Their Past Your Future (TPYF) Project, Post Up is an online, cross-curricular, teaching resource covering a range of 14 – 19 subjects including: Citizenship, Media Studies, Art & Design, Religious Studies, History, and of course, Photography.
The resource aims to support schools and colleges embarking on work that investigates young peoples’ knowledge and understanding of conflict in the 21st Century.
Artwork produced by Post Up school students with veterans. Picture courtesy BPB.
The resource includes a free downloadable teachers’ pack supported by podcasts of conversations between school students, veterans and members of the public; documentation of the Post-Up project itself including students’ poetry and artwork; material held at the Mass Observation Archive at the University of Sussex and the BPB blog with contributions from academics, journalists, photographers and artists.
The pack aims to inspire potential lines of enquiry, backed up by online material packed with high quality images and real life opinions and experiences.
Teachers can listen to podcasts of veterans chatting to school students with their class, analyse BPB 2008 photographic images of war, investigate WWII propaganda posters from the Mass Observation Archive, or read comments made by members of the public responding to questions about war.
There are two parts to the free resource. Post Up: The War of Images and contains the link to the Teachers' resource if you scroll down the page. This is also available as a direct link as Post-Up: The War of Images - A Resource For Teachers.
Find out more about the Mass Observation Archive at www.massobs.org.uk.
Launched in 2004, Their Past Your Future (TPYF) is funded by the Big Lottery Fund and administered by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council and uses historical sources, sites, museums, veterans and eyewitnesses of war to increase young people's understanding of history, commemoration, national identity and civic participation today. Find out more at www.culture24.org.uk/tpyf
