The North Shields Heritologists have been working with a group of Year 9 History students to create an animation about Mary Ann Macham, an escaped slave who found her way from Virginia, USA and arrived in North Shields on Christmas Day 1831.

Yesterday they presented certificates to the students. If you haven’t already seen their stop-motion animation, here it is:

Funded by Historic England, Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), Arts Council England and National Lottery Heritage Fund. Thanks to Writer Sue Miller and Animator Katy Hackers for their help with this project.