Peggy Woodford (I have been checked by the Criminal Records Board to perform in schools)
Ages covered: 10, 11, 12 years
Area: London area preferably, but prepared to go further if the transport links are good.
Fee: (as recommended by the Society of Authors) – £150 per single session, £300 for sessions in the morning and the afternoon, plus travelling expenses.
I am currently giving an Interactive Slide Talk based on ONE SON IS ENOUGH, published 2006 by Walker Books. (400 pages) Reading age 10+
Interactive Slide Talk. lasts from between 45 to 90 minutes, depending on what schools want. If the children know the book, then a longer session works well.
Doing the research for this book was pure pleasure, as Turkey is such a beautiful, varied and fascinating country, with an exceptionally rich and vivid history. Using many sources as well as my own photographs, I have devised an interactive slide talk (with optional music) suitable for schools, showing images of the following topics of interest to children:
- Geography – pictures of Anatolian mountains, plains and hot springs
- Nomad tribes – vivid images of the way of life of the Yoruk nomad tribe of central Anatolia, plus their animals
- The Youth Levy (Devishirme in Turkish), the system of collecting boys to become slaves to the Sultan for life.
- The Turkish/Arabic karavanserai – the old system of travel and the wonderful vast stone buildings built in the 13th century known as karavanserai, where all travellers and their animals could stay.
- The Troupe of Acrobats and Dancers twin Osman joins in order to reach the city where his brother Iskander is a slave, in the hope that his troupe is chosen to perform in the Sultan’s Palace.
- The City of the Sultans – the palace, the pages, the system etc.
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN ARRANGING A SCHOOL VISIT, PLEASE CONTACT ME DIRECT. MY EMAIL IS peggywoodford
talktalk.net
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL ENDORSEMENT
Amnesty has endorsed ONE SON IS ENOUGH because it describes a form of slavery. I am on Amnesty International's speakers' list for primary schools.
One Son is Enough gives me a useful way to link and illuminate the subject of child slavery found in our world now with the one I describe. I use some of the images from my own interactive Slide Talk, with further material from Amnesty International’s own resources. Children define slavery in surprising ways and I have found very interested and full of comment during sessions.
The 200th anniversary of the Slave Trade Act, passed in March 1807, banning the trading of slaves anywhere in the British Empire, has awakened interest in the whole subject.
TO CONTACT AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL DIRECT,
Email: sctamnesty.org.uk
Or go to the Amnesty International Website at http://www.amnesty.org.uk
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