Kate Astbury has been working with school pupils aged 9 and 10 as part of a scheme to teach them research skills. The pupils had a day at the University of Warwick where they learned how to evaluate historical sources and where they were introduced to the collection of Revolutionary prints held at Waddesdon Manor (see http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/french/research/previousprojects/revolutionaryprints)

The pupils particularly enjoyed hunting for the hidden images of the royal family in prints from the post-Terror period.

They then returned to school to undertake their own research projects. They were asked to

• Work in pairs to take one event or theme of the Revolution and examine how the prints can be used to reflect what people felt at the time
• Present their findings as a story board or a newspaper front page or a news bulletin or an essay. Pupils from Allesley Primary School , Coventry, produced the stop animation video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM9en0m87pU ) using Lego figures.

You can see more about the Revolutionary prints in a video made by Dr Astbury: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/knowledge/culture/revolutionprints