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  • I always loved english and and particularly reading when I went to secondary school, which was like high school, my favorite subject quickly became history.

  • The thing that I loved about history when I was a kid was the stories.

  • I think it's like one big story and the people that we talk about in history are like characters, it teaches you so much about the world and about the way people see each other and the way people behave.

  • So it's just endlessly fascinating.

  • Every type of history.

  • My favorite is Battle Abbey in Sussex because it is the scene of the Battle of Hastings.

  • There is a connection here for me as well because I first learned about the bayou tapestry and the bayou tapestry arguably is one of the first ever english comics.

  • My advice to any kids going to historic site tomorrow would be to read a tiny little bit about it before you go just even a paragraph or if you can't ask a grown up to just to spend five minutes telling you about the coolest things about it.

  • Then when you go imagine what it would have been like to live back in those times.

  • I think it's, it's really fascinating just to put yourself in those shoes or those sandals and those roman books.

  • My top tips to create your own comics track is make yourself a character and give yourself a character name like we doing Beano depending on your name, get a letter that's the same as the first letter in your name and find a really good word that describes you and your personality.

  • The second thing to do is to create a really simple story, you need three things and people forget this, but you need a beginning a middle and an end.

  • The beginning.

  • You introduce your character, you introduce yourself, you talk about what they like to do, you can do this really quickly.

  • The middle is when something happens to your character usually, and the easiest way to do this is to think about a problem they face and how they might overcome it.

  • The story ends when you resolve this and everything's back to normal again, or maybe it isn't back to normal, maybe everything's going off in a whole new direction, and that's where the story continues.

  • And the final thing to do, if you wanted to be a comic strip is to use stick people to very quickly tell your story.

  • You just need to draw squares, simple stick people little lines and you cut the words down to what the characters say, Anyone can read a comic because the pictures tell you what is happening first and foremost, and then you add the words as an extra thing.

I always loved english and and particularly reading when I went to secondary school, which was like high school, my favorite subject quickly became history.

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