About Company 'K'

Company ‘K' is a group of historians and historical interpreters who have presented events based on the stories of British people from the 18 th century, through the mid-Victorian period and the late 19th and early 20 th century.

The group consists of actors, teachers, musicians and historians whose aim is to tell the facts interactively so that people can not only hear some great story telling but can also see what the participants really looked like and even ask them questions!

The group has worked with The Royal Armouries at Leeds 2002 and 2003, Denbighshire County council in 2004/5 and CADW, in 2004, where they presented the story of H.M.Stanley and The Battle of Shiloh to schoolchildren in St Asaph and Denbigh, Stanley 's hometown and at Denbigh Castle .

We researched and presented an event at Quarry Bank Mill, Styal, Cheshire
in 2004. We told the story of the Cotton Famine and of Jack H.Binns, a Lancashire cotton worker, who fought at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. A version was presented at the Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania U.S.A. in 2006.

In 2007 we have produced and delivered further sessions including the subject of ‘Slavery' for KS3 History.

The group presents events based upon the Crimean War, Slavery and the American Revolution. Work is in hand on ‘ Pirates' , ‘ The Great War' , ‘ The Levellers' , ‘Luddites' and ‘ The Industrial Revolution'

We present weekend events and our interpreters' tour schools to provide teaching staff with an exciting medium to stimulate students' interest and imagination.

For Schools
Company ‘K’ aims to assist teachers in the teaching of history by presenting sessions to groups of children based upon historical events, including subjects within the national curriculum. The sessions are intended to make the young people more aware of the subject and to stimulate them to seek information from the presenters.
The group, normally of up to four participants, will tell factual stories, in costume and interact with the young people asking and answering questions to reinforce their learning. Each subject will be backed up with basic classroom packs containing information and activities for the young people to expand upon the knowledge gained from the experience.
Company ‘K’ has presented sessions to schools in Denbighshire in 2004 and 2005 and has completed further sessions within schools in that county, the West Midlands and Derbyshire in 2006 and 2007. Events for 2008/9 are planned.

For Museums and Historical sites
Company ‘K’ has worked with museums and historical sites to present interpretations based on historical events or displays connected with those sites. The company has worked with existing interpreters and actors and aims to integrate their school-based projects with the museums and sites thereby using them to reinforce the learning gained in the classroom and to stimulate young people to visit the museums and site to see the events and displays.