PUPILS at Beverley Minster CE Primary School have been following in the footsteps of a medieval printer who helped to put Beverley on the map.
The youngsters took part in a workshop which taught them how Beverley was at the forefront of printing in 1500, when there were very few books and most documents were handwritten.
They learned about Hugo Goes, who printed England's earliest surviv
ing wallpaper and set up his printing press in Highgate, near Beverley Minster.
With the guidance of historian Richard Kemp and graphic designer Julie Husband, the 10-year-olds recreated and produced their own medieval style wallpaper in a modern way, signing it in the same way that Goes did.
The event was the latest in a series of workshops in which historians, artists, teachers and crafts experts have been inspiring schoolchildren to learn about the fascinating guilds and crafts which were practised in medieval Beverley.
Primary school children have studied medieval shoes, hats, spinning and weaving, mills and milling, printing, music and musical instruments, inspiring their own artistic efforts. Many examples of these will be on show in an exhibition in Beverley Minster in April.
In the next few weeks, secondary school students will be studying armourers, glaziers, dyers and butchers.
Ideas from all the school workshops will be incorporated in the 39 street artworks of the Beverley Medieval Guilds and Crafts Trail, which is due to be completed in early 2010. It is hoped that the first installations of street artworks will take place this summer.
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