Week 26: Whose story?

We catch up with Stevenson on the Buffalo this week who is worried about the 50 children who seem to be allowed to ‘run wild’ onboard. Stevenson thinks that the children should be provided with some form of education during the voyage. Not everyone onboard agrees with Stevenson’s view but it is his perspective that we are able to read about this week. How would other passengers write about the children? Were they really ‘running wild’ and what does Stevenson mean by this?  This week we will look at how  primary sources such as diaries help us to find out what happened in the past through one person’s eyes. If other people have another side of the story to tell, how can we find out about it? How do people remember and pass on their experiences from the past and what happens when people have conflicting stories and memories of the same event?