{"id":5675,"date":"2013-10-08T13:17:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T13:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.britishportraits.org.uk\/?page_id=5675"},"modified":"2013-11-06T12:22:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T12:22:53","slug":"heroes-and-villains","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.britishportraits.org.uk\/resources\/toolkits\/how-to-develop-learning-programmes-and-audience-engagement-with-portraits\/themes-around-learning-with-portraiture\/heroes-and-villains\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroes and Villains"},"content":{"rendered":"
One person’s hero can be another’s villain so this theme is not as black and white as it may seem. You may have an obvious villain in your collection – perhaps someone who was jailed, transported or even hung but did the crime merit the punishment? You may have an obvious hero but were his \/ her motivations so heroic?<\/p>\n
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If you have portraits of well known figures, whether contemporary or historic, this could be a chance to look at how history judges them and invite people to agree, disagree and add their own judgements.<\/p>\n
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