Time travelling Hackett's illustrated snapshot of the past
Delightfully illustrated panels incorporate up to 12 facts a page in chronological order from 1400AD. The facts are taken from science, politics, history, music and art, and there is also playful trivia, giving a rounded snapshot of the past.
While working as the Irish representative for the Physics Institute, Hackett came across a poster made by children at a conference in Switzerland. This innovative timeline inspired her to produce a similar poster for Irish primary schools. “You had dates with famous physicists such as Einstein and Galileo,” she says, “but when I looked a little closer there was a little picture of Beethoven with his name and birthdate and when I looked closer again I realised this was a physics timeline in context. So it was showing you what else was going on in major fields: space exploration or the arts or music. And I just adored it.”
