{"id":6069,"date":"2026-09-16T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T08:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=6069"},"modified":"2026-09-24T11:21:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T08:21:53","slug":"research-the-history-of-the-album-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/visual-literacy\/research-the-history-of-the-album-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Research the History of the Album Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An album cover can tell a story before you have even heard a single note. <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/ib-history\/albums\/\">For this project<\/a><\/span><\/strong>, each member of the class will be given a different album to investigate. Your challenge is to <strong>look closely at its cover, discover the history behind the image, and then explore the connection between that history and the music<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/ib-history\/albums\/mosaic.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An album cover can tell a story before you have even heard a single note. For this project, each member of the class will be given a different album to investigate. Your challenge is to look closely at its cover, discover the history behind the image, and then explore the connection between that history and&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/visual-literacy\/research-the-history-of-the-album-cover\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-visual-literacy"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4762,"url":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/year-9-history\/why-did-beatlemania-sweep-the-usa-in-the-1960s\/","url_meta":{"origin":6069,"position":0},"title":"Why did Beatlemania sweep the USA in the 1960s?","author":"Russel Tarr","date":"July 14, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Why did Beatlemania sweep the USA in the 1960s? 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