At the heart of an area that was bombed during air raids in the Barrow Blitz, Barrow Library (helped by co-located services at Cumbria Archives) will be engaging young adults, communities of interest, and specific neighbourhoods to look back at what freedom meant for people living in Barrow during 1945 as the Second World War ended, exploring what powered young people’s hope back then and what powers hope today for them today as changemakers of the future. Participants will work alongside a professional Comic Artist to help realise ideas visually through the medium of comics, developing skills in storytelling, collage, drawing, and creative writing.