The Age of Revolution swept across the Americas and Europe, promoting patriotic rhetoric alongside anxieties surrounding change. Between 1650 and 1750 “revolution” changed from a lowercase word to an uppercase one, emphasizing a shift in thinking. England, having gone through its own “Glorious Revolution” in 1688, largely reacted to these new revolutions with fear. This response has been publicized in popular literature, such as Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, but what did the Irish have to say about these changing times?
Relations between England and Ireland have not been without their challenges. Filled with rebellions, battles and political strife, Ireland’s history leading up to the Age of Revolution is filled with English oppression. So how did they react when one of England’s other colonies revolted against it and won? Or how did they feel about the bloody Revolution just across the English Channel? I hope to find the answers to these questions by looking into Irish newspaper articles from 1750 to 1800.
My original inquiry was sparked by a search on Google Ngram. The change in the word from “revolution” to “Revolution” has been documented in the literature of the time. I wanted to look deeper into public opinion by looking at newspapers. The British Newspaper Archive, partnered with The British Library, has digitized 30,357,848 pages from the 1700s from both English and Irish newspapers. This resource allows for searches of specific people, places, events, and more. By using the advanced search you can narrow your field to specific time periods, newspapers, countries, and regions.
I
propose using this resource to analyze the emotions toward the Revolutions of
America and around Europe amongst the people of Ireland. This resource provides allows me access to
thousands of Irish newspapers from the time period. By narrowing my search to cover papers
between 1750 and 1800 I can make my search a little more manageable, especially
when I look at one or two newspapers, such as the Dublin Evening Post and
Saunders’s News Letter.
Some challenges to this project will be, while narrowing my scope, ensuring I have close to equal representation of different social classes. Research into the demographics where the newspapers are printed should help with this obstacle. Research from secondary sources will be necessary to provide further context that the newspapers could not provide. By combining primary sources and secondary sources I hope to represent Ireland’s reaction t the changing times of the mid- to late eighteenth century.
There are many forms of expression. Some people paint, some write poetry and others blog. The process of writing something and posting it in a place where it could possibly to be read by thousands of people can be exhilarating and terrifying. But when you feel you have something important to say or a dying need to share then a blog is a great place to do that. There are many different platforms to choose from, but WordPress is user friendly and very accessible. All you need to get started is an account and an idea.
The
idea is an important bit because shortly after entering your email, username
and password WordPress asks for the title of the site and the primary goal of
the site. The name you make up on your
own (ex. Digitize and Historicize), but there is a selection of goals to choose
from, such as educate, share and promote.
WordPress also asks for your comfort level (1-5) in creating a website
so the platform can cater to your needs, which is reassuring (I personally
chose 3). From here you give your site
an address and domain, probably along the same lines as your title (ex.
digitizehist.wordpress.com) and choose your plan. Starting out with a Personal plan gives you a
year free before you need to start paying, so you can get comfortable with
blogging before you need to fully commit.
Once that is done you have a functioning WordPress blog. Congrats, now
for the personalizing bits.
When
you first open your account you will be sent to your dashboard, where you can
create a new blog post, edit old ones, structure your blog, check the stats of
your blog, and a lot more. There are a
lot of tabs to go through so I’m going to take it from the top. The first tab on the left, below “My Site,”
is “View Site.” This tab is how you
access the public facing view of your website.
It shows what visitors to your site see from different views (computer,
tablet and phone), your site address and the option to visit the site.
Your
next tab is “Stats.” “Stats” shows the
traffic of your site, like the number of views, visitors, likes, and
comments. It also gives “Insights” of
your posts, like how much you have posted, your followers, tags, and monthly
and annual site stats. You can also view
your followers from here and add people to follow you.
The
“Activity” tab tracks your events, like when you posted, and what you have done
on your site, like edits. This tab kind
of functions like a timeline of your blogs life from creation to first theme
edit to first post.
The
“Plan” tab gives you access the other plans WordPress provides so you can
upgrade to a higher plan whenever it is convenient for you.
Now
you have reached the Manage tabs where you can click on “Site Pages” to edit
and view your published pages, like your Contact page that was automatically
created when the site was opened. The
“Blog Posts” tab functions the same as the “Site Pages” except for your posts
instead of pages. “Media” is where you
can upload media, such as photos, documents and audio. On this tab you can also make small edits
before your media is published.
Your
“Comments” tab is your control over the comments posted on your site. You can view all your comments, see pending
ones, and decide to approve or trash them.
“Feedback”
tab, to my understanding, is where you provide your own feedback of the
site. It looks like a regular post, but
when it is published it does not show up on your site. To be honest I have been playing with this
tab for a while and still do not know exactly what it is supposed to accomplish. If you discover any insight while exploring
then I welcome your feedback.
Moving
on, the “Portfolio” tab lets you create projects and posts on these
projects. The “Plugins” section gives
you access to the multitude of plugins you can attach to your site, such as a
Social Media Share Button. Many of these
plugins require a Business plan account.
The “Import” tab allows you to import content from other sites, whether that
be from other WordPress sites, Blogger.com or Wix.
Now,
after this long exhausted list of tabs, you can personalize your website using
the “Customize” tab. This tab directs
you to a page where you can change the theme, font, colors, add and delete
elements, attach widgets, and define your site’s identity. This is where you make your site your own
before you even start posting.
Once
you have customized your site to your heart’s content you can look to the
Configuring section to the “Share” tab.
Here you can connect your site to social media pages, such as Facebook
or Twitter.
Below that is the “People” tab where you can invite people to your team and together you can add to the website. “Domains” gives you the opportunity to change your site address if you decide it no longer fits your website. Finally, the “Settings” tab is where you can edit your site’s title, tagline, add an icon, adjust language, and manage your privacy settings.
Lastly if you did not find this post helpful to your journey to discover WordPress then there is a small question mark in the bottom right corner of your dashboard. You can type in your question about the site and it will try to provide an answer.
Launched February 10, 2004, Flickr is an online photo management and sharing resource for a wide range of people from amateur photographers to professional institutions. Over its fifteen years of existence, Flickr has evolved from a photo sharing site into the social media outlet it is today. There are a lot of tabs to go through so lets get started!
In order to begin you
need a Yahoo account. Do not worry if
you do not have one, simply use your personal email (Gmail, Outlook, Hotmail,
etc.) and Flickr will translate it into a Yahoo account for your login or you have
the option to create your own Yahoo account if you prefer. Once you fill out all your personal
information (name, email, password) and enter the confirmation code sent to
your email you are ready to get started sharing your photos.
When you first login
your are sent to the Home page, where you can start exploring your photo
interests by looking through all Flickr activity, people and groups.
To upload, click the
cloud-with-arrow icon (hencforth to be known as the “upload cloud”) in the top
right corner of the page. This will lead
you to the upload page where you can either click “choose photos and videos to
upload” or drag them from your desktop.
Once you finish dragging your photos onto the site you can rename, tag,
change privacy settings, and make other small adjustments before clicking the
blue Upload button. When your photos are
uploaded you will be sent to your Photostream page.
At the top left of every page are your main drop-down tabs; You, Explore, Create, and Get Pro. The You tab brings you to your personal page and functions like a blog Dashboard. From here you can access your About page and view your Photostream, where you were sent after uploading your photos and basically the library of the photos you have uploaded.
You can put together Albums, view your Faves or favorite photos you have found while looking through Flickr. You also have the option to edit and create Galleries, which are different from Albums because they are made of your “Faves” photos instead of your photos. You can view Groups you are a member of or create Groups and discussions. The Stats tab is for Pro members and it allows you to track which of your photos are trending. The Camera Roll tab is where you can edit the privacy settings of your photos.
Back to the top left
tabs, the Explore tab leads to Trending and the Best Shot of 2018. Explore is similar to the Flickr Home page
because it also presents you with multiple photos that may or may not interest
interest you.
The Create tab at the
top leads to Blurb, which is a photobook application partnered with
Flickr. The Get Pro tab is the startup
page for Flickr membership plans.
Instead of having a free account you can set up an annual or monthly
payment plan that comes with special benefits.
By using the search bar,
located on the right top side of the screen near the upload cloud, you can look
for photos, people or groups. For
example, searching “History” will result in multiple images, organizations and
groups. You can decide to Follow People
or Join a Group.
The pages for People are
set up the same as yours, but Groups have some differences. In a Group, discussions can be facilitated. In the case of Flickr: History Group,
discussions involve interactions between members conversing on different subjects,
ranging from specific dates in history to time travelling. This is a great way for members who are not
photographically inclined to participate in dialogue on Flickr.
Flickr allows verbal and
visual communication between its users.
Whether they are sharing their art or conversing over subjects of common
interest. It is a common ground between
amateurs and professionals to share visions.
My name is Kaylee Redard and
I am a first year Public History Masters student. I am from Reading, Massachusetts, my favorite
color is blue and I have a cat named Rogue.
I went to Franklin Pierce University for my undergrad, graduating with a
Major in European History, double Minors in Public History and English, and a
Women in Leadership Certificate. Before
finding the Public History world I wanted to be a teacher so I started in
Education, but soon realized the classroom was not where I was meant to
be. I still love to teach, but I found
education in museums is where I feel most at home. I enjoy the freedom of informal learning that
Public History provides visitors, young and old.
My internships at the
Longfellow House – Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site and at
Susan B. Anthony’s Birthplace Museum gave me some experience with visitor
education programs. At the Longfellow
House I helped with the Junior Ranger program and at Susan B. Anthony’s I
created some educational interactive sheets for visitors to use while they
visited the house. It was at the Susan
B. Anthony Museum that I first dabbled in digital history. The museum is very involved with the
community and its history and I was instructed to find historic places,
describe them and geo-locate them for an app they wanted to create. Laying the groundwork for this project was
very exciting and different from other forms of education I had previously
done. Through this app visitors could go
beyond Susan’s home to the world around her.
Now I am the Digital Intern
at the National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon and
also a Visitor Services Associate at the new National Law Enforcement
Museum. Both sites use digital methods
to spread knowledge and interact with their visitors. Digital history is a great way to connect
with visitors; especially in the technological world we live in today and I
look forward to learning all I can.
