{"id":357,"date":"2017-08-01T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T09:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/?p=357"},"modified":"2017-07-31T18:19:29","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T17:19:29","slug":"georgian-perspectives-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/?p=357","title":{"rendered":"Georgian Perspectives Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Announcing a new blog &#8216;Georgian Perspectives&#8217; launched by Louise Ryland-Epton, a\u00a0PhD candidate with the History department at The OU.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Louise writes:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I am a PhD candidate at the OU researching eighteenth century poverty, welfare legislation and the inner workings of the Georgian state.\u00a0 I wanted to blog because I have been spending a lot of time in archives recently and sometimes I come across things which whilst not relevant to my current research is maybe unusual, surprising or tragic.\u00a0 I am also interested in how history has parallels or resonances with what is happening today. \u00a0So one post deals\u00a0with the creation of an early soup kitchen in\u00a0a town which today has a food bank.\u00a0 These responses to food crisis are two hundred years but both have very similar objectives.\u00a0 A blog is great as it allows me to focus on individual stories which would not otherwise be told in an engaging way which I hope is interesting.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/georgianperspectives.wordpress.com\/\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/georgianperspectives.wordpress.com');\">Click here to visit Louise&#8217;s blog &#8216;Georgian Perspectives&#8217;.\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Announcing a new blog &#8216;Georgian Perspectives&#8217; launched by Louise Ryland-Epton, a\u00a0PhD candidate with the History department at The OU.\u00a0 Louise writes: I am a PhD candidate at the OU researching eighteenth century poverty, welfare legislation and the inner workings of the Georgian state.\u00a0 I wanted to blog because I have been spending a lot of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/?p=357\" class=\"more-link\" >Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Georgian Perspectives Blog&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-postgraduate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}