Tag Archives: Victorian

Gladstone & The Irish Question

Posted on November 2, 2010 by kenbaker

What was Gladstone’s level of success in dealing with the “Irish Question”? He looked at the whole complex of issues in a fresh way and that gave the Irish Catholics hope for the future. Evidence for The disestablishment of the … Continue reading →

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Sligo Potato Famine 1845-6 (4)

Posted on August 4, 2010 by kenbaker

A Poor Law had been introduced to Ireland in July 1838 which involved the division of the country into 130 “unions” consisting of a group of electoral divisions made up of a number of townlands. Sligo Union comprised 23 divisions … Continue reading →

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Analysing “Empire”: the Boer Camps

Posted on February 12, 2009 by kenbaker

The most significant threat to the British public’s acceptance of the Boer war came in its latter phase, with the 1901-02 scandal over the South African concentration camps established by the British army.

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The Guardian and the Boer War

Posted on February 11, 2009 by kenbaker

1900: A group of war correspondents in South Africa during the Boer War. Amongst them is a young Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965), middle row second from left, reporting for the Morning Post. The others include: back row, left to … Continue reading →

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A “letter to the Times”: the YouTube of the Crimea

Posted on February 4, 2009 by kenbaker

In their range and number, the letters to the editor during the Crimean War were truly extraordinary.

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CRIMEA: Analyse the probable effect of “participatory journalism”

Posted on February 4, 2009 by kenbaker

Here’s your essay title. 1. Read the article below on the Crimean War and the Freedom of the Press It includes the concept of “participatory journalism”. This phrase simply denotes the way that the Victorian public joined in the publication … Continue reading →

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The Crimean war and the Freedom of the Press

Posted on February 4, 2009 by kenbaker

The Crimean War produced the first generally acknowledged war correspondent:The Times’s William Howard Russell. But perhaps more importantly, the war also changed the way journalism itself functioned during wartime and the way readers participated in its reportage. Newspapers like The … Continue reading →

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Fenton and Robertson: Crimean Photographers

Posted on January 27, 2009 by kenbaker

This is Roger Fenton’s mobile dark room. His Crimean War photographs represent one of the earliest systematic attempts to document a war through the medium of photography. Fenton, who spent fewer than four months in the Crimea (March 8 to … Continue reading →

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What did the Crimean war mean for Europe?

Posted on January 20, 2009 by kenbaker

Here we consider the effect of the Crimean War across Europe in its balance of power, and (in greater detai)l upon the foreign and domestic policies in Britain

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Notes on Cardwell’s reforms (Effects of the Crimean War)

Posted on January 20, 2009 by kenbaker

Arguably, the greatest effect of the Crimean war came not from the advancement of new military technology, nor from medical or nutritional reforms but directly from the incredible inefficiency of its military organization. The failures of the army started to … Continue reading →

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