Week 15 and our seminar presentation.

This week's lecture on newspapers in London gave me some ideas about what I could do in London while I research for our seminar presentation. I would like to find out more about newspapers in London, and when they became popular with London's residents - as reading a newspaper in the evening or morning is something Londoners will have done for leisure and pleasure.

I have decided that I am going to go to London on my own on the 8th of February, I attempted to organize a group trip but this has proven difficult. I would like to visit fleet street, and some department stores, perhaps Carnaby Street. I have decided that since there are no exhibitions on at the Victoria and Albert museum that are relevant to our project, I no longer will go. I have also notified the other members of the group that I think we should use a different program than power point to make our presentation stand out.

The program I would like to use is called prezi : prezi.com
It will give our presentation more of an interactive feel, and hopefully will be more interesting for the audience - it's important that they learn from our presentation.
So far the other members on my group have not informed me of the areas they would like to research for our presentation, but I would still like to further research tea drinking, newspapers and coffee houses, also perhaps the theatre. These are all areas I must look into.

This week I found an notice in a 1731 newspaper about a coffee house opening as part of Kevin's task which has helped me understand the nature of places like this at this time:

I will bring this into class on Wednesday. Hopefully the members of my group will come to this seminar so I will have the chance to discuss our presentation with them.  In the meantime I will continue to research the topics that I have chosen. 

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1670coffee.asp

http://www.victorianlondon.org/index-2012.htm