I have also read the 'Warning-piece to all married men and women being the full confession of Mary Hobry the French midwife' . She had an abusive husband, and murdered him. For this she was burnt at the steak. 

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Week 21

This week in the first presentation took place. I really enjoyed this and thought that it was clear that a lot of work had gone into it, and the activity they used was very interesting, and certainly got the class engaged in the topic. I liked the murder mystery element to the presentation in the last section, however I feel there were too many case studies. It has given me quite a few ideas about working on our presentation, and I did not like that the slides were in chronological order. Perhaps we could organise our slides in terms of themes.

This week our lecture was by Brian, and was on immigration. We did not have a Wednesday seminar as Bobby was away in Rome. I found it interesting to learn about the criminal statistics in Irish areas of London. For example in 1861, 16% of all men arrested were Irish, which is a large figure considering that Irish people made up a very small part of the population at this time.

London at night by Jason Hawkes

Week 19

I unfortunately could not attend the seminar this week because I was unwell, however I did read 'The writer's handbook - avoiding plagiarism'.

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Research Week

This week our group did not meet up, but I managed to visit London myself. I visited the department stores Selfridges and Liberty, visited Fortnum and Mason (which was fantastic) and did some shopping in Covent Garden. I also went to a coffee shop and watched a film at Leicester square. My trip was great and gave me a good insight into why people visited London for leisure.  I have started putting things together on Prezi. It is a little tricky to use, but I think I am getting there.

Things to think about now:
 The activity that our presentation must have. 
 Starting to compose the slides of our presentation.
 Getting books out of the Library. 
 Assigning topics to research to each member of the group. 



List of topics to research for presentation:
Coffee Shops/drinking tea Abigail
Parks and pleasure gardens Edward
Sports Emma
Animal bating
The theatre/cinema
Playing games
Gambling /prostitution
Shopping (for both food and clothes) and the rise of the department store Abigail
 Reading newspapers Abigail
Holiday taking, perhaps look at the guest houses/hotels of London

Michael Faraday (1791-1867)

In 1831, Faraday discovered electromagnetic induction, the principle behind the electric transformer and generator. This discovery was crucial in allowing electricity to be transformed from a curiosity into a powerful new technology.He was partly responsible for coining many familiar words including 'electrode', 'cathode' and 'ion'. He invented the Faraday Cage. Faraday cages shield their contents from static electric fields.
He also was one of the first scientists to notice the terrible state of the Thames and investigate it.