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Jordan started following the work of David Nye, University of Southern Denmark, Center for American Studies.
Jordan started following the work of Roger Neil Barton, University College London, Bartlett School of Architecture, Building, Environmental Design & Planning.
Jordan Still have work to do on the Mechanics' Institutes paper, but I'm thinking about a new topic. I have been kicking around the idea of doing a bit of research on William Blades (1824-1890). Blades was... more
Alumnus, Graduate School of Library & Information Science
Thesis Title: Improve the Moment : Mechanics' Institutes and the Self-Help and Self-Reliance Movements in Mid-Nineteenth Century Britain and Northeastern Urban America
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Kathy Wisser
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What I am most interested in at the moment is the impact of public libraries on the intellectual development of working-class political movements (i.e. Chartists and related groups) in the 19th and 20th centuries. When institutions like the British Library began opening their reading rooms to the working public, there was an upsurge in political thought and organization. I am interested in the roots of these movements, their associations with libraries and reading rooms, and the effect they had on their countries. Were these rooms simply a Victorian 'betterment' environment (as perhaps seen in the Mechanic's Libraries in the US) or a genuine haven for further education outside the more common Pub Library for the working-class?
I am currently working on some research tracing the rise of literacy during the Celtic Tiger period of modern Irish history. In other regions, literacy increases have led to revolution whereas in Ireland, the major revolutionary movements occurred prior to the dramatic rise in literacy. Where this will lead, I am not wholly certain.
I am also working on a potential Ph.D thesis topic related to my undergraduate thesis, "'Patriots of India, Your Cause is Identical With Ours:' Intellectual and Political Connectivity Between Indian and Irish Nationalist Programmes." I am not positive that this will be what I eventually write about, but in a preliminary meeting with University College London, we discussed the possibility of continuing the line of research.
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