{"id":542,"date":"2014-11-12T08:44:40","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T13:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=542"},"modified":"2019-07-25T17:38:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T17:38:07","slug":"unravelling-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2014\/11\/12\/unravelling-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Unravelling Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite classes (out of the four that I am taking) is named: <strong>Unravelling Britain: British History Since 1801<\/strong>. &nbsp;Overlooking the intimidating vastness of the title when I selected this course, I was extremely excited to learn a little more about this place that I am calling home for just over three months. &nbsp;And so far, it has not been a disappointment. &nbsp;From the power points to the seminar discussions, I am always enthralled. &nbsp;Now despite how nerdy that made me sound, I am always amazed by how much &#8220;stuff&#8221; I do not know about when I am listening in class. &nbsp;From characters like Sir Robert Peele to details about the Indian Mutiny. &nbsp;I feel so much more enlightened by learning about the places around me and why they are important. &nbsp;It&#8217;s almost as if my class is a big quick tour guide to the United Kingdom and when I go adventuring out into the city I get to apply that new knowledge. &nbsp;It is one thing to go visit places like Westminster Abbey and listen to the audio guide tell the major key facts, but it&#8217;s another to learn a bit of its connecting history from a British professor who mentions facts that I would never learn from the audio guide. &nbsp;However, not every lecture is fun and dandy, there are days where I feel extremely left out because I did not grow up learning the ins and outs of British history like some of my fellow classmates. &nbsp;Obscure references and British humor is often lost on my friend Lindsey (also an American) and me, although, we have gotten significantly better at knowing when to laugh at a &#8220;funny&#8221; British joke! &nbsp;The lead professor (we have multiple lecturers over the semester) is also my seminar leader; his name is Dr. Robert Saunders. &nbsp;He is an amazing lecturer and I admire his ability to not make the associate students feel left out. &nbsp;There are five Americans out of thirteen students in our seminar group, so he will try to make a comparison or analogies that relate to the U.S. to encourage us to contribute. &nbsp;What I find the most fascinating from this class is how my knowledge of American history during certain time periods overlaps with the British history. &nbsp;I hope to continue to learn about the Victorian era and the British empire in a way that heightens my &#8220;tourism&#8221; here in London to beyond just a typical experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite classes (out of the four that I am taking) is named: Unravelling Britain: British History Since 1801. &nbsp;Overlooking the intimidating vastness of the title when I selected this course, I was extremely excited to learn a little more about this place that I am calling home for just over three months&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qmul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/274"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18218,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions\/18218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}