{"id":137,"date":"2018-06-15T14:53:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T13:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ageofrevolution\/?page_id=137"},"modified":"2018-06-15T14:53:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T13:53:27","slug":"ben-macready-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ageofrevolution\/biogs\/ben-macready-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Macready"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I undertook an undergraduate degree in History at the University of Kent between 2015 and 2018. I had a terrific time and could not recommend the university more strongly. Though I have graduated, I decided to continue acting as an Age of Revolutions Ambassador for the university by contributing a monthly \u2018Revolutionary Figures\u2019 column which you can find on this blog (to follow).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-106\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ageofrevolution\/files\/2018\/06\/Ben-Macready-300x220.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ageofrevolution\/files\/2018\/06\/Ben-Macready-300x220.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ageofrevolution\/files\/2018\/06\/Ben-Macready.png 610w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My primary areas of interest are Napoleonic and Russian history. I find Revolutions conceptually fascinating, as I feel that the social upheaval they bring about is the real core of what makes history interesting. Specifically I find the gulf between intention and outcome over the course of Revolutions thought-provoking.\u00a0 For example, how ideas which were designed to make the world a better place can be used to justify repression.\u00a0 Such as how Rousseau\u2019s ideas were misrepresented by the Jacobins in order to justify the Terror.\u00a0 During my time as a student at the university, I went on the Age of Revolutions trip to Waterloo and found it a wonderful way of taking our abstract historical knowledge and placing it in a real world context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I undertook an undergraduate degree in History at the University of Kent between 2015 and 2018. I had a terrific time and could not recommend the university more strongly. Though I have graduated, I decided to continue acting as an Age of Revolutions Ambassador for the university by contributing a monthly \u2018Revolutionary Figures\u2019 column which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ageofrevolution\/biogs\/ben-macready-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ben Macready<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51227,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ageofrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ageofrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ageofrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ageofrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ageofrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ageofrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ageofrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/137\/revisions\/138"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ageofrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ageofrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}