Personal Narrative: My Interest In Georgian Britain

My interest in countries and how they are run started at an early age. As a small child, my encyclopedic knowledge of every world flag was my party piece! Politics allows me to apply that same zeal to seek understanding into complex political questions in the modern world.
An active individual in the British political scene, I recently attended a Labour Party conference to pose pressing questions on educational policy to Gordon Brown. In order to broaden my knowledge of mainstream British political parties, I shadowed Newark MP and Conservative Robert Jenrick, sitting in on town council meetings, as well as assisting in surgeries and caseworking in the party office; Mr. Jenrick has since invited me to Westminster. I released an article on my ancestor, Lord Mayor of York, Sir Joseph Terry on Wikipedia, where according to a peer-reviewed process its quality was designated as being within the top 0.45% of all entries on the website. The project demanded a keen eye for research married with a personal interest in the subject matter. From all aspects of his life, including his untimely death a day before the

I was given free roam on any suitable area of research, and depending on the quality of my work, the museum would consider taking my ideas forward for a new exhibition. I decided to base my project around social issues in Georgian Britain. More specifically, I wrote a detailed report on how the Poor Laws and Vagrancy Acts affected both the lives of the homeless and the opinions of the gentry. My research was immediately accepted and I scored top marks on feedback to my school. I also participated in historically based 'mock trials' surrounding the British suffragette movement and sat in on debates regarding drug policy reform. In my own time, I'm an active member of its developing Youth Committee, suggesting ways to get young people involved in legal