{"id":13,"date":"2013-09-14T23:16:03","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T23:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/writingmatters\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2013-09-26T09:59:46","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T09:59:46","slug":"iain-stewart","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/writingmatters\/about\/iain-stewart\/","title":{"rendered":"Iain Stewart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am an intellectual historian interested in twentieth-century France and the histories of liberal and Marxist thought more broadly. My writing has been published in academic articles and book chapters, and I have also written for a popular French magazine. My current big writing project is a book based on my doctoral thesis: Raymond Aron and the Roots of the French Liberal Renaissance.\u00a0 You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.qmul.ac.uk\/staff\/profile\/4571-dr-iain-stewart\">visit my staff profile at QMUL here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For me, writing is not simply a product of my learning in a given subject; it is an integral part of the learning process. It is also a way of being part of a wider conversation with other people working in my field. On my many bad writing days I can find the whole process excruciating; on those fewer occasions when inspiration strikes, however, it can be quite exhilarating. I\u2019ll be using this blog to share my experience of the joys and pains of writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am an intellectual historian interested in twentieth-century France and the histories of liberal and Marxist thought more broadly. My writing has been published in academic articles and book chapters, and I have also written for a popular French magazine. My current big writing project is a book based on my doctoral thesis: Raymond Aron &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/writingmatters\/about\/iain-stewart\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iain Stewart<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":6,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/writingmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/writingmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/writingmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/writingmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/writingmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/writingmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/writingmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/48"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/writingmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/writingmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}