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‘anonymously’ in order to garner support for a cause. This could be spreading a political message, trying to share information or giving a rallying cry for action among the people of the day.


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Today, we have social media – the same principles apply, but on a grander scale. At the click of a buton you can reach hundreds, if not thousands, of people in an instant. There have been many well-documented campaigns on Facebook and Twiter, from urging people to sign petitions,


50 February 2016


ORE than 200 years ago it was acceptable to publish literature


or sharing news of a health scare, to simply passing comment about a celebrity. The impact can be positive but, equally, it can be devastatingly negative.


Te impact can be positive but, equally, it can be devastatingly negative.


In 1803 a propaganda pamphlet was printed anonymously as ‘an address to the Eastern District of Stirlingshire: A response to the threat of invasion by Napoleon Bonaparte of Stirling’ – it was asking the people of Stirling to join together and fight to protect their country. At the time, the Peace of Amiens – a treaty between Great Britain and the French Republic – had collapsed aſter just one year, marking the only peaceful 12-month period during the French Revolutionary Wars.


During the Amiens peace treaty, the British government had held its army at 132,000 men, with 18,000 in Ireland, 50,000 within the country and the rest serving overseas.


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