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"Crime, justice and punishment were major topics in eighteenth-century newspapers. Not only were they a constant and inexpensive source of content…"
"From 1933 to the outbreak of the Second World War, the persecution of Jews, the Roma, homosexuals, and political opponents to National Socialism…"
Just as they revolutionized work and industrial production, so too did the Victorians transform leisure, play and consumption. What did the older leisure landscape look like, how did such major changes come about, and how did they affect social life and experience?
"Sport for the well-to-do gentleman in mid-nineteenth century London and the Home Counties embraced news and comment on hunting, fishing…"
Chartism was both a political reaction to a series of setbacks suffered by the working classes during the 1830s, and a response to economic hardship. Chartism was only a mass movement in times of depression, with peaks of activity coinciding with troughs in the economy.
Stuart government in the later seventeenth and early eighteenth century rested upon a number of constitutional pillars re-established at the Restoration in 1660. They came under some strain in 1688, and in the 1690s, but essentially survived in the same form into the eighteenth-century.
During the nineteenth century, fire was perhaps the most severe environmental threat faced by Americans, especially in urban areas. Before the Civil War, hundreds of large fires destroyed property worth over 200 million dollars in the nation’s principal cities.
"V.S. Pritchett was to tell Alan Pryce-Jones that he had turned the TLS into "by far, far the best literary periodical in England". Never before had the paper…"
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"In 1872 the Reverend J. S. Brewer, classical scholar and editor of the great series of Letters and Papers of the reign of King Henry VIII, completed his…"
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"The first Illustrated London News gossip column was published on 16 March 1850 under the name Angus B. Reach and carried his initials through 15 November 1851…"
"It can be difficult to grasp the scale of newspaper publishing in the United Kingdom. Taken as a whole, the huge and diverse production of newspapers since 1700…"
"On the 14 of May, 1842, The Illustrated London News burst upon a world that had never seen anything quite like it. Not that there hadn’t been plenty of…"