Welcome to our collection of contextual essays covering business.

To support libraries, researchers, and educators, we regularly commission academics to write contextual essays that explore topics using our digital primary source archives.

These essays relate to themes from advertising novels in early modern newspapers to analyses of consumerism in nineteenth-century America: take a look at our essays below.

Advertising

Amy J. Lloyd, University of Cambridge

From British Library Newsapers

Advertising in the Illustrated London News

Andrew King, Canterbury Christ Church University

From the Illustrated London News Historical Archive

Advertising Novels in the Early Eighteenth-century Newspaper

Siv Gøril Brandtzæg, University of Science and Technology

From Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Nichols Newspapers Collection

Business, Bribery and the Broadsheets

James Nye, King’s College London

From The Telegraph Historical Archive

Consumerism and Consumption

Nancy F. Koehn, Harvard University

From Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers

Corporations and Big Business

Charles W. Carey, Jr., Lynchburg College, Central Virginia Community College

From Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers

Mining and Extraction

Richard P. Mulcahy, University of Pittsburgh at Titusvill

From Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers

The Financial Times: A Financial History of the Last 120 Years

Richard Roberts, King's College London

From the Financial Times Historical Archive

The Financial Times: Landmarks in History

Richard Roberts, King's College London

From the Financial Times Historical Archive

The Financial Times: Scandals and Debacles

Richard Roberts, King's College London

From the Financial Times Historical Archive

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