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"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…"
"The journal whose modest first eight-page issue appeared on 17 January 1902 has been a key influence on, as well as record of, contemporary culture..."
An essay introducing part four of the acclaimed series within Gale Primary Sources
Relations between Britain and China, whilst increasingly fraught throughout the nineteenth century, generated both intense animosity and commodity desirability. A British desire to have agency in China and China's sustained independence proved to be highly problematic.
"From the outset of the war Punch defined itself as a source of patriotic entertainment. During the conflict Punch drew on its archives to publish…"
"The succession, under the terms of the Act of Settlement (1701), of the Elector of Hanover (George Augustus) to the throne of Great Britain and Ireland…"
Case Study: "I have used Punch on a second level module entitled "Research Methods for Media, Culture and Communication" as part of a BA (Hons)…"
"A seemingly endless supply of boxes, each filled with papers to be carefully analyzed, can be a daunting sight. It is still more daunting when those boxes are…"
"The first decade and a half of the ILN’s life coincided with the slow, piecemeal process by which the British Museum took its modern shape…"
"Under the title “Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century,” the archive includes the contents of the British Library’s Private Case, plus…"
"The tentacles of Britain’s Indian Empire stretched far beyond its nominal frontiers, which in any case expanded throughout the nineteenth century…"
"In many respects, James II and VII's relationship to Scotland was the most interesting. His interrupted sojourn in Edinburgh as Duke of Albany…"
"By the beginning of 1689, James II and VII and his queen, Mary of Modena, had fled to France where Louis XIV put at their disposal the castle of…"
"Arguably, America’s emergence as an economic superpower was marked by the organization of United States Steel in 1901. This event projected America to…"
Ever since it was launched in 1986, The Independent has enjoyed a reputation for quality and innovation, something Andreas Whittam-Smith and his two co-founders, Stephen Glover and Matthew Symonds, made as a guiding principle when they conceived the idea of a new, upmarket British newspaper.
"The formal beginning of Anglo-Ottoman relations dates from the correspondence between Elizabeth I and Murad III in 1579 which led in May 1580…"
圣智学习集团旗下的Gale公司致力于把英国大英图书馆收藏的印度事务部档案(India Office Records) 中有关中国的部分数字化,以便更好地促进中国近代历史研究。这些资料是英属印度时期英帝国在中国西南边疆、西北边疆等边疆地区活动的历史记载,反映出中国近代民族国家建构过程中外部的历史环境及其对近代中国形成的影响。
"During the nineteenth century, there was a high rate of internal migration in Britain. The vast majority of moves took place over short distances, with people…"
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"Nineteenth-century leisure and sport evolved in a culture dominated increasingly by the idea of work, both as an economic necessity and a moral imperative…"