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"Printers’ ornaments are the decorative images that appear in printed books to embellish title pages, headings, chapter endings, and any otherwise blank spaces…"
"At the beginning of the nineteenth century, in 1800, Britain had been at war with France since 1793, and would remain so (with a small gap) until 1815…"
"The Searchlight Archive at the University of Northampton has, as its main collection, the material collected by the anti-fascist magazine Searchlight…"
"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.
"Delving into the 2,072 results between 1868-98, including the 81 cartoons, allows us to see that textual references to Gladstone far outstrip his…"
"It is clear that all post-Renaissance states were drawn to the concept of statecraft. At least in its English context, this statecraft drew its evidence from…"
In 1963, the ‘Burning Monk’ became an iconic image, and the context and circumstances can be further explored using various Gale resources.
In 1972, photojournalist Nick Ut took one of the most iconic images in the history of photojournalism: Phan Ti Kim Phuc, also known as "Napalm Girl". On this page, you can watch a video kindly shared by the Associated Press coverign this image, and some digital primary source material from Gale's collaborative archive with the Associated Press.
"The 'long eighteenth century', the period, at least in international relations, from the overthrow of James II (and VII of Scotland), in the Glorious Revolution…"
An essay on the Daily Mirror, which broke the mould in its fourt decade by moving away from conservative world-views promoted by other papers.
"The first African slaves appeared in the English colonies in 1619. Native Americans too were often enslaved in the seventeenth century, frequently being shipped…"
"The Nichols collection of seventeenth and eighteenth-century newspapers (1666–1737) encompasses a period about which there remains a lively debate…"
"As most researchers in the field of early modern British history are aware, the contents of the state papers…are to some extent the product of historical…"
It is taken for granted in twenty-first-century Britain that the media can significantly influence the ways in which we think about ourselves and the world around us. But how would readers of nineteenth-century newspapers have described themselves?
"The Canadian Gay Liberation Movement Archives was formed by dedicated volunteers who worked around the offices of The Body Politic…"
When Punch is mentioned in histories of the British campaign for women's suffrage it is often depicted as a univocal, and uniformly hostile, publication. In these books 'Punch's view' of women's suffrage is often represented by caricatures of suffragettes as unattractive spinsters.