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Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for À la recherche du temps perdu and Les plaisirs et les jours.
Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for Beloved and Song of Solomon.
Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for The Memory Police and Hotel Iris.
Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for My Brilliant Career and All That Swagger.
Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for The Great Gatsby and The Beautiful and the Damned.
Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for Blood Meridian and No Country for Old Men.
"I was, I believe, the last person to leave the newsroom of the New York Herald Tribune on April 23, 1966, the day it folded. I walked through the lobby…"
For the whole of its publishing history, Punch was consistently fascinated with developments in flight and.... Punch's first significant engagement with aeronautics occurs in 1843 (two years after the magazine's founding), in response to William Henson's proposed Aerial Steam Carriage.
An essay on the Daily Mail, which explicitly addressed women from its very first issue on 4 May 1896.
"The far right is best understood as a spectrum of groups and individuals who are often at odds with one another but hold in common some combination…"
"The American Revolution was a civil war in every sense of the word, a fratricidal conflict that divided men and women throughout the Empire..."
The Daily Mirror has a good claim to be Britain’s most successful and influential newspaper. During its heyday, in the middle decades of the twentieth century, it offered a tremendously powerful, if stylised, expression of left-of-centre working-class popular culture in a country dominated by conservative, middle-class voices. At its peak, in 1967, it reached the unprecedented daily circulation of 5.25 million copies, a figure that none of its rivals has come close to matching, or likely ever will.
"A peculiarity of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was that it was one of the very few communist parties that was never proscribed by the state…"
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.
"Looking back a generation in 1815, John Adams reminded […] Thomas Jefferson, that America’s revolution from Britain was not fought with gunpowder and…"
"From its first issue, published on the 14 of May 1842, the ILN insisted, by means of its opening editorial as well as by its evident practice, on the topicality…"
"Even before the First World War, the structure of society was changing rapidly in Britain. The march of the middle classes meant a new voice was…"
Explore our collection of contextual essays on various aspects of business, using various archives from Gale Primary Sources product.
"The invocation of humour often speaks to cultural anxieties or social concerns. As such, Punch consistently provides a counterpoint to and commentary on…"
"The seventeenth century saw the institution of monarchy at both its apogee and its nadir. The reign of Elizabeth is often considered its golden age…"