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"During the nineteenth century, the British Empire expanded greatly in terms of size, population and wealth. By the end of the century…"
"Perhaps The Times Literary Supplement should have been renamed Survival, the title of the fictional wartime literary magazine…"
"Cartoons satirizing both fashion and courtship are frequently intertwined in the pages of Punch as both subjects highlight confusing and rapidly shifting…"
"The history of British imperialism during the nineteenth century describes a process of expansion and consolidation, its success all the more remarkable for its…"
"Throughout the nineteenth century, periodicals published both in Britain and in the colonies featured aspects of the imperial experience. Before the 1850…"
Click to read Moira Goff's essay about the Burney Newspaper collection at the British library. Learn about the history and collections.
"Historically, the foundational principles and anatomy of 18th century British foreign policy are embedded within the broader, evolving international…"
During the seventeenth century Portugal had faced severe challenges. Much of its eastern empire had been lost and, although independence from Spain had been declared in 1640, a prolonged war had followed that only finally came to an end in 1668.
"One of the most striking phenomena of the early modern period was the rise and then the decline of Spain between the late fifteenth and the late seventeenth…"
"Rochford was an interesting individual. He was a musician who loved the theatre and counted the actor David Garrick and the playwright Beaumarchais…"
"The expansion and then fragmentation of the Habsburg domains during the sixteenth century presented English diplomacy with its greatest challenges…"
"At the beginning of the nineteenth century, sport garnered little coverage in the press. However, with a modern sporting culture emerging in Britain...".
The first four issues of the ILN do not contain formal advertising as such. This was probably because Ingram had not approached an advertising agent (perhaps surprisingly, agents had existed since at least the 1790s). But if we think of advertisements less as a form than as a type of communication…
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