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"The Stuart Papers are a product of this crucial shift towards modernity. Technically speaking, they are the archive of the government-in-exile created…"
"On April 6, 1830, when formally establishing the Church of Christ, Joseph Smith, Jr., also announced that the Lord had commanded him…"
"The Searchlight Archive at the University of Northampton has, as its main collection, the material collected by the anti-fascist magazine Searchlight…"
Triggered by the works of Sir Walter Scott, a veritable craze for all things medieval swept through Britain. Stage productions based on Ivanhoe (1819) delighted audiences for decades, and Astley's Amphitheatre, London's first purpose-built circus, became the place to see staged tournaments.
An essay on the Herald’s content, and how it diversified in the early 20th century with women featured more prominently, albeit in heavily stereotyped ways.
"The story of slavery does not begin with European ships arriving on the African coast. Slavery was already prefigured by the history of social stratification…"
"State Papers Foreign offer much for an understanding of the development of the German states in this period. The key German states for scrutiny were…"
Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for The Relic and The Mandarin.
Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for The Ugly Duckling and The Emperor's New Clothes.
Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for The Fallen House and Runes.
Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for Isabel and the Devil's Waters and Bengal Nights.
"Digitised newspapers have become vital tools for historians. The availability of searchable online journalism, stretching back centuries…"
"Why did the Paris Herald […] come into being where and when it did? James Gordon Bennett Jr. had taken over his father’s New York Herald in the late 1860s…"
"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…"
"In the twenty-first century government has an almost obsessive interest in mapping social change. The seventeenth-century state was rarely interested in…"
"The weekly issues from 1900 saw a wide range of content and cartoon styles that celebrated the new century and exported English-British culture…"
"“The public will have henceforth under their glance, and within their grasp, the very form and presence of events as they transpire,” and the journal would…"
Explore our collection of contextual essays on various aspects of the arts, using various archives from Gale Primary Sources product.
"The general direction of Anglo-Russian relations was one of animosity to alliance and back to animosity. As such, there are parallels with relations between…"
Click to read Moira Goff's essay about the Burney Newspaper collection at the British library. Learn about the history and collections.