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A collection of digital archives, thematically arranged and reviewed by a board of expert scholars, supporting the study of all aspects of slavery.
"Christian Identity is a multifaceted tradition, but at its core the various manifestations of this belief system necessarily contain two elements…"
Use primary sources to follow the story in 1967-68 when the space race came to an end, after America and the Soviet Union witnessed the ultimate tragedy.
The papers of Mary Eleanor Gawthorpe comprise an extensive collection of personal and political material from a woman whose political involvement spanned many decades and went beyond supportive activism. Gawthorpe worked full time for several feminist and socialist organisations in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in both Great Britain and the United States of America.
"The Hall-Carpenter Archives (HCA) are named after the authors Marguerite Radclyffe Hall (1880-1943) and Edward Carpenter (1844-1929)…"
A collection of digital archives covering classic and contemporary legal traditions in America, Britian, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and other jurisdictions.
Primary sources research on Frederick the Great's life, career and achievements, from records at the time of his achievements and impact on Europe.
"The weekly issues from 1900 saw a wide range of content and cartoon styles that celebrated the new century and exported English-British culture…"
Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for Nectar in a Sieve and The Nowhere Man.
"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…"
A collection of digital archives covering two hundred years of British and European history, from the reign of Henry VIII to the end of the reign of Queen Anne.
An essay introducing part four of the acclaimed series within Gale Primary Sources
State Papers Online offers easy access to the full range of the Tudor and Stuart governments’ domestic and foreign activities in a searchable digital format.
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.
"The tentacles of Britain’s Indian Empire stretched far beyond its nominal frontiers, which in any case expanded throughout the nineteenth century…"
"'Germany' in the eighteenth century was a geographical, as opposed to political, expression. The area that includes the modern Federal republic, Austria…"
"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…"
"Rochford was an interesting individual. He was a musician who loved the theatre and counted the actor David Garrick and the playwright Beaumarchais…"
"There are 180 volumes covering Anglo-French relations in SP 78, the most numerous number for any state in eighteenth-century Europe…"
View samples from a selection of notable stories and features from the Mirror Historical Archive, part of Gale Primary Sources.