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"From 1933 to the outbreak of the Second World War, the persecution of Jews, the Roma, homosexuals, and political opponents to National Socialism…"
Spain's eighteenth century can be divided into two halves. The first half comprises the reigns of the first Spanish Bourbon, Philip V, the designated successor of the last Spanish Habsburg, Carlos II and of Philip's son, Luis I, who succeeded to the throne following Philip's abdication in 1724.
"The radical right has been small, fractious yet persistent in nearly a century of activism at the furthest reaches of the right-wing spectrum…"
"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…"
View samples from a selection of highlights featured in Imperial China and the West, Part I, part of Gale Primary Sources.
"Like Holland, Flanders was one of a group of provinces, those of the southern Netherlands where the revolt against Habsburg misrule had started…"
"By the beginning of 1689, James II and VII and his queen, Mary of Modena, had fled to France where Louis XIV put at their disposal the castle of…"
"The Danish state of the eighteenth century was a much larger entity than the present-day small power named Denmark. During the eighteenth century…"
"The provision of information by diplomats was but part of the process by which the British government acquired knowledge about the capability…"
The raison d'etre of this collection is the man from whom it takes its title. This was the Duke of Cumberland, who was born William Augustus in London on 15 April 1721 and was the third son of George, Prince of Wales (George II from 1727-60) and his wife, Caroline of Ansbach, Princess of Wales.
"The State Papers are excellent sources for the foreign policy of Britain and other states and, indirectly, for the processes of policy formation and government…"
"During the first seventy-five years of the eighteenth century Britain emerged as the paramount world naval power. The ground work had been…"
Just as they revolutionized work and industrial production, so too did the Victorians transform leisure, play and consumption. What did the older leisure landscape look like, how did such major changes come about, and how did they affect social life and experience?
"The State Papers Online project provides digital access to two major collections of documents relating to Scandinavia which are housed in The National Archives.."
Relations between Britain and China, whilst increasingly fraught throughout the nineteenth century, generated both intense animosity and commodity desirability. A British desire to have agency in China and China's sustained independence proved to be highly problematic.
View samples from a selection of notable contributors featured in the The Listener Historical Archive, part of Gale Primary Sources.
"A range of narrative frameworks for discussing sanitary reform evolved in the 1840s, including the verbal and visual rhetoric developed by…"
View samples from a selection of notable contributors featured in the Sunday Times Digital Archive, part of Gale Primary Sources.