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Explore our collection of contextual essays on various aspects of the arts, using various archives from Gale Primary Sources product.
"First announced in the London edition of the Daily Mail on 12 January 1923, the Atlantic Edition was described as helping to…"
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 collection of digital archives covering British government records during the Age of Enlightenment, linked to their fully text-searchable calendars.
An essay on the the Daily Mail, which was never content to be a passive spectator, from its launch trying to influence national decision–making processes.
"The Nichols Newspapers Collection reflects the enormous differences brought about by the combination of a new regulatory regime after the Glorious Revolution…"
"‘The simple and unexaggerated truth is, that there is a particular style of journalism complete success in which Mr Sala can alone of living men command’…"
"The campaign for the abolition of slavery was the formative British campaign for human rights and the first campaign to use modern "grass-roots"…"
Explore our collection of contextual essays on various aspects of business, using various archives from Gale Primary Sources product.
Explore our collection of contextual essays on various aspects of identity, using various archives from Gale Primary Sources product.
"The Act of Union of 1801 saw Ireland lose its parliament and resulted in the Irish Question being at the forefront of British politics…"
Alfred Harmsworth, better known under his later title Lord Northcliffe, launched the Daily Mail on 4 May 1896 and laid down a model of popular journalism that still shapes our newspapers today. To his admirers, he was the ‘greatest figure who ever strode down Fleet Street’.