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"Nineteenth-century leisure and sport evolved in a culture dominated increasingly by the idea of work, both as an economic necessity and a moral imperative…"
"The Stuart Papers are a product of this crucial shift towards modernity. Technically speaking, they are the archive of the government-in-exile created…"
A collection of digital archives covering the competition for empire and the projection of European power from 1500 to the early 20th century.
View samples from a selection of notable contributors featured in the The Independent Digital Archive, part of Gale Primary Sources.
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"Although periodicals expressly for women appeared as early as and increased in number throughout the eighteenth century, it was in the nineteenth century…"
"One defence of anonymity was that it didn't seem to harm sales. The first year of Alan Pryce-Jones's editorship brought the TLS to its highest circulation ever…"
"The use of cartoons in the Daily Mirror began in 1903 when William Kerridge Haselden, an aspiring cartoonist, had an idea. Working as an insurance clerk…"
"What follows is not a comprehensive survey of Punch's dealings with America, but a roadmap for how this might be pursued now that the magazine has been…"
Thematically, the seventeen journals contained in this collection can be subdivided into three different categories, namely journals preoccupied with missionary information and a missiological discourse; publications...
Discover The Times’ coverage of England’s 1966 World Cup win, with pictures and samples from The Times Digital Archive
"Winston Churchill’s relationship with The Telegraph began after he was stationed in Imperial India in 1896. Looking for an adventure and a way to build his name…"
An essay on the Daily Mirror, which broke the mould in its fourt decade by moving away from conservative world-views promoted by other papers.
"The nineteenth century was a key period in the development of scientific knowledge about electricity. Electricity was transformed from a…"
How did the space race begin? Follow the story from 1957 to 1962, as America competes with the Soviet Union to reach the early milestones in space science, the formation of NASA, and President Kennedy's challenge to land a man on the moon within a decade.
"Perhaps The Times Literary Supplement should have been renamed Survival, the title of the fictional wartime literary magazine…"
"The first decade and a half of the ILN’s life coincided with the slow, piecemeal process by which the British Museum took its modern shape…"
View samples from a selection of notable contributors featured in American Historical Periodicals, part of Gale Primary Sources.
View samples from a selection of highlights featured in Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, part of Gale Primary Sources.
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…