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"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…
View samples from a selection of highlights featured in the The Independent Digital Archive, part of Gale Primary Sources.
"Like other nineteenth-century periodicals, however, the ILN did not confine its coverage to current events. Literature, which the editors cited as…"
"Over the last 120 years the Financial Times has reported numerous scandals and debacles that have engulfed City firms and individuals…"
"For a long time the Victorian period has popularly been regarded as one in which British cookery slowly declined in quality…"
Ever since it was launched in 1986, The Independent has enjoyed a reputation for quality and innovation, something Andreas Whittam-Smith and his two co-founders, Stephen Glover and Matthew Symonds, made as a guiding principle when they conceived the idea of a new, upmarket British newspaper.
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View samples from a selection of highlights featured in the International Herald Tribune Historical Archive, part of Gale Primary Sources.
"D.L. Murray's successor, albeit for the shortest editorship of the TLS since J.R. Thursfield's in 1902, was in some ways representative of the nascently…"
"The nineteenth century saw the rapid development of towns and cities in Britain. Higher population density without adequate amenities led to…"
"Looking back a generation in 1815, John Adams reminded […] Thomas Jefferson, that America’s revolution from Britain was not fought with gunpowder and…"
"Crime, justice and punishment were major topics in eighteenth-century newspapers. Not only were they a constant and inexpensive source of content…"
"Situated within the iconic Round Tower at Windsor Castle, the Royal Archives holds an unparalleled collection of documents relating to the history of…"
"In the late-Stuart era, women were still largely confined to the domestic sphere. Because of their limited education and because of prejudices…"
When Punch is mentioned in histories of the British campaign for women's suffrage it is often depicted as a univocal, and uniformly hostile, publication. In these books 'Punch's view' of women's suffrage is often represented by caricatures of suffragettes as unattractive spinsters.
View samples from a selection of highlights featured in the The Times Digital Archive, part of Gale Primary Sources.
"The extent, consequences and legacy of wartime persecution and flight are extensively reflected in Refugees, Relief and Resettlement…"