"The journal whose modest first eight-page issue appeared on 17 January 1902 has been a key influence on, as well as record of, contemporary culture..."
An essay introducing part four of the acclaimed series within Gale Primary Sources
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.
"The sixteenth century was an unusual chapter in the long history of England’s complex relations with France. At the beginning of the century…"
"Situated within the iconic Round Tower at Windsor Castle, the Royal Archives holds an unparalleled collection of documents relating to the history of…"
"English society in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries experienced intense social change. The national population was increasing rapidly: from…"
The Victorian period is not viewed by scholars as a great era in theatre history. It produced very few classic plays, but the Victorian theatre tells us a great deal about the age, and the ILN tells us a great deal about the theatre. Its founding coincided with a watershed event in theatre history…
"As most researchers in the field of early modern British history are aware, the contents of the state papers…are to some extent the product of historical…"
"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…"
"Arguably, America’s emergence as an economic superpower was marked by the organization of United States Steel in 1901. This event projected America to…"
"John Nichols (1745–1826) was a leading London printer who inherited the business of his former master and partner, William Bowyer the Younger, in 1777…"
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.
"The formal beginning of Anglo-Ottoman relations dates from the correspondence between Elizabeth I and Murad III in 1579 which led in May 1580…"
"Under the title “Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century,” the archive includes the contents of the British Library’s Private Case, plus…"
"A range of narrative frameworks for discussing sanitary reform evolved in the 1840s, including the verbal and visual rhetoric developed by…"
"Although periodicals expressly for women appeared as early as and increased in number throughout the eighteenth century, it was in the nineteenth century…"
"The Act of Union of 1801 saw Ireland lose its parliament and resulted in the Irish Question being at the forefront of British politics…"
"A reader of eighteenth-century literature might suppose that newspapers are merely a source of background information…It is also true that a different…"
Stuart government in the later seventeenth and early eighteenth century rested upon a number of constitutional pillars re-established at the Restoration in 1660. They came under some strain in 1688, and in the 1690s, but essentially survived in the same form into the eighteenth-century.
"The story of American newspapers of the nineteenth century is rooted in the commerce of ideas that was part of the fabric of the new nation…"