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The summoning of the two parliaments which met in 1640 was perceived by contemporaries as marking an end to the long period of personal rule by Charles I, but in institutional and archival terms, it was the year 1642 that marked the start of a unique phase in the history of English government.
"The history of British-Ottoman relations between 1713 and 1779 is therefore one of commerce and diplomacy intertwined, with foreign policy aims…"
"From 1933 to the outbreak of the Second World War, the persecution of Jews, the Roma, homosexuals, and political opponents to National Socialism…"
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?
Chartism was both a political reaction to a series of setbacks suffered by the working classes during the 1830s, and a response to economic hardship. Chartism was only a mass movement in times of depression, with peaks of activity coinciding with troughs in the economy.
"Advertising in historical newspapers has been something of a poor relation within media studies, but early newspaper advertisements were…"
中国の官庁でありながら外国人が運営した清末民国期の海関。その起こりから終焉までを多数の図版とともに解説します。
"In the seventeenth century, English foreign policy focused on near-neighbours and the challenges they posed: on France, on Spain, the ruler of modern Belgium…"
"“The public will have henceforth under their glance, and within their grasp, the very form and presence of events as they transpire,” and the journal would…"
"One of the many fascinating aspects of British eighteenth century history was the emergence of the nation as a European power of the first order…"
During the nineteenth century, fire was perhaps the most severe environmental threat faced by Americans, especially in urban areas. Before the Civil War, hundreds of large fires destroyed property worth over 200 million dollars in the nation’s principal cities.
"V.S. Pritchett was to tell Alan Pryce-Jones that he had turned the TLS into "by far, far the best literary periodical in England". Never before had the paper…"
"Ever since 4 May 1896, the Daily Mail has been praised and plagiarised, copied and cursed. It has been ceremoniously incinerated and ceremonially honoured…"
"The social hygiene movement (see also sex hygiene) originated in the early 1900s, bringing together different groups that were concerned with…"
"The radical right has been small, fractious yet persistent in nearly a century of activism at the furthest reaches of the right-wing spectrum…"
Primary sources research on Frederick the Great's life, career and achievements, from records at the time of his achievements and impact on Europe.
Explore our collection of contextual essays on various aspects of cutlure, using various archives from Gale Primary Sources product.
"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…"