As a leading newspaper of record, the FT's coverage of important events extends much beyond financial affairs. Over the years it has reported major British and international political stories, often through colourful accounts by its own on-the-spot correspondents.
"During the nineteenth century, there was a high rate of internal migration in Britain. The vast majority of moves took place over short distances, with people…"
Beginning as small-circulation, text-based magazines, heavy with political content, they expanded dramatically through the century to offer a mixture of politics, social comment and pure fun, delivered through a range of illustrated magazines and comics, to a host of new readers.
"The first thing to understand about the sources that you can read in State Papers Online is that they really belong together. Over four hundred years ago…"
"After relatively modest increases in immigration up to 1827, economic expansion in the United States and worsening conditions in Europe—particularly in Ireland…"
"During the nineteenth century there was a dramatic increase in the number of periodicals published for children, especially in the final third of the century…"
The word “race” meant different things to different people in the nineteenth century. In its broadest sense, “race” referred to the common ancestry of a group of humans who shared characteristics that had developed over time.… Many nineteenth-century references to race reflect this ambiguity.
"Delving into the 2,072 results between 1868-98, including the 81 cartoons, allows us to see that textual references to Gladstone far outstrip his…"
"The American Religions Collection represents a major curatorial division of the University of California, Santa Barbara Library’s Special Research Collections…"
"The Holy Roman Empire was eighteenth century Europe's largest state, not counting Russia, which many Europeans still regarded as entirely separate…"
"The first decades of the seventeenth century were a formative time in Irish history. The Tudor conquest was finally completed in 1603 with the conclusion…"
"The nineteenth century is often characterised as a century of progress as Britain became increasingly urban, industrial, commercial and "modern". However…"
With the abolition of the duty on paper in 1861, the state-led constraints upon the production and sale of newspapers were finally lifted. Equally important was the relative restraint of the government, which did not seek to use the existing libel laws as an instrument of censorship.
20世紀の中東政策形成において主導的役割を果たしたアメリカとイギリスの外交資料等の政府関係資料
中世初期から19世紀までの英文学史上の文芸作品の手稿、写本、稿本をデジタル化
"Crime, justice and punishment were major topics in eighteenth-century newspapers. Not only were they a constant and inexpensive source of content…"
"During the early years of James I's reign the formal archive created in 1578 for the papers belonging to the secretaries of state began to take shape…"
"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.