"Thomas Wolsey was born in Ipswich around 1471. Often described as a butcher’s son, his origins were undoubtedly modest. He graduated from Magdalene College…"
"From the outset of the war Punch defined itself as a source of patriotic entertainment. During the conflict Punch drew on its archives to publish…"
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…
"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…"
Between 1770 and 1830, crucial changes in penal law, including the increasing professionalization of law enforcement, and the decline in popularity of some of the traditional genres in the popular literature of crime, meant that crime content in newspapers was expanded and re-organised.
"As an editor, Bruce Richmond was apolitical and broadly tended towards whatever line was followed by his close friend the editor of The Times, Geoffrey Dawson…"
"State Papers Foreign offer much for an understanding of the development of the German states in this period. The key German states for scrutiny were…"
The monarchs of the Tudor dynasty occupy a unique place within the national memory. …Henry VIII and Elizabeth I are among England’s most recognisable rulers, thanks to splendid portraits painted in their own lifetimes: the Tudors were gifted in the art of self-promotion.
"Digitised newspapers have become vital tools for historians. The availability of searchable online journalism, stretching back centuries…"
"Why did the Paris Herald […] come into being where and when it did? James Gordon Bennett Jr. had taken over his father’s New York Herald in the late 1860s…"
"A national consumer culture first emerged in the United States late in the nineteenth century. But the origins of a consumer society stretch back…"
"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 120 years since the establishment of the Financial Times has witnessed a succession of financial systems and numerous booms, busts, manias…"
"Our understanding of the life and character of Henry Benedict Stuart has suffered, perhaps disproportionately, from poor scholarship - both during the period of…"
"The general direction of Anglo-Russian relations was one of animosity to alliance and back to animosity. As such, there are parallels with relations between…"
"In the very first year of the journal, the discovery of a Roman inscription in London was highlighted. A sampling of material in the journal’s first years shows…"
"On first opening volumes of the early seventeenth-century State Papers Foreign, readers are dazzled by the collection's contents and its comprehensiveness…"
"James Bennett, and his son, Gordon Bennett […] were remarkable in their early understanding of the possibilities of electronic communication for creating news…"
挿絵を中心に据えた紙面でニュースに革命を起こした『イラストレイテッド・ロンドン・ニュース』はいかにして生まれ、国民的新聞に成長したのか。19世紀までの歴史をたどるエッセイです。
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.