"The nineteenth century is often characterised as a century of progress as Britain became increasingly urban, industrial, commercial and "modern". However…"
"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 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…"
18-19世紀イギリスを代表する出版人ジョン・ニコルズが収集した膨大な新聞コレクションの成り立ちと用途についてレスター大学のジュリアン・プーリーが解説するエッセイです。
"After relatively modest increases in immigration up to 1827, economic expansion in the United States and worsening conditions in Europe—particularly in Ireland…"
"The Canadian Gay Liberation Movement Archives was formed by dedicated volunteers who worked around the offices of The Body Politic…"
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.
"Our Note Book was introduced in July 1884 by the proprietor and editor Sir William James Ingram (1847-1924). It took the form of a series of miscellaneous…"
"Most of the government archives offices were united into one Public Record Office in 1838, not to be joined by the State Paper Office itself until 1852. However…"
"It was the merging of two small City newspapers in 1945 that saw the creation of the Financial Times as we know it today. The two papers that came together…"
An essay on the the Daily Mirror, the only major national daily newspaper in Britain to be designed for women, even if only lasted for a short while.
"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…"
"Queen Anne's death in August 1714 was significant in a variety of ways. In foreign policy terms, her reign had been dominated by conflict with Louis XIV…"
"The death of Queen Anne on 1 August 1714 (os) had the potential to leave a serious power vacuum. Under the Act of Settlement of 1701, her heir was the…"
The campaign to abolish the British slave trade was one of the most important public debates of the late eighteenth century. References to slavery are thus frequently found in newspapers of the period, and are particularly prominent in newspapers published at the height of the campaign in 1787-92.
"The natural world held enormous fascination for the British in the nineteenth century. […] Nothing was more integral to this engagement with the natural world…"
"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…"
"Irish loyalty to the Stuarts first manifested itself in the immediate aftermath of James VI and I's succession to the English throne and Irish crown in 1603…"