"In April 2004, the British Library (BL) received 2 million pounds from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)1 to digitise up to 2 million pages…"
"For a long time the Victorian period has popularly been regarded as one in which British cookery slowly declined in quality…"
"Even before the First World War, the structure of society was changing rapidly in Britain. The march of the middle classes meant a new voice was…"
Explore our collection of contextual essays on various aspects of business, using various archives from Gale Primary Sources product.
"Perhaps The Times Literary Supplement should have been renamed Survival, the title of the fictional wartime literary magazine…"
"The first Illustrated London News gossip column was published on 16 March 1850 under the name Angus B. Reach and carried his initials through 15 November 1851…"
"It can be difficult to grasp the scale of newspaper publishing in the United Kingdom. Taken as a whole, the huge and diverse production of newspapers since 1700…"
スミソニアン学術協会が所蔵する選りすぐりのコレクションや出版物
The papers of Mary Eleanor Gawthorpe comprise an extensive collection of personal and political material from a woman whose political involvement spanned many decades and went beyond supportive activism. Gawthorpe worked full time for several feminist and socialist organisations in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in both Great Britain and the United States of America.
"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..."
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 'long eighteenth century', the period, at least in international relations, from the overthrow of James II (and VII of Scotland), in the Glorious Revolution…"
"The State Papers Online project provides digital access to two major collections of documents relating to Scandinavia which are housed in The National Archives.."
"In the long and lively history of publishing, there has never been anything quite like Punch. With its eclectic mix of jokes, puns, parodies, cartoons…"
"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.
"If there is one man who shaped the State Papers it was William Cecil, first Baron of Burghley, Elizabeth I’s Secretary (1558-72) and…"
"'Germany' in the eighteenth century was a geographical, as opposed to political, expression. The area that includes the modern Federal republic, Austria…"
圣智学习集团旗下的Gale公司致力于把英国大英图书馆收藏的印度事务部档案(India Office Records) 中有关中国的部分数字化,以便更好地促进中国近代历史研究。这些资料是英属印度时期英帝国在中国西南边疆、西北边疆等边疆地区活动的历史记载,反映出中国近代民族国家建构过程中外部的历史环境及其对近代中国形成的影响。
Series Editor Rachel Holt explains the reasons, considerations and potential of the new Author Gender Limiter in Women’s Studies Archive.