"By the beginning of 1689, James II and VII and his queen, Mary of Modena, had fled to France where Louis XIV put at their disposal the castle of…"
"Arguably, America’s emergence as an economic superpower was marked by the organization of United States Steel in 1901. This event projected America to…"
"A reader of eighteenth-century literature might suppose that newspapers are merely a source of background information…It is also true that a different…"
The story of photography’s invention in itself reveals the importance of periodical reportage to the dissemination of knowledge and scientific discovery in the nineteenth century. The process of capturing permanent, photographic records of the visual environment was long sought after…
"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…"
"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…"
"Our understanding of the life and character of Henry Benedict Stuart has suffered, perhaps disproportionately, from poor scholarship - both during the period of…"
"The Searchlight Archive at the University of Northampton has, as its main collection, the material collected by the anti-fascist magazine Searchlight…"
Triggered by the works of Sir Walter Scott, a veritable craze for all things medieval swept through Britain. Stage productions based on Ivanhoe (1819) delighted audiences for decades, and Astley's Amphitheatre, London's first purpose-built circus, became the place to see staged tournaments.
An essay on the Herald’s content, and how it diversified in the early 20th century with women featured more prominently, albeit in heavily stereotyped ways.
"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…"
It is taken for granted in twenty-first-century Britain that the media can significantly influence the ways in which we think about ourselves and the world around us. But how would readers of nineteenth-century newspapers have described themselves?
"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.
"As most researchers in the field of early modern British history are aware, the contents of the state papers…are to some extent the product of historical…"
"The first number of The Illustrated London News on 14 May 1842 reflects the newspaper’s initial, and longstanding, dedication to the illustrated coverage of…"
"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…"