Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for The Fallen House and Runes.
"One of the many fascinating aspects of British eighteenth century history was the emergence of the nation as a European power of the first order…"
"From its first issue, published on the 14 of May 1842, the ILN insisted, by means of its opening editorial as well as by its evident practice, on the topicality…"
"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…"
"In the twenty-first century government has an almost obsessive interest in mapping social change. The seventeenth-century state was rarely interested in…"
Like her cousin, Elizabeth, Mary Stuart is one of the most well-known figures in the sixteenth century, the subject of countless histories, plays, pictures, novels and films. Often portrayed as a romantic, tragic heroine, for historians she is controversial.
"The campaign for the abolition of slavery was the formative British campaign for human rights and the first campaign to use modern "grass-roots"…"
"The Jacobite government-in-exile…consisted of two distinct parts. There was the ministry, which was soon reduced in size to become…"
"The use of cartoons in the Daily Mirror began in 1903 when William Kerridge Haselden, an aspiring cartoonist, had an idea. Working as an insurance clerk…"
"The American Revolution was a civil war in every sense of the word, a fratricidal conflict that divided men and women throughout the Empire..."
The Daily Mirror has a good claim to be Britain’s most successful and influential newspaper. During its heyday, in the middle decades of the twentieth century, it offered a tremendously powerful, if stylised, expression of left-of-centre working-class popular culture in a country dominated by conservative, middle-class voices. At its peak, in 1967, it reached the unprecedented daily circulation of 5.25 million copies, a figure that none of its rivals has come close to matching, or likely ever will.
"A peculiarity of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was that it was one of the very few communist parties that was never proscribed by the state…"
"The invocation of humour often speaks to cultural anxieties or social concerns. As such, Punch consistently provides a counterpoint to and commentary on…"
"Sport for the well-to-do gentleman in mid-nineteenth century London and the Home Counties embraced news and comment on hunting, fishing…"
"The State Papers are excellent sources for the foreign policy of Britain and other states and, indirectly, for the processes of policy formation and government…"
"A preoccupation on the part of historians with European expansion across the Atlantic between 1500 and 1800 has to some extent obscured the continued importance…"
Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for The Story of an African Farm and Woman and Labour.
"Crime, justice and punishment were major topics in eighteenth-century newspapers. Not only were they a constant and inexpensive source of content…"
"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?