Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest.
"Historically, the foundational principles and anatomy of 18th century British foreign policy are embedded within the broader, evolving international…"
During the seventeenth century Portugal had faced severe challenges. Much of its eastern empire had been lost and, although independence from Spain had been declared in 1640, a prolonged war had followed that only finally came to an end in 1668.
"The weekly issues from 1900 saw a wide range of content and cartoon styles that celebrated the new century and exported English-British culture…"
"“The public will have henceforth under their glance, and within their grasp, the very form and presence of events as they transpire,” and the journal would…"
Explore our collection of contextual essays on various aspects of the arts, using various archives from Gale Primary Sources product.
Fearless, flamboyant, and somewhat rackety, Ashmead-Bartlett came from a well-connected family. A colleague once described him as ‘a chap with an exceedingly nice nature but vilely brought up in the sort of wild selfish third rate society that surrounded his father’.
In his Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands (1668), the English ambassador, Sir William Temple, enumerated the achievements of the young state, and concluded that the Dutch Republic had become 'the Envy of some, the Fear of others, and the Wonder of all their Neighbours'
"The Times, the most influential newspaper of nineteenth century Britain, and Punch, the comic periodical which became a cultural institution, were…"
"The extent, consequences and legacy of wartime persecution and flight are extensively reflected in Refugees, Relief and Resettlement…"
"In the first half of the nineteenth century graphic satire was transformed by changes to printing practices. During this time it became fast, easy and…"
Chartism was both a political reaction to a series of setbacks suffered by the working classes during the 1830s, and a response to economic hardship. Chartism was only a mass movement in times of depression, with peaks of activity coinciding with troughs in the economy.
"Looking back a generation in 1815, John Adams reminded […] Thomas Jefferson, that America’s revolution from Britain was not fought with gunpowder and…"
"A range of narrative frameworks for discussing sanitary reform evolved in the 1840s, including the verbal and visual rhetoric developed by…"
"Although periodicals expressly for women appeared as early as and increased in number throughout the eighteenth century, it was in the nineteenth century…"
Explore our collection of contextual essays on various aspects of politics, using various archives from Gale Primary Sources products.
"Over the last 120 years the Financial Times has reported numerous scandals and debacles that have engulfed City firms and individuals…"
"The American Radicalism Collection (ARC) at Michigan State University (MSU) Special Collections holds an impressive variety of sources on groups considered…"
An essay on Princess Maria Clementina Sobieska (1702-1735), who was one of the most well-connected young ladies in Europe at this time.