"On the 14 of May, 1842, The Illustrated London News burst upon a world that had never seen anything quite like it. Not that there hadn’t been plenty of…"
"At the beginning of the nineteenth century, in 1800, Britain had been at war with France since 1793, and would remain so (with a small gap) until 1815…"
"The Searchlight Archive at the University of Northampton has, as its main collection, the material collected by the anti-fascist magazine Searchlight…"
"The Danish state of the eighteenth century was a much larger entity than the present-day small power named Denmark. During the eighteenth century…"
"In the very first year of the journal, the discovery of a Roman inscription in London was highlighted. A sampling of material in the journal’s first years shows…"
"On first opening volumes of the early seventeenth-century State Papers Foreign, readers are dazzled by the collection's contents and its comprehensiveness…"
"James Bennett, and his son, Gordon Bennett […] were remarkable in their early understanding of the possibilities of electronic communication for creating news…"
"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 'long eighteenth century', the period, at least in international relations, from the overthrow of James II (and VII of Scotland), in the Glorious Revolution…"
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。
"During the nineteenth century, there was a high rate of internal migration in Britain. The vast majority of moves took place over short distances, with people…"
Explore our collection of contextual essays on various aspects of identity, using various archives from Gale Primary Sources product.
"Nineteenth-century leisure and sport evolved in a culture dominated increasingly by the idea of work, both as an economic necessity and a moral imperative…"
"Government in the early eighteenth century was a very different business from today. The size of the central administration was considerably smaller…"
"Though public opinion had already emerged as a powerful and unpredictable force by the end of the seventeenth century, it is arguable…"
With the abolition of the duty on paper in 1861, the state-led constraints upon the production and sale of newspapers were finally lifted. Equally important was the relative restraint of the government, which did not seek to use the existing libel laws as an instrument of censorship.
Spain's eighteenth century can be divided into two halves. The first half comprises the reigns of the first Spanish Bourbon, Philip V, the designated successor of the last Spanish Habsburg, Carlos II and of Philip's son, Luis I, who succeeded to the throne following Philip's abdication in 1724.
Primary sources research on Frederick the Great's life, career and achievements, from records at the time of his achievements and impact on Europe.
Explore our collection of contextual essays on various aspects of cutlure, using various archives from Gale Primary Sources product.