"English society in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries experienced intense social change. The national population was increasing rapidly: from…"
The Victorian period is not viewed by scholars as a great era in theatre history. It produced very few classic plays, but the Victorian theatre tells us a great deal about the age, and the ILN tells us a great deal about the theatre. Its founding coincided with a watershed event in theatre history…
"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.
"'Germany' in the eighteenth century was a geographical, as opposed to political, expression. The area that includes the modern Federal republic, Austria…"
"The American Religions Collection represents a major curatorial division of the University of California, Santa Barbara Library’s Special Research Collections…"
A collection of letters, journals, logbooks, watercolors, engravings, and books produced by Macartney himself and those who accompanied him on the historic mission to China between 1792 and 1794.
Beginning as small-circulation, text-based magazines, heavy with political content, they expanded dramatically through the century to offer a mixture of politics, social comment and pure fun, delivered through a range of illustrated magazines and comics, to a host of new readers.
"During the nineteenth century there was a dramatic increase in the number of periodicals published for children, especially in the final third of the century…"
"After relatively modest increases in immigration up to 1827, economic expansion in the United States and worsening conditions in Europe—particularly in Ireland…"
The word “race” meant different things to different people in the nineteenth century. In its broadest sense, “race” referred to the common ancestry of a group of humans who shared characteristics that had developed over time.… Many nineteenth-century references to race reflect this ambiguity.
"Delving into the 2,072 results between 1868-98, including the 81 cartoons, allows us to see that textual references to Gladstone far outstrip his…"
A range of digitised archives offering targeted collections of interest to scholars engaged in research, supporting research in American studies.
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Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for Six Characters in Search of an Author and The Turn.
Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for Peer Gynt and A Doll's House.
Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for Resurrection and Philosopher or Dog?.
Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for Cider House Rules and The World According to Garp.
Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for Don Quixote and The Jealous Man From Extremadura.