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"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…"
"On April 6, 1830, when formally establishing the Church of Christ, Joseph Smith, Jr., also announced that the Lord had commanded him…"
"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 story of slavery does not begin with European ships arriving on the African coast. Slavery was already prefigured by the history of social stratification…"
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"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…"
"The radical political movement known as the Alt-Right is, without question, a twenty-first century phenomenon… Unlike earlier radical right movements…"
"Three broad factors shaped Americans’ experience of health and disease: the kinds of diseases that afflicted large numbers of people; the local, domestic…"
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"When exploring representations of "popular music" in Punch, the first thing to note is that this key term is relatively modern, with the vast majority of…"
"In the late-Stuart era, women were still largely confined to the domestic sphere. Because of their limited education and because of prejudices…"
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Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for I Saw in My Dream and Sunset Village.
Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for Kanthapura and The Serpent and the Rope.