Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for The English Patient and Anil's Ghost.
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"The tentacles of Britain’s Indian Empire stretched far beyond its nominal frontiers, which in any case expanded throughout the nineteenth century…"
"The first decade and a half of the ILN’s life coincided with the slow, piecemeal process by which the British Museum took its modern shape…"
It is taken for granted in twenty-first-century Britain that the media can significantly influence the ways in which we think about ourselves and the world around us. But how would readers of nineteenth-century newspapers have described themselves?
The papers of Mary Eleanor Gawthorpe comprise an extensive collection of personal and political material from a woman whose political involvement spanned many decades and went beyond supportive activism. Gawthorpe worked full time for several feminist and socialist organisations in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in both Great Britain and the United States of America.
"What follows is not a comprehensive survey of Punch's dealings with America, but a roadmap for how this might be pursued now that the magazine has been…"
"The journal whose modest first eight-page issue appeared on 17 January 1902 has been a key influence on, as well as record of, contemporary culture..."
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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…"
"In Scotland the political impetus that carried the polity into union with England came from an old-fashioned dynastic crisis. When her only surviving child…"
To any seasoned historian, the seventeen journals presented in digitised form by Gale, a Cengage Company embody a long-cherished dream come true. The digital collection represents the near-totality of journals produced in the English medium in China between 1817 and 1949, not counting ephemeral publications or daily newspapers.
"The history of British-Ottoman relations between 1713 and 1779 is therefore one of commerce and diplomacy intertwined, with foreign policy aims…"
"‘The simple and unexaggerated truth is, that there is a particular style of journalism complete success in which Mr Sala can alone of living men command’…"
"During the early nineteenth century, advertising was already well-established in Britain—highly visible on its streets and in its press. While not all…"
"The mid-Victorian period was a time of technological advancements and industrial prosperity, all of which contributed to the growth of the travel industry…"
"Christian Identity is a multifaceted tradition, but at its core the various manifestations of this belief system necessarily contain two elements…"