Just as they revolutionized work and industrial production, so too did the Victorians transform leisure, play and consumption. What did the older leisure landscape look like, how did such major changes come about, and how did they affect social life and experience?
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.
Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for An Answer from the Silence and Man in the Holocene.
Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for The Great Gatsby and The Beautiful and the Damned.
Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for The Relic and The Mandarin.
Biographies, overviews and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring some of the most prominent authors associated with Southern European literature.
Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for Steppenwolf and Siddhartha.
Biographies, overviews and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring some of the most prominent authors associated with Southern Asian literature.
Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness.
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.
"Both before and during the Seven Years' War (1756-63), British foreign policy primarily reflected a strategic rivalry with France. The two powers…"
"Advertising in historical newspapers has been something of a poor relation within media studies, but early newspaper advertisements were…"
Stuart government in the later seventeenth and early eighteenth century rested upon a number of constitutional pillars re-established at the Restoration in 1660. They came under some strain in 1688, and in the 1690s, but essentially survived in the same form into the eighteenth-century.
During the nineteenth century, fire was perhaps the most severe environmental threat faced by Americans, especially in urban areas. Before the Civil War, hundreds of large fires destroyed property worth over 200 million dollars in the nation’s principal cities.
"V.S. Pritchett was to tell Alan Pryce-Jones that he had turned the TLS into "by far, far the best literary periodical in England". Never before had the paper…"