"The first Illustrated London News gossip column was published on 16 March 1850 under the name Angus B. Reach and carried his initials through 15 November 1851…"
"Though public opinion had already emerged as a powerful and unpredictable force by the end of the seventeenth century, it is arguable…"
"Situated within the iconic Round Tower at Windsor Castle, the Royal Archives holds an unparalleled collection of documents relating to the history of…"
"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…"
Alfred Harmsworth, better known under his later title Lord Northcliffe, launched the Daily Mail on 4 May 1896 and laid down a model of popular journalism that still shapes our newspapers today. To his admirers, he was the ‘greatest figure who ever strode down Fleet Street’.
"The Holiness movement traces its origins to those perfectionist currents within Methodism that emerged during the early nineteenth century…"
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"Like other nineteenth-century periodicals, however, the ILN did not confine its coverage to current events. Literature, which the editors cited as…"
"Whatever your approach it is important to have some overview of religious history in Britain as Punch tended to respond to matters that were well-known…"
"In April 2004, the British Library (BL) received 2 million pounds from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)1 to digitise up to 2 million pages…"
"For a long time the Victorian period has popularly been regarded as one in which British cookery slowly declined in quality…"