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During the seventeenth century Portugal had faced severe challenges. Much of its eastern empire had been lost and, although independence from Spain had been declared in 1640, a prolonged war had followed that only finally came to an end in 1668.
"The weekly issues from 1900 saw a wide range of content and cartoon styles that celebrated the new century and exported English-British culture…"
"“The public will have henceforth under their glance, and within their grasp, the very form and presence of events as they transpire,” and the journal would…"
Library resource that provides full-text coverage of all business disciplines through nearly 4,000 leading business and trade publications, updated daily.
"It can be difficult to grasp the scale of newspaper publishing in the United Kingdom. Taken as a whole, the huge and diverse production of newspapers since 1700…"
"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…"
Explore our collection of contextual essays on various aspects of identity, using various archives from Gale Primary Sources product.
"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…"