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The summoning of the two parliaments which met in 1640 was perceived by contemporaries as marking an end to the long period of personal rule by Charles I, but in institutional and archival terms, it was the year 1642 that marked the start of a unique phase in the history of English government.
"During the first seventy-five years of the eighteenth century Britain emerged as the paramount world naval power. The ground work had been…"
Click to read Moira Goff's essay about the Burney Newspaper collection at the British library. Learn about the history and collections.
"Historically, the foundational principles and anatomy of 18th century British foreign policy are embedded within the broader, evolving international…"
"The use of cartoons in the Daily Mirror began in 1903 when William Kerridge Haselden, an aspiring cartoonist, had an idea. Working as an insurance clerk…"
"The public's ability to engage with political and religious issues, and with current affairs, had always been highly controversial, not least to the extent that…"
"The general direction of Anglo-Russian relations was one of animosity to alliance and back to animosity. As such, there are parallels with relations between…"
"In the very first year of the journal, the discovery of a Roman inscription in London was highlighted. A sampling of material in the journal’s first years shows…"
An essay on Princess Maria Clementina Sobieska (1702-1735), who was one of the most well-connected young ladies in Europe at this time.
"By the beginning of 1689, James II and VII and his queen, Mary of Modena, had fled to France where Louis XIV put at their disposal the castle of…"
"Arguably, America’s emergence as an economic superpower was marked by the organization of United States Steel in 1901. This event projected America to…"
Ever since it was launched in 1986, The Independent has enjoyed a reputation for quality and innovation, something Andreas Whittam-Smith and his two co-founders, Stephen Glover and Matthew Symonds, made as a guiding principle when they conceived the idea of a new, upmarket British newspaper.
"It all began with a man with a grudge. Colonel Arthur Burroughes Sleigh was a Canadian-born army officer and writer who for reasons lost to the mists of time…"
The Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief (CBF)...was founded in the early months of 1933 by a group of Anglo-Jewish communal leaders who represented the breadth of the liturgical spectrum and who held widely diverse political loyalties.
"After the Mirror slumped to an uncompetitive circulation of 720,000 at a point in the early 1930s when its main rivals in the popular market were…"
"The Hall-Carpenter Archives (HCA) are named after the authors Marguerite Radclyffe Hall (1880-1943) and Edward Carpenter (1844-1929)…"
Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for Death in the Andes and The Time of the Hero.
Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake.
Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for The Conservationaist and July's People.
Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for Little Women and Good Wives.