"At the beginning of the nineteenth century, in 1800, Britain had been at war with France since 1793, and would remain so (with a small gap) until 1815…"
"The Searchlight Archive at the University of Northampton has, as its main collection, the material collected by the anti-fascist magazine Searchlight…"
"The radical right has been small, fractious yet persistent in nearly a century of activism at the furthest reaches of the right-wing spectrum…"
Primary sources research on Frederick the Great's life, career and achievements, from records at the time of his achievements and impact on Europe.
Explore our collection of contextual essays on various aspects of cutlure, using various archives from Gale Primary Sources product.
"A seemingly endless supply of boxes, each filled with papers to be carefully analyzed, can be a daunting sight. It is still more daunting when those boxes are…"
"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?
"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)…"
"The origin of the Crystal Palace lay in a decision made in 1849 by Albert, the Prince Consort, together with a small group of friends and advisers, to hold…"
"Although the story unfolded with what seems like tragic inevitability, there was nothing inevitable about Henry VIII’s ‘Break with Rome’ when…"
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was an agitator and organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and an official of the Communist Party (CP). In an era when street life and mass strikes had a direct impact on ordinary people, Flynn’s notoriety was akin to that accorded to media stars today. The Rebel Girl, as she was called, led immigrant workers in major strikes in Lawrence, Massachusetts and Paterson and Passaic, New Jersey.
"State Papers Foreign offer much for an understanding of the development of the German states in this period. The key German states for scrutiny were…"
The monarchs of the Tudor dynasty occupy a unique place within the national memory. …Henry VIII and Elizabeth I are among England’s most recognisable rulers, thanks to splendid portraits painted in their own lifetimes: the Tudors were gifted in the art of self-promotion.
"For a long time the Victorian period has popularly been regarded as one in which British cookery slowly declined in quality…"
性愛文学の書物史を専門とするモナシュ大学のパトリック・スペディング博士が大英図書館「プライベート・ケース」をはじめとする発禁本コレクションをめぐる書誌学的研究の難しさとデジタル化の意義について考察するエッセイです。
"The 'long eighteenth century', the period, at least in international relations, from the overthrow of James II (and VII of Scotland), in the Glorious Revolution…"
圣智学习集团旗下的Gale公司致力于把英国大英图书馆收藏的印度事务部档案(India Office Records) 中有关中国的部分数字化,以便更好地促进中国近代历史研究。这些资料是英属印度时期英帝国在中国西南边疆、西北边疆等边疆地区活动的历史记载,反映出中国近代民族国家建构过程中外部的历史环境及其对近代中国形成的影响。
挿絵を中心に据えた紙面でニュースに革命を起こした『イラストレイテッド・ロンドン・ニュース』はいかにして生まれ、国民的新聞に成長したのか。19世紀までの歴史をたどるエッセイです。