"I was, I believe, the last person to leave the newsroom of the New York Herald Tribune on April 23, 1966, the day it folded. I walked through the lobby…"
An essay on the Daily Mail, which explicitly addressed women from its very first issue on 4 May 1896.
"The far right is best understood as a spectrum of groups and individuals who are often at odds with one another but hold in common some combination…"
"Cartoons satirizing both fashion and courtship are frequently intertwined in the pages of Punch as both subjects highlight confusing and rapidly shifting…"
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.
"On first opening volumes of the early seventeenth-century State Papers Foreign, readers are dazzled by the collection's contents and its comprehensiveness…"
"James Bennett, and his son, Gordon Bennett […] were remarkable in their early understanding of the possibilities of electronic communication for creating news…"
"“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…"
"The seventeenth century saw the institution of monarchy at both its apogee and its nadir. The reign of Elizabeth is often considered its golden age…"
"Like Holland, Flanders was one of a group of provinces, those of the southern Netherlands where the revolt against Habsburg misrule had started…"
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"Although periodicals expressly for women appeared as early as and increased in number throughout the eighteenth century, it was in the nineteenth century…"
"Over the last 120 years the Financial Times has reported numerous scandals and debacles that have engulfed City firms and individuals…"
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"The Holiness movement traces its origins to those perfectionist currents within Methodism that emerged during the early nineteenth century…"
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"The first African slaves appeared in the English colonies in 1619. Native Americans too were often enslaved in the seventeenth century, frequently being shipped…"
"The campaign for the abolition of slavery was the formative British campaign for human rights and the first campaign to use modern "grass-roots"…"
"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…"