"The State Papers Online project provides digital access to two major collections of documents relating to Scandinavia which are housed in The National Archives.."
"In the long and lively history of publishing, there has never been anything quite like Punch. With its eclectic mix of jokes, puns, parodies, cartoons…"
"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.
"If there is one man who shaped the State Papers it was William Cecil, first Baron of Burghley, Elizabeth I’s Secretary (1558-72) and…"
19世紀から20世紀にわたり、北米の貴重な資料を提供します。
20世紀の中東政策形成において主導的役割を果たしたアメリカとイギリスの外交資料等の政府関係資料
We commission essays from leading scholars to detail the history of our archives and popular research themes.
Much of the rise in literacy was brought about through increases in the provision of schooling during the nineteenth century—especially for working-class children. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, education for the working classes was available on a haphazard basis in England and Wales.
"The mid-Victorian period was a time of technological advancements and industrial prosperity, all of which contributed to the growth of the travel industry…"
An essay on the Daily Mirror, which broke the mould in its fourt decade by moving away from conservative world-views promoted by other papers.
18世紀後半から20世紀初頭までの〈長い19世紀〉を対象とし、書籍はもちろんのこと、書簡、手稿、政府文書、新聞、雑誌、写真、地図、エフェメラまで2600万ページ以上におよぶ膨大な資料群
17 世紀から20 世紀までの北米先住民の政治、社会、文化史に関する資料を収録するデータベースシリーズです。収録資料は北米先住民の言語、慣習、宗教、文化から植民地時代から20 世紀までの政府と先住民族の関係、貿易、政治、法律、土地、環境保護、戦争における米国およびカナダ政府と先住民の交渉の実態まで、北米先住民の多彩な実像を浮かび上がらせます。
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.
"The history of British-Ottoman relations between 1713 and 1779 is therefore one of commerce and diplomacy intertwined, with foreign policy aims…"
"From 1933 to the outbreak of the Second World War, the persecution of Jews, the Roma, homosexuals, and political opponents to National Socialism…"
Just as they revolutionized work and industrial production, so too did the Victorians transform leisure, play and consumption. What did the older leisure landscape look like, how did such major changes come about, and how did they affect social life and experience?
Chartism was both a political reaction to a series of setbacks suffered by the working classes during the 1830s, and a response to economic hardship. Chartism was only a mass movement in times of depression, with peaks of activity coinciding with troughs in the economy.
"Advertising in historical newspapers has been something of a poor relation within media studies, but early newspaper advertisements were…"