"Throughout the nineteenth century, periodicals published both in Britain and in the colonies featured aspects of the imperial experience. Before the 1850…"
"Historically, the foundational principles and anatomy of 18th century British foreign policy are embedded within the broader, evolving international…"
"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 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…"
ピンクの紙面で知られるイギリスの高級経済紙「FT」の19世紀末の創刊から21世紀初めまでの120年あまりの歴史をたどるエッセイです。
"The Danish state of the eighteenth century was a much larger entity than the present-day small power named Denmark. During the eighteenth century…"
"The tentacles of Britain’s Indian Empire stretched far beyond its nominal frontiers, which in any case expanded throughout the nineteenth century…"
"In many respects, James II and VII's relationship to Scotland was the most interesting. His interrupted sojourn in Edinburgh as Duke of Albany…"
"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…"
"Printers’ ornaments are the decorative images that appear in printed books to embellish title pages, headings, chapter endings, and any otherwise blank spaces…"
"Three broad factors shaped Americans’ experience of health and disease: the kinds of diseases that afflicted large numbers of people; the local, domestic…"
Dr Knighton, who created the Calendars for State Papers Domestic for the periods of Edward VI, Mary I and Anne, explains what a Calendar is, the history of Calendars and how they have evolved, and their value as catalogues to the State Papers and for research.
Case Study: "I have used Punch on a second level module entitled "Research Methods for Media, Culture and Communication" as part of a BA (Hons)…"
"The Church's records are severely depleted for the period 1641-60, when church courts and then bishops were abolished and the Church effectively ceased to…"
"When exploring representations of "popular music" in Punch, the first thing to note is that this key term is relatively modern, with the vast majority of…"
"In the late-Stuart era, women were still largely confined to the domestic sphere. Because of their limited education and because of prejudices…"
"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 life story of James III and VIII is mainly contained within the Stuart Papers in the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle. They contain thousands of documents in hundreds of volumes giving details of his political and personal correspondence, of his finances, and of the management of his court.