"America is experiencing a religious revival and a huge growth in the exploration and practice of alternative religions. The American Religions Collection…"
"The provision of information by diplomats was but part of the process by which the British government acquired knowledge about the capability…"
"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…"
"The Stuart Papers are a product of this crucial shift towards modernity. Technically speaking, they are the archive of the government-in-exile created…"
"On April 6, 1830, when formally establishing the Church of Christ, Joseph Smith, Jr., also announced that the Lord had commanded him…"
"The Searchlight Archive at the University of Northampton has, as its main collection, the material collected by the anti-fascist magazine Searchlight…"
Triggered by the works of Sir Walter Scott, a veritable craze for all things medieval swept through Britain. Stage productions based on Ivanhoe (1819) delighted audiences for decades, and Astley's Amphitheatre, London's first purpose-built circus, became the place to see staged tournaments.
The Victorian period is not viewed by scholars as a great era in theatre history. It produced very few classic plays, but the Victorian theatre tells us a great deal about the age, and the ILN tells us a great deal about the theatre. Its founding coincided with a watershed event in theatre history…
"Nineteenth-century leisure and sport evolved in a culture dominated increasingly by the idea of work, both as an economic necessity and a moral imperative…"
"In 1648, when his father was imprisoned by Parliament, James fled to Holland disguised as a girl, later joining his mother in France and ending up fighting with…"
"Whatever your approach it is important to have some overview of religious history in Britain as Punch tended to respond to matters that were well-known…"
"In April 2004, the British Library (BL) received 2 million pounds from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)1 to digitise up to 2 million pages…"
アフリカ研究では重要な植民地時代 (1910-1940)を中心に扱います。
"Thomas Wolsey was born in Ipswich around 1471. Often described as a butcher’s son, his origins were undoubtedly modest. He graduated from Magdalene College…"
"At the beginning of the nineteenth century, sport garnered little coverage in the press. However, with a modern sporting culture emerging in Britain...".
The first four issues of the ILN do not contain formal advertising as such. This was probably because Ingram had not approached an advertising agent (perhaps surprisingly, agents had existed since at least the 1790s). But if we think of advertisements less as a form than as a type of communication…
"In 1920, Charles-Edward A. Winslow (1877-1957), a faculty member at the Yale School of Medicine, penned his “classic definition” of public health as…"
Between 1770 and 1830, crucial changes in penal law, including the increasing professionalization of law enforcement, and the decline in popularity of some of the traditional genres in the popular literature of crime, meant that crime content in newspapers was expanded and re-organised.
アメリカ古書協会の所蔵する女性著者の作品5,900点以上を収録するコレクションはいかに選定され、どのような資料を含み、なぜ重要なのか。同協会の学芸員が解説します。
"In 1648, when his father was imprisoned by Parliament, James fled to Holland disguised as a girl, later joining his mother in France and ending up fighting with…"