Beginning as small-circulation, text-based magazines, heavy with political content, they expanded dramatically through the century to offer a mixture of politics, social comment and pure fun, delivered through a range of illustrated magazines and comics, to a host of new readers.
"It is clear that all post-Renaissance states were drawn to the concept of statecraft. At least in its English context, this statecraft drew its evidence from…"
"The key dates in the establishment of the State Papers as a formal archive are the creation of the State Paper Office in 1578 and the appropriation in 1612 of…"
"The American Radicalism Collection (ARC) at Michigan State University (MSU) Special Collections holds an impressive variety of sources on groups considered…"
"In the popular imagination—and in most textbooks and classrooms, too—slavery remains a set of static images, distant and strange…Memorable though they are…"
"In nineteenth-century journalism there was a fine line between fact and fiction. Although the ability to supply up-to-date and serious news was central to…"
Our modern-day fascination with China derives in large part from its recent rise as a modernised global power. Indeed, such terms as ‘the rise of China’ or ‘modern China’ are almost ubiquitous...
Explore our collection of contextual essays on historical figures using various archives from Gale Primary Sources product.
Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief: An Introduction to and Overview of Its First Ten Years
The Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief (CBF)...was founded in the early months of 1933 by a group of Anglo-Jewish communal leaders who represented the breadth of the liturgical spectrum and who held widely diverse political loyalties.
イギリス植民地省文書群CO 129の記録から読み取れる第二次大戦前までの初期香港史を香港大学教授ジョン・M・キャロルが解説します。
"The American Religions Collection represents a major curatorial division of the University of California, Santa Barbara Library’s Special Research Collections…"
"The Tudor century was one of rapid, profound and irreversible change. Society was turned upside down by tectonic shifts in politics and religion…"
"The story of slavery does not begin with European ships arriving on the African coast. Slavery was already prefigured by the history of social stratification…"
"No matter what aspect of later Tudor history we care to investigate, we cannot afford to ignore the Privy Council. In Sir Geoffrey Elton’s words…"
"The Nichols collection of seventeenth and eighteenth-century newspapers (1666–1737) encompasses a period about which there remains a lively debate…"
"As most researchers in the field of early modern British history are aware, the contents of the state papers…are to some extent the product of historical…"
"During the nineteenth century, there was a high rate of internal migration in Britain. The vast majority of moves took place over short distances, with people…"
Explore our collection of contextual essays on various aspects of identity, using various archives from Gale Primary Sources product.
"The first number of The Illustrated London News on 14 May 1842 reflects the newspaper’s initial, and longstanding, dedication to the illustrated coverage of…"
"Government in the early eighteenth century was a very different business from today. The size of the central administration was considerably smaller…"