Examining press reviews and accounts of the Japanese Village in London from newspapers and periodicals in 1885....
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In the dying days of empire, the British financed a global cinema service. Introduction It’s 1945. A...
Empire was a consistent theme in these hundreds of pamphlets. In the Great War, the British government...
A significant portion of the wall still exists, particularly the mid-section, and for much of its length...
First encountered in the 17th century in the form of bhang, an intoxicating edible which had been...
The Wars of the Roses (1455-1487 CE) was a series of dynastic conflicts between the monarchy and...
Bancroft’s activity as a double agent was not revealed until 1891, when British diplomatic papers were released...
The term is misleading since it implies a notion of a self-identifying unity that did not exist....
During this period England had a centralized, well organized, and effective government, largely a result of the...
The regalia includes several medieval articles and gemstones. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction The Crown Jewels of the...
They were appalled at the state of party politics, class conflict, and the economic and moral condition...
Looking at of the Gentleman’s Magazine, printers of county histories, collectors of manuscripts, and founder members of...
The impact of the early railway was registered as both exciting and horrifyingly destructive by Victorian writers....
William Daniell’s prints of the new docks represented London’s modernization in particularly exultant terms. Introduction From 1800,...
Exploring the events that led to the reissue and revival of Magna Carta by Henry III and...
Like its American counterpart, the burgeoning British underground scene held comics in high esteem. By John Harris...
Looking at crime in Elizabethan England and the brutal punishments offenders received. Thieves and Pickpockets The crowded...
The Gordon Riots began when England was involved in the American Revolutionary War with England virtually isolated...
The conquest saw the Norman elite replace that of the Anglo-Saxons. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction The Norman...
An accomplished diplomat, gifted military commander, and ruthless overlord. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction William the Conqueror (c....
There is little evidence remaining from the pre-Roman worship, as they left little footprints of their spiritual...
Examining what prompted the backlash of black British people against the police. By Rowena Hillel and Vicky...
The partition of India led to more than a million deaths. A scholar argues how British royal,...
During the Georgian period a host of entertainments were available to those seeking relief from their everyday...
Originally published by Newberry Digital Collections for the Classroom, 09.26.2017, Newberry Library, republished with permission for educational,...
Exploring Britain’s railways from 1812 to 2007. 1812: The First Effective Locomotive-Powered Railway The coal-carrying Middleton Railway,...
The Anishinaabeg played an outsized role in world affairs. When a young George Washington approached the forks...
From the coins we count to the democracy we practice, the mother country’s influence is holding strong...
More than seventy British men and women were convicted – mostly in secret trials – of working...
Britain’s prehistoric landscapes are depicted in prints and drawings across the British Library’s collections. The prehistoric monuments...