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。

"From the outset of the war Punch defined itself as a source of patriotic entertainment. During the conflict Punch drew on its archives to publish…"

"A seemingly endless supply of boxes, each filled with papers to be carefully analyzed, can be a daunting sight. It is still more daunting when those boxes are…"

"The first decade and a half of the ILN’s life coincided with the slow, piecemeal process by which the British Museum took its modern shape…"

It is taken for granted in twenty-first-century Britain that the media can significantly influence the ways in which we think about ourselves and the world around us. But how would readers of nineteenth-century newspapers have described themselves?

"The Canadian Gay Liberation Movement Archives was formed by dedicated volunteers who worked around the offices of The Body Politic…"

アメリカ最大の人権擁護団体ACLUの資料をデジタル化

When Punch is mentioned in histories of the British campaign for women's suffrage it is often depicted as a univocal, and uniformly hostile, publication. In these books 'Punch's view' of women's suffrage is often represented by caricatures of suffragettes as unattractive spinsters.

"At the end of the fifteenth century Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, stated that ‘the worth of a prince was seen in the men he sent to represent him abroad’…"

"Rochford was an interesting individual. He was a musician who loved the theatre and counted the actor David Garrick and the playwright Beaumarchais…"

"First announced in the London edition of the Daily Mail on 12 January 1923, the Atlantic Edition was described as helping to…"

"During the first seventy-five years of the eighteenth century Britain emerged as the paramount world naval power. The ground work had been…"

"The invocation of humour often speaks to cultural anxieties or social concerns. As such, Punch consistently provides a counterpoint to and commentary on…"

"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…"

"For a long time the Victorian period has popularly been regarded as one in which British cookery slowly declined in quality…"

"The natural world held enormous fascination for the British in the nineteenth century. […] Nothing was more integral to this engagement with the natural world…"

"Throughout the nineteenth century, periodicals published both in Britain and in the colonies featured aspects of the imperial experience. Before the 1850…"

スミソニアン学術協会が所蔵する選りすぐりのコレクションや出版物

The papers of Mary Eleanor Gawthorpe comprise an extensive collection of personal and political material from a woman whose political involvement spanned many decades and went beyond supportive activism. Gawthorpe worked full time for several feminist and socialist organisations in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in both Great Britain and the United States of America.