A blog from Gale International
| By Alice Shadbolt, Gale Ambassador at the University of Liverpool | Between 1915 and 1940, tuberculosis posed one of the most urgent public health crises for North America and Europe. However, its impact was far from evenly distributed. In the United States, mortality rates amongst Black communities were consistently higher than those recorded amongst … Read more
│By Georgia Winrow, Gale Ambassador at Lancaster University│ Whilst we may think of how diseases such as the bubonic plague, typhoid or tuberculosis were discussed when studying medicine in early modern Europe, we often do not consider how significantly understandings of sexual and reproductive health developed during this period. The specialism of women’s health in … Read more
By Dr Lucy Jane Sussex The term ‘Victorian values’ reappears every now and then in twenty-first century media. Usually, it is politically charged, signifying a nostalgia for better days, to be found in the long nineteenth century (1790-1914). Here be, like dragons, the virtues of hard work, morality, piety, and none of this new-fangled debauchery.
│By Poppy Sargent, Gale Ambassador at the University of Exeter│ The first year ‘Approaches to Criticism’ module taught to English students at the University of Exeter is notoriously one of the hardest compulsory modules, spanning across both first and second term. Throughout this module, you learn to think about yourselves as infinitely complex social and … Read more
│By Olivia McDermott, Gale Ambassador at the University of Liverpool│ As International Women’s Day begins to approach, it seems fitting that we should reflect upon the many ways in which the female experience has changed over time. Historically, from a patriarchal lens, the female experience has been aligned with ideas of subjugation, inferiority, and passivity. … Read more
│By Lebohang Seganoe, Gale Ambassador at the University of Johannesburg│ As a child, you absorb everything you are taught within the community you are raised in. Because your mind is still developing you rarely question how different someone’s reality might be from your own. I grew up in a society that had strong views on … Read more
By Rebecca Bowden, Associate Acquisitions Editor If one was researching current affairs, political history, or a particular literary period, Gale Primary Sources would be an obvious place to look. It is full of useful archives, from newspapers like The Times and The Independent, to huge collections of diverse primary sources, such as Nineteenth Century Collections … Read more