A blog from Gale International
|By Julia de Mowbray, Publisher at Gale | September 2023 marks the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Lee Kuan Yew (1923—2015), the founder of the People’s Action Party, Prime Minister of Singapore between 1959 and 1990, and a Member of the Singapore Parliament until his death in 2015. This month also sees the launch … Read more
|By Emery Pan, Gale Asia Associate Development Editor in Beijing | The year 2023 marks the tenth anniversary of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). A decade ago, Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed the “Silk Road Economic Belt” and the “Twenty-first Century Maritime Silk Road” in September and October 2013, respectively, which have since evolved … Read more
│By Ava Nichols, Senior Gale Ambassador at the University of Aberdeen│ The film industry has taken great steps and developed in numerous ways since its creation in the nineteenth century. Using Gale Primary Sources collections, I decided to explore how the discussion of film in newspapers – be that promoting or reviewing individual films, or … Read more
|By James Carney, Senior Gale Ambassador at King’s College London| Decolonisation refers to the process of attempting to undo the social, political, economic and cultural effects of imperialism on former colonies. Having just completed my undergraduate degree in English and Classical Literature at King’s College London, I have come to appreciate language and the written … Read more
|By Lola Hylander, Gale Ambassador at University College London| Four years ago, when I began studying History and Politics of the Americas at University College London, I had little prior knowledge about the region of Latin America and the Caribbean. I’d studied History A-Level in the UK, but the syllabus focused mainly on European revolutions. … Read more
|By Clem Delany, Acquisitions Editor, Gale Primary Sources| Last week, I was lucky enough to go to India for the first time. I visited Mangalore in the state of Karnataka, as well as Kerala with its famous backwaters and cool green tea plantations in old hill stations. The British planted pine forests there and hid … Read more
│By Ellen Boucher, Gale Ambassador at the University of Bristol│ A source often overlooked in the study of the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans is slave narratives. They are crucial to the work of decolonising the history of slavery because they allow us to remove the emphasis on those in power and give agency to … Read more
│By Julia de Mowbray, Publisher at Gale│ Gale’s first online archive of British Colonial Office files, State Papers Online Colonial, has just been released. The first four parts will publish the Colonial Office (CO) files relating to the administration of Britain’s colonies in Asia, namely, Hong Kong, Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak, Brunei, British North Borneo, Ceylon, … Read more
|By Winnie Fok, Assistant Editor, Gale Asia| “Coolies” (a historical term for indentured workers) are a relic of the past, no longer around today. This blog post captures the fascinating and tumultuous history of the coolie trade in brief, through the valuable primary source materials found in China and the Modern World: Imperial China and … Read more
│By Emma Harris and Lindsay Whitaker-Guest, Associate Editors, Gale Primary Sources│ After the successful launch of the first Gale Primary Sources Learning Centers in Autumn 2021, Gale has released Learning Centers into a larger selection of our archives in August, with more to come in November 2022. The Learning Centers are comprehensive guides for both … Read more