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|By Paul Schummer – Senior Manager, Gale Content Production, and Chris Houghton – Head of Academic Partnerships| We often use tools without understanding how they work. Chris, for example, has a hazy memory of learning how a vacuum cleaner works in a school physics lesson, but if you asked him to explain it now, he’d ... Read more The post Queen Victoria’s Handwriting and State Papers Deciphered…
│By Georgia Platt, Gale Ambassador at Lancaster University│ Six months ago, I knew nothing about Digital Humanities or text mining. It wasn’t really a topic covered in my undergraduate degree in History, and I’d always been a bit unsure of the place technology has in historical research. Then I began my MA in Digital Humanities, ... Read more The post Uncovering New Angles and Arguments with Text…
│By Matt Hudson, Gale Ambassador at the University of Durham│ October 3rd, 1990 became a symbol of post-Cold War optimism. As the reunification of Germany was marked with joyous celebrations, liberalism had emerged victorious. The collapse of the stagnant East German regime heralded not just the end of totalitarianism and censorship, but also the triumph ... Read more The post History, Politics…
|By Chris Houghton, Head of Academic Partnerships| In June, Gale delivered its fourth Hacking History event at the Dahod Family Alumni Center at the Castle, in central Boston. The hackathon showed participants that digital humanities is not just about using technology in the humanities. It’s about building practical, transferable skills, applicable in many careers: finding ... Read more The post…
| 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 The post Benevolence and…
| By Masaki Morisawa, Product Solutions Consultant | On the sunny weekend of 9–10 May 2026, the 95th National Conference of the Socio-Economic History Society (SEHS) took place at Senshu University’s suburban Ikuta campus. More than 300 members gathered for the event, presenting and discussing topics as varied as promissory notes in Edo-period Japan, American ... Read more The post Gale Fellows…
│By Eleanor Turner, Gale Ambassador at the University of Leeds│ Declassified Documents Online: Twentieth-Century British Intelligence offers unique insight into how governments understand and respond to global security threats. The emergence of nuclear weapons in 1945 fundamentally altered the structure of international politics, leading governments to rethink what military conflict could escalate…
│By Anushka Srivastava, Gale Ambassador at the University of Delhi, India│ India-Africa relations are strengthening in a new global scenario, driven by economic complementarity, strategic alignment, and a shared focus on multilateralism. In 2025, India strengthened its ties with Africa through several high-level visits. Prime Minister Narendra Modi undertook a significant five-nation tour in July…
│By Benjamin Armus, Gale Intern│ From the raucous atmosphere of college sports to emergent subversive online cultures, the university experience has always been defined by a tension between institutional discipline and youthful rebellion. However, a rejection of decorum is by no means a modern invention; the halls of Oxford and Cambridge four hundred years ago ... Read more The post Laughing at…
│By Eleanor Leese, Acquisitions Editor, Gale Primary Sources│ As an editor at Gale, I’ve been lucky enough to visit some of the most prestigious archives in the country, but nothing has been as exciting as when I was invited to see the conservation lab at the British Library. By sheer good luck, the week that ... Read more The post Small Books, Big Ideas: Eighteenth‑Century Miniatures in…
