I'm from the UK, I don't live in London what makes it hard to get access to any large archival storage of news articles or pages on the subject I want to do. I want to look at foreign (UK and US) perception of Japan throughout history through how newspapers covered Japan.

I was wondering if anyone could recomend any good digital archives that hold a large amount of news articles (or just primary source material like this) thats easily accessible online which one can sift through and find primary sources such as news papers easily through filters or what not?

I'm most likely going to resort to subscribing to a few newspaper companies own digital archives that they maintain themselves to get a larger more fluent and chronological order of newspapers from a certain newspaper brand that can help my research.

However, again to avoid subscribing to multiple news paper own digital platform i am wondering if anyone has any public archives that beholds a large data base of news articles? I know pretty much any archive has this If you delve it deep enough but am curious to see if there's a public domain newspaper related archive or a large archive such as LOC (Library of Congress) that gives access to multiple different prestigious news firm archival history that you can look at in bulk and focus on a good chunk of its history (e.g 1870-80).

My grandmother was a german teenager of jewish descent during the war, which made her, her sister and her father a target of persecution by the nazis. She and her sister somehow survived the entirety of the war hiding in Berlin, while his father wasn't as lucky, getting caught at some point and sent to a concentration camp. Fortunately, he did survive, and the three of them were able to reunite after everything was over.

This question popped up in my mind the other day, when me and my father were talking about my grandma (her mother, who passed away more than a decade ago) and the hell she must have gone through during WWII. When I referred to her as a holocaust survivor, my father was quick to correct me saying that the label wasn't adequate, as she had never gotten imprisoned at a camp. I argued saying that really wasn't important, since she was the victim of ethnic persecution, probably facing hardships and atrocities I could never begin to imagine. He did comply to that, but still insisted that "Holocaust survivor" wouldn't be the correct term for her experience, technically speaking.

Thus, I wanted to hear some other opinions on the matter, as human experiences throughout historical events of this magnitude tend to be incredibly complex and hard to categorize in labels.

Jeaneane Fowler, in “Hinduism: Beliefs and Practices” states that Hinduism is “probably the oldest religion in the world.” It seems like it belongs to a period that parallels the development of religions in Egypt (Ra, Osiris, etc) and Greece (Olympian deities) that fell out of favor when confronted with Christianity and later Islam. Yet Hinduism survived both the development and growth of Buddhism and later the spread of Islam in India. How did Hinduism hold onto it’s followers and become the world’s oldest religion?

In movies and TV depicting the ‘20s through the ‘50s, dating is portrayed as a casual situation, until someone (the boy usually) asks the other to “go steady.” Until that point, girls went on dates with multiple boys/whoever asked them/whoever they approved of. As a slight metaphor for this, consider the concept of a “dance card,” where often in movies a boy (or man) will ask a girl (or woman) to “save him a dance” and she’ll reply that she’ll have to find a spot to include him.

Today that seems not to be the case, with “serial monogamy” being the norm — except in cases where people are not dating seriously at all. “Casual sex” seems to have taken the place of “casual dating.”

So: is the media depiction of the dating situation back in the latter first half of the 20th century accurate? And if so, is it accurate that the dating scene has changed since then, and if so, why?

Specifically, was princess Fatemeh Khanum actually considered pretty? Some of the claims made about her beauty sound dubious and more like urban legends. Like men killing themselves after being rejected by her. So is there any actual history to back these claims up or is it just fluff?

I think I get the idea that was imposed on the people. You pay to live on the land protected by the kings soldiers, right?

Okay, so what was holding you down?
Today, we are way to comfortable being attached to plumbing and electricity, but neither of those things were holding you down back then. And if you had friends, why wouldn't your friends move as well? Surely you could just do what was done before you to get you to where you currently live right?

Many people in india say it is a hoax created to divide india between north [fair skinned , upper caste ] and South India [ darker skinned , lower caste ]. While some say rig veda and other vedas have come from Zoroastrianism through indo aryan invasion , but in fact hinduism is older than Zoroastrianism. If you want more info you can see abhijit Chada YouTube video on indo aryan hoax .

They were far away from other countries, dealing with the great depression, not exactly a superpower at the time compared to the European powers, with no real threat of war. It's not like other countries such as Argentina, or Turkey, or Sweden built up such military force around this time. So why did the US have the capability and drive to build up such a massive military power conveniently timed to play such a pivotal role in WWII? Google has failed me thus far in answering this question so I was hoping some real people could help.

In A Christmas Carol (1938) the ghost of Christmas past mentions "the poor" find it cheaper to bring their Christmas dinners to the baker, rather than cook them at home. The Cratchit family opts to bake their goose at the baker rather than make it at home. There was also a sign that says "Save Your Pennies. Let Us Cook Christmas Dinner, 6d [sixpense]" outside the baker.

Is this just part of the plot or was it actually common practice for "the poor" to do this? How could it be cheaper to hire pay someone else to cook your Christmas dinner (and pay for labor), rather than do it at home?

It seems bizarre to me that despite the huge advancements made in popular music, the most played Christmas music is still from the 1950s.

Is there a cultural reason why so many musicians and record companies were writing and producing original Christmas music during this time?

Despite many mythological deities being women, it seems like they were given half the rights men had.

I've tried looking at multiple places for answers, but nobody can tell me WHY.

In many movies there are scenes right before a battle, where soldiers beat their shields with swords or spears or they strike the ground with their spears.

How accurate is that? Was it used to motivate themselves or to scare their opponents or both?

What other ways were used for motivation right before the battle?

So I was reading Maus and went to search more about the subject, found out that most countries in Europe, but specially Eastern Europe, helped willingly the Nazis.

Why was Europe so eager to help their enemies track Jews? Why did the polish, Latvians and Ukrainians specifically helped enthusiastically?

I’m sure someone asked about this before, but to what extent did the effort expended by the Nazis in the Holocaust detract from their war effort and their overall economy, once we factor in the gains from forced labour? And more in general, was there ever an “economic rationale” to the Holocaust?

I need to know this information for the personal writing project I’m working on, but i’m not finding a a lot of clear, succinct sources that lay these steps out plainly. If anyone is knowledgeable on catholicism in 17th century England and can tell me what one would need to do to become a catholic priest back then i would be forever indebted to you!

is something that we always discuss with my family, but we never understand why the city of rome is 4 meters underground

I’ve read that the reason that india and china have huge population is due to their large farmable lands (around 2 large river systems). The reason they have higher population today is a function of the historical headstart. If that is so, then why isn’t North American population as big or bigger given that they have as much farmable land with Mississippi River.

From what I read of the stories of the Prophet and the Sahaba, the average person didnt really have a salary. There was no concept of a set amount of money. The society did seem a bit dependent on bartership.

2.5% is pretty difficult to calculate as well. Do we have any historical sources on how they managed this? Was the average muslim advanced enough in mathematics to be able to calculate this sum?

How about in the middle ages, the Ottoman empires, or the Mughals. Also did the Kings and the Sultans adhere to this as well?