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Learn about the origins and development of newspapers in Britain from the 17th to the 21st century. The first newspaper in English was printed in Rome in 1620, while the first official journal of record was The London Gazette in 1665.
A comprehensive list of British periodicals established in the 19th century, excluding daily newspapers. Find titles, dates, formats, and editors of magazines, journals, and reviews from 1800 to 1890.
The Graphic was a British weekly illustrated newspaper founded in 1869 by William Luson Thomas. It competed with the Illustrated London News and employed many famous artists, such as Luke Fildes and Hubert von Herkomer.
A comprehensive list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals from various countries and regions, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Some newspapers are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases.
Learn about the history, digitisation and subscription costs of the British Newspaper Archive web site, which provides access to searchable digitized archives of British and Irish newspapers. The web page also covers the reception, references and external links of the archive.
Eliza Lynn Linton joined the newspaper in 1849 and, in doing so, became the UK's first salaried woman journalist on a daily newspaper. The Morning Chronicle was suspended with the 21 December 1862 issue and resumed with the 9 January 1864 issue. Then it was suspended again with the 10 January 1864 issue and again resumed with the 2 March 1865 ...
The press was now free. Many people began to print their own newsbooks, free of any worry of prosecution, but only a few publications continued past the first few issues. Civil War era newsbooks contained information that affected everybody. They were available for a penny or twopence a copy. Some titles sold as many as 1,500 copies. [7]
The newspaper was founded as a Tory newspaper by a printer called William Hodgetts in 1825 to provide an alternative to The Times, whose editorial line was controversial locally. [1] Historical copies of the Birmingham Journal, dating back to its first issue in 1825, are available to search and view in digitised form at The British Newspaper ...