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This letterpress mode of newspaper production was supplanted in the 1970s and 1980s by the cleaner, more economical offset litho process. The history of British newspapers begins in the 17th century with the emergence of regular publications covering news and gossip. The relaxation of government censorship in the late 17th century led to a rise ...
This is a list of British periodicals established in the 19th century, excluding daily newspapers.. The periodical press flourished in the 19th century: the Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals plans to eventually list more 100,000 titles; the current Series 3 lists 73,000 titles. 19th-century periodicals have been the focus of extensive indexing efforts, such as that of ...
The Graphic was a British weekly illustrated newspaper, first published on 4 December 1869 by William Luson Thomas 's company Illustrated Newspapers Ltd. Thomas's brother Lewis Samuel Thomas was a co-founder. It was set up as a rival to the popular Illustrated London News.
Founder (s) George William MacArthur Reynolds [1] Founded. 5 May 1850 [2] Ceased publication. 18 June 1967 [3] Reynold's News was a Sunday newspaper in the United Kingdom, [4] founded as Reynolds's Weekly Newspaper[5] by George W. M. Reynolds in 1850, [6] who became its first editor. By 1870, the paper was selling more than 350,000 weekly copies.
In May 2010, a ten-year programme of digitization of the newspaper archives with commercial partner DC Thomson subsidiary Brightsolid began. [11] [12] In November 2011, BBC News reported on the launch of the British Newspaper Archive, an initiative to facilitate online access to over one million pages of pre-20th century newspapers. [13]
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
9976-1971. OCLC number. 436604553. The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays. It is a sister paper to The Guardian and The Guardian Weekly, having been acquired by their parent company, Guardian Media Group Limited, in 1993. First published in 1791, it is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper.
National Observer. (UK) The National Observer was a British newspaper published from 1888 to 1897. It began as the Scots Observer and was renamed when it moved from Edinburgh to London in 1889. [1] It was considered " conservative in its political outlook" and "liberal in its literary taste". [1]