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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.
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.
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. George died in 1879, and was succeeded as editor by his brother, Edward Reynolds. [7]
As described in the first edition, for each newspaper published in 'Great Britain and Ireland and the British Isles', Mitchell aimed to list the 'leading features connected with the population, manufactures, trade, &c., of each newspaper district': 'Title, price, day and place of publication of each newspaper. Its politics.
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.
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.
Newspapers have always been the primary medium of journalists since 1700, with magazines added in the 18th century, radio and television in the 20th century, and the Internet in the 21st century. [1] London has always been the main center of British journalism, followed at a distance by Edinburgh, Belfast, Dublin, and regional cities.