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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 ...
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 ...
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.
The front cover of 1 October 1892 issue, showing a scene from Sydney Grundy and Arthur Sullivan's Haddon Hall created by M. Browne and Herbert Railton. The Illustrated London News founder Herbert Ingram was born in Boston, Lincolnshire, in 1811, and opened a printing, newsagent, and bookselling business in Nottingham around 1834 in partnership with his brother-in-law, Nathaniel Cooke. [2]
The Daily News. The Daily News was a national daily newspaper in the United Kingdom published from 1846 to 1930. The News was founded in 1846 by Charles Dickens, who also served as the newspaper's first editor. It was conceived as a radical rival to the right-wing Morning Chronicle. The paper was not at first a commercial success.
The Globe. (London newspaper) The Globe was a British newspaper that ran from 1803 to 1921. It was founded by Christopher Blackett, [1][2] the coal mining entrepreneur from Wylam, Northumberland, who had commissioned the first commercially useful adhesion steam locomotives in the world. [3] It merged with the Pall Mall Gazette in 1921.
The Morning Chronicle was a newspaper founded in 1769 in London. [ 1 ] It was notable for having been the first steady employer of essayist William Hazlitt as a political reporter [ 2 ] and the first steady employer of Charles Dickens as a journalist. [ 3 ] It was the first newspaper to employ a salaried woman journalist, Eliza Lynn Linton; [ 4 ...
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.