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She wrote on a range of topics, the agreement being that she visited the newspaper offices three mornings a week to write an article "on some social subject". [52] One of the first British war correspondents was the writer Lady Florence Dixie who reported on the First Boer War, 1880–1881, as field correspondent for The Morning Post.
The Illustrated London News, founded in 1842, was the world's first illustrated weekly newspaper. Reformers pressured the government and it repeatedly cut the high taxes on knowledge, including the excise duty on paper and the 5-penny stamp tax on each copy printed of a newspapers, pamphlet, advertisements and almanacs. [ 18 ]
Philip Charles Nicholas Howard (2 November 1933 – 5 October 2014) was a British journalist who worked for over fifty years at The Times. [1] [2]Howard was born in London in 1933, the son of Peter Howard, a journalist and captain of the English rugby team, and Doris Metaxa, a tennis player who was a Wimbledon ladies doubles champion. [2]
The Oxford Journal was a free newspaper distributed throughout the city of Oxford in the county of Oxfordshire, UK. It was published under licence by Taylor Newspapers Ltd (who also publish other free newspapers including the Basingstoke Observer , Oxford Property Weekly and Auto Weekly ).
The News Revolution in England: Cultural Dynamics of Daily Information (1996) Walker, Robin B. "The newspaper press in the reign of William III." Historical Journal 17#4 (1974): 691–709. in JSTOR; Williams, Keith. The English Newspaper: An Illustrated History to 1900 (1977) Williams, Kevin. Read All About it: a History of the British ...
Owen Oglethorpe, academic and Catholic Bishop, President of Magdalen College, Oxford (1536–1552 and 1553–1555), Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University (1551–1552) Robert Parker, clergyman and scholar; Henry Phillpotts, Anglican Bishop of Exeter, 1830–1869; Reginald Pole, Cardinal in the Church of Rome; Jeremy Sheehy, Anglican priest and ...
Earlier this year Lord Patten announced he would be retiring from the position after 20 years.
The Oxford Magazine was established in 1883 and published weekly during Oxford University terms. [1] Contributors included: J. R. R. Tolkien, [2] whose character Tom Bombadil, who later featured in The Lord of the Rings, first appeared in the magazine around 1933.