150 years ago today
Posted: 08 Feb 2013 @ 00:13
Peter Street provides a sketch map
of the confident and combative mid-Victorian world that gave birth
to the Church Times
"IT WAS the best of times, it was the worst of times" - the
opening of A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens's 1859 novel on
the French Revolution - is also an apt description of the era that
brought forth the Church Times, four years later.
In 1851, London had hosted the Great Exhibition, housed in what
Punch (founded in 1841) had labelled the "Crystal Palace"
in Hyde Park. Britain demonstrated that it was the first industrial
nation: its diverse output made it ...
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