The paper began publication on 18 February 1821 as "The New Observer", but from 21 April its title was changed to the "Independent Observer". Its founder, Henry White, chose the name in an apparent attempt to take advantage of the success of the "Observer", which had been founded in 1791, although there was no connection between the two papers. On 20 October 1822 it was reborn as "The Sunday Times", although it had no relationship with "The Times". In January 1823, White sold the paper to Daniel Whittle Harvey, a radical politician. Under its new owner, "The Sunday Times" notched up several firsts: a wood engraving it published of the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1838 was the largest illustration to have appeared in a British newspaper; in 1841, it became one of the first papers to serialise a novel: William Harrison Ainsworth's "Old St Paul's".
Founding and early history (1821–1915)
The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times | Founding and early history (1821–1915)
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Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara
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Mikael Blomkvist's investigation to find out what happened to a woman from a wealthy family who disappeared 40 years prior. He recruits the help of Salander, a computer hacker.
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Stockholm, Sweden; Uppsala; Zurich, Switzerland; and finally Oslo, Norway.
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Reznor and Ross
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Posthumously, in Swedish in 2006 and in English in January 2009.
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The English version immediately became a number 1 bestseller - Joan Smith at "The Sunday Times" said that this novel was “even more gripping and astonishing than the first”.
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In July 2011, it was implicated in the wider News International phone hacking scandal which primarily involved the "News of the World".
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18 February 1821
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Henry White
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The paper began publication on 18 February 1821 as "The New Observer", but from 21 April its title was changed to the "Independent Observer". Its founder, Henry White, chose the name in an apparent attempt to take advantage of the success of the "Observer", which had been founded in 1791, although there was no connection between the two papers. On 20 October 1822 it was reborn as "The Sunday Times", although it had no relationship with "The Times". In January 1823, White sold the paper to Daniel Whittle Harvey, a radical politician. Under its new owner, "The Sunday Times" notched up several firsts: a wood engraving it published of the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1838 was the largest illustration to have appeared in a British newspaper; in 1841, it became one of the first papers to serialise a novel: William Harrison Ainsworth's "Old St Paul's".
The Sunday Times | Founding and early history (1821–1915)
The paper was bought in 1887 by Alice Anne Cornwell who had made a fortune in mining in Australia and floating the Midas Mine Company of the London Stock Exchange. She bought the paper to promote her new company, The British and Australasian Mining Investment Company, and as a gift to her lover Frederick Stannard (‘Phil’) Robinson. Robinson was installed as editor and she married him in 1894.
The Sunday Times | Founding and early history (1821–1915)
"The Sunday Times" was founded by W. H. Leighton Bailey. It was first published on 15 November 1885 by Charles Mark Curtiss, and ceased with no. 2389 on 1 June 1930. "The Sunday Times" was controlled by the Evans family for over 30 years, until 1916 when the Sunday Times Newspaper Company, as well as the company's premises, were sold to Hugh D. McIntosh. In 1927, McIntosh sold his holdings in the Sunday Times Newspaper Company to Beckett's Newspapers, with J. H. C. Sleeman as Managing Director. "The Sunday Times" ceased publication in 1930, with staff informed on 8 June.
The Sunday Times (Sydney) | History
The "Church Times" was founded on 7 February 1863 by George Josiah Palmer, a printer. It fought for the Anglo-Catholic cause in the Church of England at a time when priests were being harried and imprisoned over such matters as lighting candles on altars and wearing vestments, which brought them into conflict with the Public Worship Regulation Act 1874, intended to “put down” Ritualism. The paper defended the spiritual independence of the Church of England in spite of the Church’s Established status. Many of the ceremonial and doctrinal matters that the paper championed are now accepted as part of mainstream Anglicanism.
Church Times | History
Thomas Stock (1750–1803) established the first Sunday school in the United Kingdom.
Thomas Stock | Introduction
1906–1909: Founding editor George Herbert Kingswell launched the "Sunday Times" and "Rand Daily Mail" for owner Sir Abe Bailey. Kingswell was initially offered the job at The Rand Daily Mail (The Fourth Estate, Joel Mervis), but instead looked to create a weekly paper. 1909–1910: Lewis Rose Macleod named editor. 1910–1942: Joseph Langley Levy, a drama critic and leading cultural figure in Johannesburg, was born in Liverpool, England on 25 May 1887. He was editor of the "Sunday Times" for 32 years, during which circulation rose from 35,000 to 150,000, penetrating every province and reaching towns and villages scattered over an area of almost half-a-million square miles.
Sunday Times (South Africa) | Editors
There was a further change of ownership in 1903, and then in 1915 the paper was bought by William Berry and his brother, Gomer Berry, later ennobled as Lord Camrose and Viscount Kemsley respectively. Under their ownership, "The Sunday Times" continued its reputation for innovation: on 23 November 1930, it became the first Sunday newspaper to publish a 40-page issue and on 21 January 1940, news replaced advertising on the front page. In 1943, the Kemsley Newspapers Group was established, with "The Sunday Times" becoming its flagship paper. At this time, Kemsley was the largest newspaper group in Britain. On 12 November 1945, Ian Fleming, who later created James Bond, joined the paper as foreign manager (foreign editor) and special writer.
The Sunday Times | The Kemsley years (1915–59)
The "Inverell Times" was established on 12 June 1875 by Thomas Harland, a former school teacher, and Colin Ross. Kate Bond was proprietor of the paper for eight years after the death of her husband, William Henry Bond, in 1895.
Inverell Times | History
The "Sunday Times" was first published on 4 February 1906 as a weekly, sister publication of the "Rand Daily Mail" which at the time was "standing alone" against its rival Transvaal Leader. Founding editor George Herbert Kingswell introduced the slogan "A paper for the People". It was later changed to "The Paper for the People", a slogan that is still in use today. For the first edition of the paper, published on 4 February 1906, 11,600 copies were printed and soon sold out, forcing the paper to print an additional 5000 copies. By November 1909 the paper sales had risen to 35 000.
Sunday Times (South Africa) | History
"The Daily Universal Register" published from 1785 and become known as "The Times" from 1788. In 1817 Thomas Barnes became general editor; he was a political radical, a sharp critic of parliamentary hypocrisy and a champion of freedom of the press. Under Barnes and his successor in 1841, John Thadeus Delane, the influence of "The Times" rose to great heights, especially in politics and in the financial district (the City of London). It spoke for reform. Due to Barnes's influential support for Catholic Emancipation in Ireland, his colleague Lord Lyndhurst described him as "the most powerful man in the country".
History of journalism in the United Kingdom | "The Times"
He was a gifted orator and consistently took a moderate radical line, advocating limited reform both of Parliament and of the Church, and was at times bitterly at odds with the Whig government. In 1839 he was one of the MPs who took part in the conference with William Lovett's London Working Men's Association from which the Chartists emerged. In 1821, Harvey founded a Sunday newspaper, "The New Observer", which the following year adopted its present title, "The Sunday Times". On one occasion he was imprisoned when the paper libelled the King, George IV.
Daniel Whittle Harvey | Introduction
Freedom of the press was established in Great Britain in 1695. Popular British daily national newspapers include "The Times", "The Sun", "Daily Mail", "The Daily Telegraph", "Daily Mirror", "Daily Express" and "The Guardian". Founded by publisher John Walter in 1785, "The Times" is the first newspaper to have borne that name, lending it to numerous other papers around the world, and is the originator of the widely used Times Roman typeface, created by Victor Lardent and commissioned by Stanley Morison in 1931. Newspaper and publishing magnate Alfred Harmsworth played a major role in "shaping the modern press" – Harmsworth introduced or harnessed "broad contents, exploitation of advertising revenue to subsidize prices, aggressive marketing, subordinate regional markets, independence from party control" – and was called "the greatest figure who ever strode down Fleet Street." "The Economist" was founded by James Wilson in 1843, and the daily "Financial Times" was founded in 1888.
Culture of the United Kingdom | Print
Established by Frederick Vosper in the 1890s, "The Sunday Times" became a vehicle for the harassment of C. Y. O'Connor and the proposed Goldfields Water Supply Scheme in the late 1890s until O'Connor's death by suicide in 1902. A subsequent government inquiry found no justification for Vosper's campaign against O'Connor. The paper was purchased from Vosper's estate by James MacCallum Smith and Arthur Reid in 1901. In 1912 MacCallum Smith became sole proprietor and managing director, remaining in that role until 1935, as well as being a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly for 20 years. A. T. Chandler succeeded J.
The Sunday Times (Western Australia) | History
The hymn “Onward, Christian Soldiers” was first published in the "Church Times" (15 October 1864). Edward Heath, the future British Prime Minister, was news editor of the "Church Times" from February 1948 to September 1949. His work was “a mixture of administration, reporting, and sub-editing”. His assignments for the paper included covering the 1948 Anglo-Catholic Congress and Wand's Mission to London. N.T. Wright (Tom Wright) was a weekly devotional columnist (Sunday’s Readings) from 1995 to 2000. He has said that writing the columns gave him the "courage" to embark upon his popular For Everyone (SPCK) series of commentaries on New Testament books.
Church Times | Historical
"The Times" faced financial extinction in 1890 under Arthur Fraser Walter, but it was rescued by an energetic editor, Charles Frederic Moberly Bell. During his tenure (1890–1911), "The Times" became associated with selling the "Encyclopædia Britannica" using aggressive American marketing methods introduced by Horace Everett Hooper and his advertising executive, Henry Haxton. Due to legal fights between the "Britannica's" two owners, Hooper and Walter Montgomery Jackson, "The Times" severed its connection in 1908 and was bought by pioneering newspaper magnate, Alfred Harmsworth, later Lord Northcliffe. In editorials published on 29 and 31 July 1914, Wickham Steed, the "Times's" Chief Editor, argued that the British Empire should enter World War I.
The Times | 1890 to 1981
The "Daily Telegraph and Courier" was founded by Colonel Arthur B. Sleigh in June 1855 to air a personal grievance against the future commander-in-chief of the British Army, Prince George, Duke of Cambridge. Joseph Moses Levy, the owner of "The Sunday Times", agreed to print the newspaper, and the first edition was published on 29 June 1855. The paper cost 2d and was four pages long. Nevertheless, the first edition stressed the quality and independence of its articles and journalists: However, the paper was not a success, and Sleigh was unable to pay Levy the printing bill. Levy took over the newspaper, his aim being to produce a cheaper newspaper than his main competitors in London, the "Daily News" and "The Morning Post", to expand the size of the overall market.
The Daily Telegraph | Founding and early history
Since the mid-1950s, the paper’s sympathies have broadened, embracing the principle of diversity in the worldwide Anglican Communion, and looking more favourably on other Christian denominations. The paper carries more editorial and advertising than any of its main rivals for an Anglican readership. The paper has always been independent from the church hierarchy. From its foundation until 1989 it was owned by the Palmer family, ending with Dr Bernard Palmer, who combined the tasks of owner and editor for the final 20 years. He sold it to the charity Hymns Ancient & Modern, then chaired by Dr Henry Chadwick.
Church Times | History
The newspaper was founded by Tom Rubython in order to provide a Sunday alternative to the "Financial Times", achieving sales of around 150,000 on launch, falling to fewer than 20,000 within months. In 1997 the title was bought by the Barclay Brothers, David and Frederick Barclay, who at the time owned "The European" newspaper and subsequently, "The Daily Telegraph" and "The Scotsman". It was re-launched on 15 February 1998 with an exclusive interview with Gordon Brown, who promised a budget tailored towards the business community. "The Sunday Business" became a critical success and within its first two years of production had won numerous industry awards, including Newspaper of The Year (1999) and Newspaper Design of the Year (1998, 2000).
Sunday Business | History
Daniel Whittle Harvey (10 January 1786 – 24 February 1863) was a Radical English politician who founded The Sunday Times newspaper and was the first Commissioner of the City of London Police. Harvey trained as a lawyer, and became a Fellow of the Inner Temple in 1818, but was twice refused admission to the bar. He first stood for Parliament in 1812 as Radical candidate for Colchester, and was defeated, but secured election for the same borough in 1818. At the 1820 election he was deprived of victory when his qualification proved defective, but he was re-elected in 1826 and for several elections thereafter; he subsequently also represented Southwark.
Daniel Whittle Harvey | Introduction
The following month, circulation reached 500,000. On 28 September 1958 the paper launched a separate Review section, becoming the first newspaper to publish two sections regularly.
The Sunday Times | The Kemsley years (1915–59)
"The Times" was founded by publisher John Walter on 1 January 1785 as "The Daily Universal Register," with Walter in the role of editor. Walter had lost his job by the end of 1784 after the insurance company for which he worked went bankrupt due to losses from a Jamaican hurricane. Unemployed, Walter began a new business venture. At that time, Henry Johnson invented the logography, a new typography that was reputedly faster and more precise (although three years later, it was proved less efficient than advertised). Walter bought the logography's patent and with it opened a printing house to produce books.
The Times | 1785 to 1890
Joseph Paul Christopher Hatton (3 February 1837 (baptised in Andover 22 March 1837) – 31 July 1907) was an English novelist and journalist. He was Editor of "The Sunday Times" from 1874 to 1881.
Joseph Hatton | Introduction
The founders of the paper were former members of the left-wing group Big Flame. They decided that a left-wing mass-circulation tabloid Sunday newspaper was possible and endeavoured to start one. The idea of the paper was originally thought up by Benjamin Lowe. The leaders were John Pilger as editor-in-chief and Alan Hayling, but Pilger left before the newspaper was launched. The decision to base its headquarters in Manchester was criticised as it was away from the centre of national political activity. The paper gave a controlling interest to a collective of workers and its share issue raised £6.5 million from trade unions and Labour local authority pension funds.
News on Sunday | Origins
George Josiah Palmer (1828-1892) was the founder of "Church Times".
George Josiah Palmer | Introduction
Born in Chapelizod, County Dublin, the son of Alfred and Geraldine Harmsworth, he was educated at Stamford School in Lincolnshire, England, from 1876 and at Henley House School in Kilburn, London from 1878. A master at Henley House who was to prove important to his future was J. V. Milne, the father of A. A. Milne, who according to H. G. Wells was at school with him at the time and encouraged him to start the school magazine. In 1880 he first visited the Sylvan Debating Club, founded by his father, and of which he later served as Treasurer. Beginning as a freelance journalist, he initiated his first newspaper, "Answers" (original title: "Answers to Correspondents"), and was later assisted by his brother Harold, who was adept in business matters.
Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe | Early life and success
The paper was founded in 1865 by John Corlett, of Charlton Court, East Sutton, Kent, who was both its editor and its proprietor, and by Dr Joseph Henry Shorthouse. Corlett also wrote a column in the paper called 'Our Note Book' and was associated with it from 1865 to 1913. "The Sporting Times" was published on a Saturday, and its competitors included "The Field", "The Sportsman", the "Sporting Life", and "Bell's Life in London". According to Alexander Andrews's "Chapters in the History of British Journalism", the paper thrived "less upon its racing news than upon its profusion of coarse and scurrilous scraps of tittle-tattle, representing 'society journalism' in its most degraded form".
The Sporting Times | History
For much of its early life, the profits of "The Times" were very large and the competition minimal, so it could pay far better than its rivals for information or writers. Beginning in 1814, the paper was printed on the new steam-driven cylinder press developed by Friedrich Koenig. In 1815, "The Times" had a circulation of 5,000. Thomas Barnes was appointed general editor in 1817. In the same year, the paper's printer James Lawson, died and passed the business onto his son John Joseph Lawson (1802–1852). Under the editorship of Barnes and his successor in 1841, John Thadeus Delane, the influence of "The Times" rose to great heights, especially in politics and amongst the City of London.
The Times | 1785 to 1890
"The Day" was founded in July 1881 as a mouthpiece of the local Republican Party in an era when many American newspapers served political parties. It was owned by a wealthy mercantile family in New London. In 1889, the original publisher, Maj. John A. Tibbits, left the paper to take a government post in England. The paper struggled for a few years until the family convinced Theodore Bodenwein to purchase the paper. He purchased it in 1891, agreeing to change his political affiliation to Republican in order to secure a loan to purchase the paper. He remained the publisher until his death in 1939.
The Day (New London) | History
E. Webb as editor around 1920, and was an effective promoter of MacCallum Smith's secessionist views. In 1935, a syndicate led by Jack Simons and including Victor Courtney and mining entrepreneur Claude de Bernales purchased Western Press Limited, the publisher of the paper, for £55,000. Simons was chairman and managing director until his death in 1949 when Courtney took control. In 1955 Courtney sold Western Press to Rupert Murdoch's News Limited.
The Sunday Times (Western Australia) | History
In 1849 he started a Ragged School in Spitalfields and on 7 January 1850 he opened a Middle School for Boys in Rodney Street along with Fr Worthy. In 1856 the Catholic Reformatory Association was established with Nugent as secretary. Nugent was named as the owner and editor of the Northern Press in 1859, and in 1860 he founded "The Catholic Times" and a number of other publications.
James Nugent | Introduction
The paper was founded in 1965 by a group of five men: advertising salesman Richard Addison, Gerald McKnight, onetime editor of the Sunday Dispatch; David English, later to become Sir David English, and South African millionaire lawyers Rayne Kruger and Anthony Aaronson. The paper was founded with one manager, one reporter, one advertising representative, a secretary, a part-time distribution manager, photographer and fashion writer, and 140 boys to deliver the 29,000 copies. The newspaper office, in Orpington, was above a hairdressers in Chislehurst Road. The paper was distributed for free, an unusual step at the time. Early contributors included Norris McWhirter and Ross McWhirter.
News Shopper | Beginnings
On the "Morning Post" he was employed sixteen years, then for three or four years on the "Courier", a government paper, as sub-editor. In 1828 he bought a share in the "Sunday Times", the tone of which paper he raised as a literary and dramatic organ, Horace Smith, the Rev. T. Dale, Alfred Crowquill, E. L. Blanchard, Gilbert à Beckett, and others contributing. His "Richmond" (1827) and "The History of George Godfrey" (1828) are considered as early examples of the Newgate novel.
Thomas Gaspey | Introduction
Extract from "The Times", 20 September 1869: Fierce, fiery, and intolerant of opposition to a fault, and sincere and earnest in an age which is not remarkable for earnestness in religion, he held to the last to the via media of the Anglican Church as the strongest safeguard against Romish and Calvinistic errors, and probably rejoiced to die like Ken and Laud and scores of High Church prelates of the Stuart times, expressing his firm faith in the Anglo-Catholic Church as essentially one and the same in doctrine and faith with the undivided Church of the first five centuries of the Christian era.
Henry Phillpotts | Obituary
In 1959 the Kemsley group was bought by Lord Thomson, and in October 1960 circulation reached one million for the first time. In another first, on 4 February 1962 the editor, Denis Hamilton, launched "The Sunday Times Magazine". (At the insistence of newsagents, worried at the impact on sales of standalone magazines, it was initially called the "colour section" and did not take the name "The Sunday Times Magazine" until 9 August 1964.) The cover picture of the first issue was of Jean Shrimpton wearing a Mary Quant outfit and was taken by David Bailey. The magazine got off to a slow start, but the advertising soon began to pick up, and, over time, other newspapers launched magazines of their own.
The Sunday Times | The Thomson years (1959–81)
"The New York Times" was founded as the New-York Daily Times on September 18, 1851. Founded by journalist and politician Henry Jarvis Raymond and former banker George Jones, the "Times" was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. Early investors in the company included Edwin B. Morgan, Christopher Morgan, and Edward B. Wesley. Sold for a penny (equivalent to ¢ today), the inaugural edition attempted to address various speculations on its purpose and positions that preceded its release: In 1852, the newspaper started a western division, The Times of California, which arrived whenever a mail boat from New York docked in California.
The New York Times | Origins
The paper began in 1785 and in 1788 was renamed "The Times." In 1817, Thomas Barnes was appointed general editor; he was a political radical, a sharp critic of parliamentary hypocrisy and a champion of freedom of the press. Under Barnes and his successor in 1841, John Thadeus Delane, the influence of The Times rose to great heights, especially in politics and amongst the City of London. It spoke for reform. Peter Fraser and Edward Sterling were two noted journalists, and gained for The Times the pompous/satirical nickname 'The Thunderer' (from "We thundered out the other day an article on social and political reform.") The paper was the first in the world to reach mass circulation due to its early adoption of the steam-driven rotary printing press.
History of newspaper publishing | "The Times"
In July 1856, Shrimpton sold the newspaper to Charles Bowen and Crosbie Ward for £5000. Ward became editor and showed great talent in running the newspaper. When he lost his seat in Parliament in 1866, he could devote himself full-time to journalism and was regarded as Canterbury's best satirical writer.
Lyttelton Times | History
In 1963, the Insight investigative team was established under Clive Irving. On 27 September 1964, the "Business" section was launched, making "The Sunday Times" Britain's first regular three-section newspaper. In September 1966, Thomson bought "The Times", to form Times Newspapers Ltd (TNL). It was the first time both "The Sunday Times" and "The Times" had been brought under the same ownership. Harold Evans, editor from 1967 until 1981, established "The Sunday Times" as a leading campaigning and investigative newspaper. On 19 May 1968, the paper published its first major campaigning report on the drug Thalidomide, which had been reported by the Australian doctor William McBride in "The Lancet" in 1961 as associated with birth defects, and quickly withdrawn.
The Sunday Times | The Thomson years (1959–81)
The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register, adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. "The Times" and its sister paper "The Sunday Times" (founded in 1821) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, in turn wholly owned by News Corp. "The Times" and "The Sunday Times", which do not share editorial staff, were founded independently, and have only had common ownership since 1966. "The Times" is the first newspaper to have borne that name, lending it to numerous other papers around the world, such as "The Times of India" and "The New York Times".
The Times | Introduction
The paper launched as the "Sunday Pictorial" on 14 March 1915. Lord Rothermere – who owned the paper – introduced the "Sunday Pictorial" to the British public with the idea of striking a balance between socially responsible reporting of great issues of the day and sheer entertainment. Although the newspaper has gone through many refinements in its near 100-year history those original core values are still in place today.
Sunday Mirror | "Sunday Pictorial" (1915–1963)
Henry Wickham Steed (10 October 1871 – 13 January 1956) was an English journalist and historian. He was editor of "The Times" from 1919 to 1922.
Wickham Steed | Introduction
Robert Raikes initiated the Sunday School Movement, having inherited a publishing business from his father and become proprietor of the "Gloucester Journal" in 1757. The movement started with a school for boys in the slums. Raikes had been involved with those incarcerated at the county Poor Law (part of the jail at that time); he believed that "vice" would be better prevented than cured, with schooling as the best intervention. The best available time was Sunday, as the boys were often working in the factories the other six days. The best available teachers were lay people. The textbook was the Bible.
History of education in England | Sunday School Movement
The press was first installed in a shed on Norwich Quay. John Ingram Shrimpton, Ingram Shrimpton's son, came out on the "Charlotte Jane" with some staff for the newspaper and was manager and canvasser. James FitzGerald was the first editor for the "Lyttelton Times", and had agreed to work for free. One of the early contributors to the newspaper was John Robert Godley. Ingram Shrimpton came out from England in 1854 and took over as editor. FitzGerald had effectively relinquished the editorship upon his election as Superintendent of the Canterbury Province in July 1853. The production moved to more spacious premises in Lyttelton's Oxford Street in 1854.
Lyttelton Times | History
Frank Thomas Robertson Giles (31 July 1919 – 30 October 2019) was an English journalist, historian and diplomat, who was editor of the British "Sunday Times" newspaper from 1981 to 1983, having served as its foreign editor (1961–1977) and then deputy editor (1967–1981) under his predecessor Harold Evans. He stood down in the wake of the Hitler Diaries scandal.
Frank Giles | Introduction
Swift had control of the journal for 33 issues between November 1710 and June 1711, but once he became dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, he gave up regular journalistic work. In 1702 Edward Lloyd, the virtual founder of the famous "Lloyd's" of commerce, started a thrice a week newspaper, "Lloyd's News", which had but a brief existence in its initial form, but was the precursor of the modern "Lloyd's List". The 76th issue of the original paper contained a paragraph mentioning the House of Lords, for which the publisher was told he would have to pay a fine.
History of British newspapers | 18th century
Healey, in 1841. There were reasons concerning family and money troubles. Another motivation, however, for his exit was an embroilment in libel matters, after he defended John Elliotson in his paper. He then took a post as surgeon to a poor law union in Norfolk. The "Medical Times" was incorporated in January 1852 with the "Medical Gazette", and continued as the "Medical Times and Gazette" until 1885. After a year Hunt returned to London, continuing to practise medicine, and working briefly for the Anti-Corn Law League. He also resumed his connection with the press. He was successively sub-editor of the "Illustrated London News", and editor of the "Pictorial Times".
Frederick Knight Hunt | Life
The charity began when six people set up a voluntary society, The United Kingdom Beneficent Association (UKBA), to aid the newly poor in 1863. Their goal was to prevent destitution by providing those in poverty with a small, regular income for life. Applicants were required to be over 40, living on less than £25 a year and from the 'upper and middle classes' (who were thought to have been 'sadly overlooked in the desire... to better the condition of the lower orders'). These original founders were Sir William Thomas Charley and his brother-in-law, Captain William Mackenzie, Captain James Story, Reverend William Cardall, Reverend Walter Howse, and Reverend William Windle.
Independent Age | History
He was a frequent contributor to "Chambers's Journal," "The Leader", "The Spectator", the "London Review", the "Saturday Review", and the "Pictorial World". His first successful works were "Houses with the Fronts off", brought out in 1854, and "Twelve inside and one out. Edited from the Papers of Mr. Limbertongue", which appeared in the following year. In January 1858 he founded the Friday Knights, a social society, the name of which was changed to the Urban Club on 15 Nov. 1858. One of his most useful publications was "Familiar Words, a Collection of Quotations", a work of much labour, which he produced in 1864.
James Hain Friswell | Introduction
In 1981, "The Times" and "The Sunday Times" were bought from Thomson by Rupert Murdoch's News International. The acquisition followed three weeks of intensive bargaining with the unions by company negotiators John Collier and Bill O'Neill. Murdoch gave legal undertakings to maintain separate journalism resources for the two titles. The Royal Arms was reintroduced to the masthead at about this time, but whereas previously it had been that of the reigning monarch, it would now be that of the House of Hanover, who were on the throne when the newspaper was founded. After 14 years as editor, William Rees-Mogg resigned upon completion of the change of ownership.
The Times | From 1981
"The Oxford Times" was founded in 1862 as a weekly broadsheet. In 1922, T.E. Lawrence (known as Lawrence of Arabia) commissioned "The Oxford Times" to typeset and print an advance private edition of "Seven Pillars of Wisdom". This is known as the "1922 Edition" or the "Oxford Text" of "Seven Pillars". "The Oxford Times" has won a number of national awards including Regional Weekly Newspaper of the Year in 2004, 2005, and 2007.
The Oxford Times | History
John Walter I was born in London in 1738. Making, and subsequently losing, a fortune as a coal merchant and underwriter, in 1785, Walter established "The Daily Universal Register", "to record the principal occurrences of the times". Renamed "The Times" in 1788, within twenty years "The Thunderer" had become the newspaper of record for the British Empire. By a combination of exceptionally fast reporting; "The Times"' report of Nelson's victory at the Battle of Trafalgar was published several days before the British government received the official communique from the Admiralty; and technological innovation, "The Times" had the first steam-powered printing press; Walter's son, John Walter II, made the newspaper profitable.
Bearwood House, Sindlesham | History
The Sunday School Society was a British association of Sunday schools, founded by William Fox (1736–1826) on 7 September 1785.
Sunday School Society | Introduction
Frederick York St Leger was the Irish born founder of the Cape Times newspaper in South Africa, and Anglican priest.
Frederick York St Leger | Introduction
For some years he was on "The Times" staff, and when the Crimean War broke out in 1853 he was offered the post of its special correspondent. But having lately married, he persuaded his colleague and countryman, William Howard Russell, to go in his stead. During the war, he was one of the founders of the "Patriotic Fund Journal" (1854–55), a weekly miscellany of general literature, to which he contributed prose and verse under the pseudonym of 'Melopoyn,' the profits being devoted to the Patriotic Fund. In 1856 he left "The Times" to become art and dramatic critic to the "Morning Post." which he continued until 1895.
Charles J. Dunphie | Life
In return, Murdoch provided legally binding guarantees to preserve the titles' editorial independence. Evans was appointed editor of "The Times" in February 1981 and was replaced at "The Sunday Times" by Frank Giles. In 1983, the newspaper bought the serialisation rights to publish the faked "Hitler Diaries", thinking them to be genuine after they were authenticated by the own newspaper's own independent director, Hugh Trevor-Roper, the historian and author of "The Last Days of Hitler". Under Andrew Neil, editor from 1983 until 1994, "The Sunday Times" took a strongly Thatcherite slant that contrasted with the traditional paternalistic conservatism expounded by Peregrine Worsthorne at the rival "Sunday Telegraph".
The Sunday Times | The Murdoch years (1981–present)
Once the rights were returned he began publishing the "London Gazette" which remains the oldest surviving English newspaper. With a short hiatus over the Exclusion crisis, when there were attempts to suppress all publications, he retained exclusive rights until the Glorious Revolution of 1688. At the change of regime he was considered too close to the previous incumbents and retired, dying in 1692.
Henry Muddiman | Introduction
Hallam was a fellow of the Royal Society, and a trustee of the British Museum. In 1830 he received the gold medal for history founded by George IV.
Henry Hallam | Introduction
Source: David Butler and Anne Sloman, British Political Facts, 1900-1979, p.445
Sunday Graphic | Editors
In May 1916 he acquired the "Sunday Times" newspaper, which became the major advertising medium for his theatres. With his purchase of the "Sydney Sunday Times", McIntosh acquired the sporting weeklies "The Arrow" and "The Referee". In 1915 he started advertising his own theatrical weekly The "Green Room Magazine", nicknamed "The Tivoli Bible", employing Zora Cross as drama critic. He sold his Sunday Times interests in 1929.
Hugh D. McIntosh | Publishing
P. Ryan, Langdon Everard and George Slocombe. The editor of the Women's Page was Margaret Travers-Symons, and Katharine Susannah Prichard wrote for it. Vance Palmer's poems were used on the front page. G. K. Chesterton was a frequent contributor. His brother Cecil and Hilaire Belloc were occasional contributors. After Seed was removed as editor, Rowland Kenney, the brother of Annie Kenney; C. Sheridan Jones; and finally Charles Lapworth held the position. In June 1913, the "Daily Herald" company was forced into liquidation. Lansbury and Lapworth formed a new company, the Limit Printing and Publishing Company. (When the Liberal leader Lloyd George was asked a question about the "Herald" he declared "That paper is the limit.")
Daily Herald (United Kingdom) | Syndicalist period, 1912–1913
The newspaper became known as a launchpad for the successful careers of the small team put together by editor Jeff Randall in the winter of 1997/8. The newspaper made various moves, both in editorial style and physical location. The newspaper was originally based in Cavendish Square in Central London, while the re-launched newspaper was based in the offices of ITN News in Gray's Inn Road, moving on to South Quay in London Docklands in 2000 and then finally back to the City at Waterhouse Square.
Sunday Business | History
He was born in Westminster, the second son of Samuel Hayhurst Lucas, a London corn-merchant, who was a member of the Society of Friends. He was educated at a Quaker school in Darlington, and then at University College, London. He studied law at Middle Temple, and was called to the bar in 1835. Lucas converted to Catholicism in 1839. In 1840, Lucas founded The Tablet, published in London, a progressive international Catholic weekly newspaper, just 11 years before the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in England and Wales. It is the second oldest surviving weekly journal in Britain after The Spectator (which was founded in 1828).
Frederick Lucas | Biography
The newspaper was founded as a Tory newspaper by a printer called William Hodgetts in 1825 to provide an alternative to "The Times", whose editorial line was controversial locally. Historical copies of the "Birmingham Journal", dating back to its first issue in 1825, are available to search and view in digitised form at The British Newspaper Archive.
Birmingham Journal (nineteenth century) | History
John Walter (1 January 1738 – 17 November 1812) was an English newspaper publisher and founder of "The Times" newspaper, which he launched on 1 January 1785 as "The Daily Universal Register". He was born in London and was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, then located in London.
John Walter (publisher) | Introduction
In 1920 Douglas founded a right-wing, Catholic, and "deeply anti-Jewish" weekly magazine called "Plain English", on which he collaborated with Harold Sherwood Spencer, and to begin with Thomas William Hodgson Crosland. It regarded itself as the successor to "The Academy", to which Douglas had been a contributing editor. "Plain English" ran until the end of 1922. Douglas later admitted that its policy was "strongly anti-Semitic". From August 1920 (issue No 8) "Plain English" began publishing a long running series of articles called "The Jewish Peril" by Major-General Count Cherep-Spiridovitch the title of which was taken from the fore-title of George Shanks' version of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion".
Lord Alfred Douglas | "Plain English"
The present editor, Sarah Baxter, took over in 2009.
The Sunday Times Magazine | History
This was before the days when literary magazines could get financial backing from the Arts Council...However, Mrs Hutchinson and he were confident that she would be able to find a backer for the venture...Our benefactor was Michael Berry [1911-2001], now Lord Hartwell, the owner of the "Daily Telegraph". He undertook to guarantee the first four volumes of "X", and proved an ideal backer—he never interfered. Indeed, I never even met him...Apart from Swift and myself there was no other staff, for we had determined to cut out all unnecessary expenses...The first number of "X" was carefully planned, and well received.
X (magazine) | History
"The Founder" is the independent student newspaper. Founded in 2006, 4,000 free copies are printed and distributed fortnightly across campus and locally. It gets no financial support from the college or SURHUL and advertising revenue acquired by the students on the editorial board pays for printing. At the 2007 Guardian Student Media Awards, Christian Anthony was shortlisted for the Student critic of the year Award. At the inaugural 2011 London Student Journalism Awards Kate Brook, the newspaper's Features Editor, was recognised with the Best Feature Writer award. At the 2016 Student Publication Association Awards, Features Editor Zak Derler received Special Mention in the Best Feature category for his story on the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean.
Royal Holloway, University of London | "The Founder"
The "Selby Times" was first published in 1860 by Mr Bellerby a printer and publisher. The paper was commended for its 150th anniversary by an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons in 2010.
Selby Times | History
The Sunday Times Newspaper Company also published "The Referee" from 1887, and later the "Arrow".
The Sunday Times (Sydney) | History
George Henry Lewes and Thornton Leigh Hunt founded "The Leader" in 1850. They had financial backing from Edmund Larken, who was an unconventional clergyman looking for a vehicle for "Christian liberal" views. Others involved were George Dawson and Richard Congreve. After a year Larken and Holyoake took over the rest of the shares.
The Leader (English newspaper) | Founders
'Philosopher Warburton,' as he was known, was one of the leading supporters of Henry Brougham in founding London University, and was a member of its first council in 1827.
Henry Warburton | Early life
The Globe was a British newspaper that ran from 1803 to 1921. It was founded by Christopher Blackett, the coal mining entrepreneur from Wylam, Northumberland, who had commissioned the first commercially useful adhesion steam locomotives in the world. It merged with the "Pall Mall Gazette" in 1921. Under the ownership of Robert Torrens during the 1820s it supported radical politics, and was regarded as closely associated with Jeremy Bentham. By the 1840s it was more mainstream and received briefings from within the Whig administration. In 1871 it was owned by a Tory group headed by George Cubitt, who brought in George Armstrong as editor.
The Globe (London newspaper) | Introduction
His attempts to negotiate an increase on his commission were unsuccessful. By the time of the house's completion, Walter's stupendous income from "The Times", £50,000 a year in 1865, was beginning to falter. "The Times"' circulation, already declining, came under more sustained assault in the decades ahead, with the rise of the middle-market newspapers, in particular the "Daily Mail". In 1908, John Walter's grandson, John Walter V, saw control of the paper pass to the Mail's founder, Lord Northcliffe.
Bearwood House, Sindlesham | History
Robert was a pioneer of the Sunday school movement, although he did not start the first Sunday School. Some already existed such as that founded by Hannah Ball in High Wycombe which is the first documented known case. He inherited a publishing business from his father, becoming proprietor of the "Gloucester Journal" in 1757. He then moved the business into Robert Raikes' House in 1758. The movement started with a school for boys in the slums. Raikes had become interested in prison reform, specifically with the conditions in Gloucester gaol and saw that vice would be better prevented than cured.
Robert Raikes | Sunday schools
The British Institution was founded in June 1805 by a group of private subscribers who met in the Thatched House Tavern in London. A committee was formed, and in September of that year it purchased the lease of the former Boydell Shakespeare Gallery building at 52 Pall Mall, with 62 years remaining, for a premium of £4,500 and an annual ground rent of £125. The British Institution opened at the Pall Mall site on 18 January 1806. The founding "Hereditory Governors" included Sir George Beaumont, 7th Baronet and Charles Long, 1st Baron Farnborough, both of whom had employed the services of the leading dealer and picture-cleaner William Seguier, and were probably responsible for his appointment as "Superintendent".
British Institution | Founding
In 1881 he accepted Cardinal Manning's invitation to edit the Catholic "Weekly Register", and continued to do so until 1899. Meynell later founded and edited (1883–94) the magazine "Merry England", in which he discovered and sponsored the poet Francis Thompson.
Wilfrid Meynell | Introduction
The "Sunday Sport" was founded in 1986, the first issue for sale was dated 14 September 1986. Its original publisher was David Sullivan. Advertising in the "Sunday Sport" was once the responsibility of Sullivan's protegee Karren Brady (now the life peer Baroness Brady), who later became managing director of Birmingham City Football Club and vice chairman of West Ham United. Sullivan sold the paper to Sport Newspapers, but had to give them a £1.68m bailout in 2009. The last editor was Nick Appleyard, appointed in September 2007. His predecessors included Dominic Mohan, Michael Gabbert and Paul Carter. Its sister daily title, "Daily Sport", began publication in 1991, but ceased publication and entered administration on 1 April 2011.
Sunday Sport | History
The daily sponsors an annual book award and publishes a "Person of the Year" feature. The paper was founded in 1888 as the London Financial Guide before rebranding a year later as the "Financial Times". It was first circulated around metropolitan London by James Sheridan, who, along with his brother and Horatio Bottomley, sought to report on city business opposite the "Financial News". The succeeding half-century competition between the two papers would eventually culminate in a 1945 merger, led by Brendan Bracken, which established it as one of the largest business newspapers in the world. Globalisation from the late-19th to mid-20th century facilitated editorial expansion for the "FT", with the paper adding opinion columns, special reports, political cartoons, reader letters, book reviews, technology articles, and global politics features.
Financial Times | Introduction
The Guardian was a weekly Anglican newspaper published from January 1846 to November 1951. It was founded by Richard William Church, Thomas Henry Haddan, and other supporters of the Tractarian movement and was for many years the leading newspaper of the Church of England. Montague Bernard, another of the paper's founders, served as its initial editor, with Martin Sharp taking over responsibility for the paper in 1859. He stood down as editor in 1883 and was replaced by Daniel Conner Lathbury. His outspoken views on political and ecclesiastical matters, and especially his opposition to the Boer War, led to his dismissal in 1899.
The Guardian (Anglican newspaper) | Introduction
A column Noll started in 1912, called "Father Smith Instructs Jackson", was later collected into a popular book, which sold millions of copies. On March 30, 1913, the paper offered a $10,000 reward for anyone who could prove the anti-Catholic charges laid against the Church. No one ever claimed the reward.
Our Sunday Visitor | History
The first "Times" newspaper, "Ceylon Times" was established in 1846. The Times of Ceylon Ltd, which existed for 131 years, was taken over by the Sri Lankan government in 1977. Ranjith Wijewardena, the son of D. R. Wijewardena, and the chairman of Wijeya Newspapers Ltd, purchased the company which was under liquidation, in 1986. However, the newspaper "The Sunday Times" came into being in 1991.
The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka) | History
In 1233 this was readjusted to Saturday. By 1296 it belonged to Gilbert de Clare, who in 1312 claimed that his ancestors had held it 'from time out of mind'.
Brenchley | History
"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. As a newsagent, Ingram was struck by the reliable increase in newspaper sales when they featured pictures and shocking stories. Ingram began to plan a weekly newspaper that would contain pictures in every edition. Ingram rented an office, recruited artists and reporters, and employed as his editor Frederick William Naylor Bayley (1808–1853), formerly editor of the "National Omnibus". The first issue of "The Illustrated London News" appeared on Saturday, 14 May 1842, timed to report on the young Queen Victoria's first masquerade ball.
The Illustrated London News | 1842–1860: Herbert Ingram
The magazine was started in 1968 by Roy Faiers of Lincolnshire, who held it as a private company (This England International Ltd.). Faiers remained editor-in-chief until 2009, when he sold the company to DC Thomson, owners of the "Sunday Post", "Beano", "Dandy", "The People's Friend", "My Weekly" and other publications. Faiers was succeeded as editor by his former deputy editor, Stephen Garnett, who in turn was succeeded by current editor, Angela Linforth. The name "This England" comes from the declamations of John of Gaunt in Act II, Scene I of Shakespeare's "King Richard II": "This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle...
This England (magazine) | History
In May 2010 David Kemeys was appointed editor, reporting directly to Murphy. Jonathan Milne was editor of the Sunday Star Times from 2014 to June 2019.
Sunday Star-Times | History
In 1888 Alfred had founded a paper called "Answers", which was modelled after another popular paper called "Tit-Bits". Harold gave up his clerk's job to handle the business side of the papers, while Alfred effectively controlled the papers with great success. Alfred later became ennobled as Lord Northcliffe, and Harold as Lord Rothermere. The brothers started several papers, of which the "Daily Mail" became the most influential.
The Evening News (London newspaper) | Early history
Norman Easedale Crump FRSS (10 January 1896 – 22 January 1964), was a British financial and economic authority and Liberal Party politician. He was City Editor of "The Sunday Times" for 20 years.
Norman Crump | Introduction
In 1817, Thomas Barnes became general editor of "The Times"; he was a political radical, a sharp critic of parliamentary hypocrisy and a champion of freedom of the press. Under Barnes and his successor in 1841, John Thadeus Delane, the influence of "The Times" rose to great heights, especially in politics and in the financial district (the City of London). It spoke of reform. "The Times" originated the practice of sending war correspondents to cover particular conflicts. W. H. Russell wrote immensely influential dispatches on the Crimean War of 1853–1856; for the first time, the public could read about the reality of warfare.
Victorian era | Journalism
However, it forced the conversion of all UK national newspapers to electronic production and colour printing. The newspaper's motto, hung in the newsroom, was "propa truth, not propaganda". Launched by regional newspaper entrepreneur Eddy Shah, it was bought by Tiny Rowland's conglomerate Lonrho within four months. Shah subsequently launched the short-lived, unsuccessful national tabloid "The Post" in 1988. Alastair Campbell was political editor and his girlfriend, Fiona Millar, was news editor. Alongside the daily newspaper, a Sunday edition was launched. "Sunday Today" suffered from having three editors in less than a year, and was closed early in 1987 as a cost-saving measure.
Today (UK newspaper) | History
George Jones (August 16, 1811 – August 11, 1891) was an American journalist who, with Henry Jarvis Raymond, co-founded the "New-York Daily Times", now the "New York Times"
George Jones (publisher) | Introduction
The Sunday Times was a newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia from 1885 to 1930.
The Sunday Times (Sydney) | Introduction
A native of Yarmouth in England, he served in Hankow and Tientsin.
London Missionary Society | Early days
Arguments between the two manifested as early as 1915, but would continue well into 1930’s when the Freedom group was becoming moribund and Keell reduced the scope of the paper and decided to move its publication away outside London to Whiteway Colony near Stroud in Gloucestershire.
George Cores | Introduction
In 1852, John Dunmore Lang, the founder of Presbyterianism in Australia published a history of New South Wales entitled ""An Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales"". Flanagan thought it was a poor history which was ridden with prejudice, so he spent the next eight years writing his own book.
Roderick Flanagan | From journalist to historian
He proceeded MA 1840, and BCL 1844 where he earnt the Vinerian Scholarship. He was called to the bar of the Inner Temple 11 June 1841, and practised as an equity draftsman and conveyancer. He was a sound lawyer, and had a steady practice at the bar. At a meeting in his chambers, 6 New Square, Lincoln's Inn, in 1846, the "Guardian" newspaper was projected, a response to the conversion of John Henry Newman to Catholicism. The group of founders was led by Frederic Rogers, James Mozley, Richard William Church, Mountague Bernard, and the Haddan brothers. Thomas Haddan for a short time edited the paper, which was published for over a century.
Thomas Henry Haddan | Life
"Bell's Life" was founded by Robert Bell, a London printer-publisher. Bell sold it to William Innell Clement, owner of "The Observer", in 1824 or 1825, and the paper swallowed up a competitor, "Pierce Egan's Life in London and Sporting Guide". From 1824 to 1852 it was edited by Vincent George Dowling, "during which time "Bell's Life" became Britain's leading sporting newspaper, without which no gentleman's Sunday was quite complete". Dowling's son, Frank Lewis Dowling, effectively edited the paper during the last year of his father's life, and succeeded him as editor from 1852 to 1867. By the 1860s "Bell's Life" was facing competition from "The Field", "The Sportsman", "Sporting Life", and "The Sporting Times".
Bell's Life in London | History
Henry Richard Vizetelly (30 July 18201 January 1894) was an English publisher and writer. He started the publications "Pictorial Times" and "Illustrated Times", wrote several books while working in Paris and Berlin as correspondent for the "Illustrated London News", and in 1886 founded a publishing house in London, Vizetelly & Company.
Henry Vizetelly | Introduction
"The Northern Echo" was able to demonstrate that there had been a miscarriage of justice. In 1966, Harold Evans moved to London to become assistant to the editor of "The Sunday Times". The owners of the newspaper, the Thomson Organisation, acquired "The Times" not long afterwards, and Evans' editor, Denis Hamilton was promoted to editor-in-chief of the Times group. He recommended Evans to the board as the next editor of "The Sunday Times".
Harold Evans | Early career
Interested in early English literature, Southern in 1820 founded the "Retrospective Review", which he edited on his own till 1826, by which time 14 volumes had been published. Between 1826 and 1828 two more were issued by him with Nicholas Harris Nicolas. The "Review" provided criticisms on "scarce old books", mainly of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Two more volumes of another series of the title were published in 1853–4. When Jeremy Bentham founded the "Westminster Review" in 1824, Southern was for a time co-editor with John Bowring; and in 1825 he became proprietor and editor of the second series of the later "London Magazine".
Henry Southern (journalist) | Journalist