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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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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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
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
It was founded around the year 1700 by a group of hunters working for the then Asantehene. 'Abofour,' means 'hunters'.
Abofour | 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
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 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 "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 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 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
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
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
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
Thomas Stock (1750–1803) established the first Sunday school in the United Kingdom.
Thomas Stock | Introduction
"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 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
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 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
It was inaugurated in 1696.
Sankt Annæ Gade | Early history
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
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
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
"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 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
"The Tablet", by comparison, cost 6d. By 1910, "The Universe" was giving news from all over the country, not just from London, and had started to produce photographs, mainly portraits of people mentioned in stories. It had by then also changed its address to 1 Racquet Court, Fleet Street, London EC.
The Universe (Catholic newspaper) | Founding and early years
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
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 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)
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
They were essentially the same group who were to succeed in persuading the government to found the National Gallery in 1824, and whose gifts to it provided most of the early collection. There was a total group of 125 Governors, Directors and Subscribers, paying sums between 100 guineas (56 of them, 35 at 50g., 11 at 10g.) down to one guinea annually. In 1805 the initial subscribers consisted of "One duke, five marquesses, fourteen earls, two viscounts, nine lords, two bishops, four ladies, seven baronets, twenty-two members of parliament, five clergymen and above fifty private gentlemen, bankers and merchants". The Institution had been discussed with the Royal Academy before it was established, and relations were friendly, at least initially, though later there were to be tensions.
British Institution | Founding
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 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 Age" was founded by three Melbourne businessmen, brothers John and Henry Cooke, who had arrived from New Zealand in the 1840s, and Walter Powell. The first edition appeared on 17 October 1854.
The Age | History
The first issue of "Leeds Times" was on Thursday 7 March 1833, the latest issue was 30 March 1901.
Leeds Times | History
"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
The Sunday Times was a newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia from 1885 to 1930.
The Sunday Times (Sydney) | Introduction
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
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 Tablet" was launched in 1840 by a Quaker convert to Catholicism, Frederick Lucas, 10 years before the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in England and Wales. It is the second-oldest surviving weekly journal in Britain. For the first 28 years of its life, "The Tablet" was owned by lay Catholics. Following the death of Lucas in 1855, it was purchased by John Edward Wallis, a Catholic barrister of the Inner Temple. Wallis continued as owner and editor until resigning and putting the newspaper up for sale in 1868. In 1868, the Rev. Herbert Vaughan (who was later made a cardinal), who had founded the only British Catholic missionary society, the Mill Hill Missionaries, purchased the journal just before the First Vatican Council, which defined papal infallibility.
The Tablet | History
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
The paper was published by the London Sunday School Union and was a continuation of an earlier paper "Kind Words for Boys and Girls". The first issue went on sale on 3 January 1880. The paper began as a weekly but became a monthly and finally an annual publication.
Young England (magazine) | Publishing history
The first appearance of a newspaper using the name "The Irish Times" occurred in 1823, but this closed in 1825. The title was revived—initially as a thrice-weekly publication but soon becoming a daily—by a 22-year-old army officer, Lawrence E. Knox (later known as Major Lawrence Knox), with the first edition being published on 29 March 1859. It was founded as a moderate Protestant newspaper, reflecting the politics of Knox, who envisaged it as a "new conservative daily newspaper". Its headquarters were at 4 Lower Abbey Street in Dublin. Its main competitor in its early days was the Dublin "Daily Express".
The Irish Times | Origins
The oldest existing part of the church dates to the 13th century.
Caerwent | Early Christian times
The Sunday School was founded in 1784, the articles of association being adopted on 11 November 1784. The aim was that the town be divided into six, and an establishment provided for each division. Two subscribers should visit each school and report back to the committee. Scholars should attend from 9 to 12 in the morning, and from 1 to 6 in the afternoon, of which part would be attending a church service of their persuasion. Teachers were to be paid 1s 6d a day. They started with eleven schools, and twenty three teachers taught 700-800 children. One of the schools abandoned the practice of paying teachers and encouraged a large number of unpaid volunteers to do the job.
Stockport Sunday School | Foundation
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
The movement to Keep Sunday Special seemed to have lost at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Social history of the United Kingdom (1979–present) | Cultural movements
18. It was founded in 1889 by Fritz Paustian (1862-1935).
Rolighedsvej | History
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 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
"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"
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 "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 newspaper was founded in October 2011 by Richard Trinder, who was 'fed up' with the regional and local printed newspapers on offer in Yorkshire. In April 2012, the newspaper launched its first ever live blog, covering the 18th Bradford International Film Festival, with resulting coverage of other festivals around the county, including the Great Yorkshire Show. The newspaper has also secured interviews with several notable names, including Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, Bob Geldof, Alan Davies and Claire Cashmore.
The Yorkshire Times | History
Founded by Brendan Bracken, Minister of Information after the Second World War, chairman of the "Financial Times" and lieutenant to Sir Winston Churchill, the magazine has been independently owned since 1981. The founding co-editors were Peter Quennell (1951–79) and Alan Hodge (1951–79); subsequent editors were Michael Crowder (1979–81); Michael Trend (1981–82); Juliet Gardiner (1981–85); Gordon Marsden (1985–97) and Peter Furtado (1997–2008). The current editor is Paul Lay. The website contains all the magazine's published content since 1951. A digital edition was launched in 2012. "History Review" was a tri-annual sister publication of "History Today" magazine publishing material for sixth form level history students.
History Today | History
Between 14 June 1987 up to 2006 issues are online at British Newspaper Archive.
Sunday World | Digital archive
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
It was generally assumed that the school was founded in 1575 as this was the date which appeared on the school badge. However, this date is uncertain, as the early school records were completely destroyed in 1858 during the catastrophic fire which gutted Wynnstay, where the records were being kept at the time. Today a date of 1618 is thought to be more accurate. Records show that Thomas Ednyfed (or Nevitt), a Welshman who had made his fortune as a draper in London, England became one of the first benefactors of the school. The school developed as a boys' boarding school.
Ruabon Grammar School | Founding
Freedom from most taxes in the 1830s encouraged the launching of such titles. The "Daily Telegraph, which" appeared on 29 June 1855 and soon sold for 1 d. Sixteen new major provincials papers were founded, and older titles enlarge their scope. "The Manchester Guardian," started out as a weekly in 1821, became a daily of 1855, as did the "Liverpool Post" and the "Scotsman." The newspapers were stodgy affairs bringing great prestige and political influence to the closed network of families that owned them. "The Times", edited by John Thadeus Delane stood preeminent.
History of journalism in the United Kingdom | Taxes abolished
The Sunday Times Newspaper Company also published "The Referee" from 1887, and later the "Arrow".
The Sunday Times (Sydney) | History
Times Newspapers Limited publishes the compact daily newspaper "The Times" and the broadsheet "The Sunday Times". Times Newspapers was formed in 1967 when the Thomson Corporation purchased "The Times" from the Astor family and merged it with "The Sunday Times", which it had owned since 1959. The company was purchased by Rupert Murdoch's News International in February 1981. The acquisition followed an intense 21 days of negotiations with the print unions, conducted by John Collier and Bill O'Neill. "The Times Literary Supplement", "Times Educational Supplement" and "Times Higher Education Supplement" were also part of the group; the latter two publications have since been sold.
News UK | Times Newspapers Ltd
This was successful and it grew faster than the rest. The consequent need for extra books, added to an increase of rent and other expenses, occasioned a demand beyond its proportion of the public subscription. These circumstances led to this school becoming a separate institution independent of the rest, though agreeing with them in the general object, the mode of instruction, the books in use, and the subjects admitted. In the year 1794, a separate committee published a report, entitling the institution, by way of distinction, the Methodists’ Sunday School, most of its promoters and active supporters being of that denomination.
Stockport Sunday School | Foundation
The newspaper was first printed on 20 July 1741. It was edited by Andrew Stalker, and was printed by Robert Urie and Co. for the editor and Alexander Carlisle, who were booksellers.
Glasgow Journal | Founding
The immediate spur to the organisation's formation was the National Hunger March of 1932. The first Secretary was Ronald Kidd, and first President E. M. Forster; Vice-Presidents were the politician and author A. P. Herbert and the journalist Kingsley Martin of the "New Statesman". H. G. Wells, Vera Brittain, Clement Attlee, Rebecca West, Edith Summerskill and Harold Laski were also founder members. The National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL) was founded in 1934. The inaugural meeting took place in the church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London on 22 February. A letter published in "The Times" and "The Guardian" newspapers announced the formations of the group, citing "the general and alarming tendency to encroachment on the liberty of the citizen" as the reason for its establishment.
Liberty (advocacy group) | Foundation and early years
The "FT" was launched as the "London Financial Guide" on 10 January 1888, renaming itself the "Financial Times" on 13 February the same year. Describing itself as the friend of "The Honest Financier, the Bona Fide Investor, the Respectable Broker, the Genuine Director, and the Legitimate Speculator", it was a four-page journal. The readership was the financial community of the City of London, its only rival being the more daring and slightly older (founded in 1884) "Financial News". On 2 January 1893 the "FT" began printing on light pink paper to distinguish it from the similarly named "Financial News": at the time it was also cheaper to print on unbleached paper (several other more general newspapers, such as "The Sporting Times", had the same policy), but nowadays it is more expensive as the paper has to be dyed specially.
Financial Times | History
It was founded by Scottish businessman Peter Stewart Macliver and Newcastle journalist Walter Reid and first published on 1 June 1858. Macliver went on to found the "Bristol Observer".
Western Daily Press | Founding
The "True Briton" would continue for eleven years before collapsing in 1804.
The Sun (1792–1806) | Introduction
"The Business" was founded by Tom Rubython as the "Sunday Business" newspaper in 1996, and provided a Sunday alternative to the "Financial Times". However, the paper experienced financial difficulties under Rubython. The Barclay brothers acquired the title, repackaged it under the guidance of Andrew Neil, and converted to a magazine in the autumn of 2006. On 13 February 2008 it was announced that "The Business" magazine would be closing, to be replaced by "The Spectator Business".
The Business (magazine) | History
The first recorded Sunday school opened in 1751 in St Mary's Church, Nottingham. Hannah Ball made another early start, founding a school in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire,in 1769. However, the pioneer of Sunday schools is commonly said to be Robert Raikes, editor of the "Gloucester Journal", who in 1781, after prompting from William King (who was running a Sunday School in Dursley), recognised the need of children living in the Gloucester slums; the need also to prevent them from taking up crime. He opened a school in the home of a Mrs Meredith, operating it on a Sunday - the only day that the boys and girls working in the factories could attend.
Sunday school | United Kingdom
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
Daily Information was first founded by John Rose in 1964. The first printed sheet was a single side of A4, simply showing the theatre and cinema listings for the week ahead, as well as offering information on placing announcements in further editions, news on "digs" and items "for sale". On Daily Info's conception, Rose said: "The need for an easy, immediate form of communication was also apparent in the Oxford of the early sixties. I tried to put an ad in the "Oxford Mail". You couldn’t put it in by phone, so I went down to their office in New Inn Hall St on Thursday afternoon.
Daily Information | History
The "Goole Times" was first founded in 1853 as a monthly newspaper. By 1869 it had become a weekly paper and was called the "Goole and Marshland Weekly Times". It then took on a name change 10 years later and was called "The Goole Weekly Times".
Goole Times | 19th century
The formal founding was on 21 November 1832 after the women began their work for the founding the previous 26 April 1831.
Bartolomea Capitanio | Life
The history of British newspapers dates to 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 in publications, which in turn led to an increase in regulation throughout the 18th century. "The Times" began publication in 1785 and became the leading newspaper of the early 19th century, before the lifting of taxes on newspapers and technological innovations led to a boom in newspaper publishing in the late 19th century. Mass education and increasing affluence led to new papers such as the "Daily Mail" emerging at the end of the 19th century, aimed at lower middle-class readers.
History of British newspapers | Introduction
"The Times" has had the following eight owners since its foundation in 1785:
The Times | Ownership
The present editor, Sarah Baxter, took over in 2009.
The Sunday Times Magazine | History
The Sunday People is a British tabloid Sunday newspaper. It was founded as The People on 16 October 1881. The "People" was bought by the Mirror group in 1961, along with the "Daily Herald". It is now published by Reach plc, and shares a website with the Mirror papers. In July 2011, when it benefited from the closure of the "News of the World", it had an average Sunday circulation of 806,544. By December 2016 the circulation had shrunk to 239,364 and by August 2020 to 125,216. Despite its tagline claim to be a "truly independent" newspaper, the "People" endorsed the Labour Party at the 2015 general election on the recommendation of polling data from its readers.
The Sunday People | Introduction
In 1798 with numbers at 341 a permanent building was built. It is likely this was the second Sunday school started in the country and one of the first to have a permanent building. The funds for this building were not easily forthcoming but the trustees went ahead anyway thus bestowing its name.
Robert Hawker | Sunday school
First published in Barnard Castle in 1847. It was the brainchild of Liberal philanthropist and barrister, George Brown, who sought to challenge the Tory monopoly of the press in the region. The following year it relocated to Darlington, where it has continued to be published from to the present day. Founder George Brown then sold it to property developers, Robert and William Thompson. In 1864, the Thompsons went into liquidation and it was then sold to Henry King Spark. Spark purchased the paper to raise his own political profile in and around the Darlington area. In 1867, the D&S Times was instrumental in both Darlington's Incorporation and its creation into a Parliamentary borough.
Darlington &amp; Stockton Times | History
The paper was founded in 1860, with as the first Editor and SVP member, Denis Lane, the printer. The first copies of "The Universe" were published on Saturday, December 8, 1860 – at a cover price of one penny – from 43 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC. The front page announced that “a cheap Catholic newspaper is required – if only to stay the circulation of anti-Catholic weekly newspapers among Catholic families resident in London”. By selling the paper for just one penny a copy, "The Universe" said it hoped to be a weekly paper “within the reach of all classes”.
The Universe (Catholic newspaper) | Founding and early years
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 movement to Keep Sunday Special seemed to have lost at the beginning of the 21st century.
English society | 1980s
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
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
Its first issue was published on September 6, 1896, and contained the first photographs ever printed in the newspaper. In the early decades, it was a section of the broadsheet paper and not an insert as it is today. The creation of a "serious" Sunday magazine was part of a massive overhaul of the newspaper instigated that year by its new owner, Adolph Ochs, who also banned fiction, comic strips and gossip columns from the paper, and is generally credited with saving "The New York Times" from financial ruin. In 1897, the magazine published a 16-page spread of photographs documenting Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, a "costly feat" that resulted in a wildly popular issue and helped boost the magazine to success.
The New York Times Magazine | History
The Prince Regent was Patron from the foundation, and loans from the Royal Collection continued throughout the life of the Institution. In 1822 the hereditary nature of the Governors was eased out, as they were becoming far too numerous, and the bottom end of the Subscribership tightened up.
British Institution | Founding
The "Sunday Star-Times" was first published in March 1994 after the merger of "The Dominion Sunday Times" and "The Sunday Star". The "Dominion Sunday Times" started in 1965 and was renamed to "Sunday Times" (1976–1981), "New Zealand Times" (1981–1986), New Zealand Sunday Times (1986–1987), then reverted to its original (1987–1992), before it was known as the "Sunday Times" (1992–1994). The paper was edited by Cate Brett from 2003 until 2008 when she took up a post at the New Zealand Law Commission. She was replaced by Australian Mitchell Murphy who, in 2010, was promoted to the role of publisher for Fairfax Sundays and in 2012 to executive director of publishing.
Sunday Star-Times | History
Under the 1944 Education Act, tuition fees were abolished and for a short period the school was assisted by the London County Council until it became an aided Grammar School in 1952, with three form entry and 450 pupils in the main school. In 1966 a service of thanksgiving was held on 4 October at the Church of St Botolph's to celebrate the school's centenary. In the same year, the first bricks were laid on the construction of a three-storey site primarily to house the Sixth Form but also including extra science classrooms. The following decade the Whitfield Tabernacle was acquired and converted into a Games Hall and art room.
Central Foundation Boys' School | Modern Era (1945–present)
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 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
The Sunday Times is a British Sunday newspaper. The Sunday Times may also refer to:
The Sunday Times (disambiguation) | Introduction
By the 1930s, over two-thirds of the population read a newspaper every day, with "almost everyone" taking one on Sundays. The "Morning Star" was founded in 1930 as the "Daily Worker", organ of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). is a left-wing British daily tabloid newspaper with a focus on social and trade union issues. A 1938 "Report on the British Press" (from the think tank Political and Economic Planning) expressed concerns that "a dangerous tendency has recently been manifesting itself by which entertainment ceases to be ancillary to news and either supersedes it or absorbs it; many people welcome a newspaper that under the guise of presenting news, enables them to escape from the grimness of actual events and the effort of thought by opening the backdoor of triviality and sex appeal.
History of British newspapers | Developments
The Church of England Newspaper is an independent Anglican weekly newspaper. Based in London, it is published in the United Kingdom on Fridays. The "Church of England Newspaper" was founded in 1828 (as "The Record"), and continued under that title until 31 December 1948, when it merged with "Church Family Newspaper" (officially beginning in 1949), which itself was first issued on 8 February 1894. The newspaper is notable as the earliest church paper, and one of the oldest newspapers still in circulation. It is independent of the Church of England hierarchy. It normally adopts a broadly evangelical stance. The paper was owned by the Conservative politician John Cordle from 1946.
Church of England Newspaper | Introduction
The time was therefore ripe to press for the establishment of a Greek Church.
Greeks in the United Kingdom | 17th century
A Sunday School was added in 1889 and Vestries in 1926.
Angarrack | History
Organised activism for irreligion in the United Kingdom derived its roots from the legacy of British nonconformists. The South Place Religious Society, which would later become associated with the Ethical movement, was founded in 1793 as an organisation of Philadelphians or Universalists. In 1811 “The Necessity of Atheism” was published by a young oxford student, Percy Bysshe Shelley. It was one of the first printed, open avowals of irreligion in England. "The Oracle of Reason", the first avowedly-atheist periodical publication in British history, was published from 1841 to 1843 by Charles Southwell. It suffered from numerous imprisonments of its staff, including Southwell, George Holyoake and Thomas Paterson, for missives deemed "blasphemous" by the authorities (Holyoake was the last person in Britain convicted of blasphemy in a public lecture).
Irreligion in the United Kingdom | 1700–1850
A statue of Robert Raikes, often regarded as being the founder of Sunday schools, executed by the sculptor Thomas Brock, stands in Victoria Embankment Gardens, London, United Kingdom. It was unveiled by the Earl of Shaftesbury on 3 July 1880 and marked the centenary of the opening of the first Sunday school. The critic Edmund Gosse considered the statue to be "as good as anything of the kind we possess in England". In 1958 it was designated a Grade II-listed building. The front of the plinth reads: . An inscription below the figure's right foot reads: In 1929 replicas of the statue were cast for erection the following year in Gloucester and Toronto, for the 150th anniversary the following year of opening of the first Sunday school.
Statue of Robert Raikes, London | Introduction
In 1987 the paper amalgamated with the "Goole and Howden Chronicle" (founded in 1983), initially as the "Goole Times and Chronicle" and then later that year as the "Times and Chronicle". It adopted its present title in 1997. For the latter half of the 20th century, the editor position was filled by Ernest Butler. Extracts and clippings of the "Goole Times" archive from 1915 to 1990 are held at the town's Waterways Museum.
Goole Times | 20th century
The school was founded in 1869 by the Reverend John Hawtrey. He had been a boy at Eton, from the age of eight. In later life he became a master at Eton and was offered his own house of boys. He decided to remove all of the younger boys from the school. With the permission of Eton College, he took the lowest two forms out to a separate school in Slough and housed them in what is now St Bernard's Catholic Grammar School, Slough. This was known as St Michael's School, and was opened on 29 September 1869, (St Michael's day).
Hawtreys | History