The British Newspaper, 1851-1900

The British Newspaper, 1851-1900

The Colored News 15 September 1855
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• 1851 : Reuters News Agency opens in London.
• 1853 - Aug : Abolition of advertisement tax.
• 1855 : Yr Herald Cymraeg launched in Caernarfon.
• 1855 - June 29 : Daily Telegraph launched.
• 1855 - July 1 : Repeal of the Stamp Act opens the way for cheap, mass-circulation newspapers and modern newspaper design in terms of spacing and headlines.
• 1855 - Aug 4 : Colored News, first coloured newspaper, launched. Discontinued 29 September.
• 1855 : Clerkenwell News launched; became Daily Chronicle in 1872.
• 1855 - Sept 20 : Daily Telegraph becomes the first 1d London morning newspaper.
• 1857 : Daily Telegraph invents box number system for classified advertisements.
• 1859 - March 24 : Penny Bell's Life & Sporting News launched. Became Sporting Life on 30 April.
• 1859 - March 29 : Irish Times launched.
• 1861 : Paper duty abolished.
• 1861 - May 20 : First daily newspaper published in Wales: Cambrian Daily Leader is launched in Swansea.
• 1865 - Feb 7 : Pall Mall Gazette launched. Merged with Evening Standard in 1923.
• 1868 : Press Association formed.
• 1868 - Dec 8 : Echo launched, first ½d daily. Ceased publication in 1905.
• 1869 - May 1 : Western Mail launched.
• 1869 : Newspapers deposited directly with British Museum by publishers.
• 1869 - Dec 4 : Graphic launched. Ceased publication in 1932.
• 1871 : Central News founded to rival Press Association.
• 1872 : C.P. Scott becomes editor of Manchester Guardian (until 1929).
• 1872 - Feb 7 : South Wales Daily News launched in Cardiff.
• 1880 : W.T. Stead succeeds John Morley on Pall Mall Gazette and introduces 'new journalism', including the interview and gossip column, into Britain.
• 1880 - May 31 : St James Gazette launched. Merged with Evening Standard in 1905.
• 1881 - July 26 : Evening News launched. Merged with Evening Standard in 1980.
• 1881 - Oct 16 : People launched.
• 1881 - Oct 22 : Tit-Bits launched by George Newnes.
• 1888 - Jan 9 : London Financial Guide launched. Became Financial Times on 13 February.
• 1888 - Jan 17 : Star launched. Merged with Evening News in 1960.
• 1888 : David Lloyd George forms a company to produce the Welsh weekly, Udgorn Rhyddid ['Trumpet of Freedom'].
• 1889 - March 30 : Early use of photographs: Cambridge and Oxford boat crews, in Illustrated London News.
• 1890 - Jan 4 : Daily Graphic launched, first daily illustrated paper. Merged with Daily Sketch in 1926.
• 1891 - Nov 4 : First half-tone newspaper picture published in Daily Graphic: that of George Lambert, Liberal parliamentary candidate.
• 1892 - May 21 : Morning founded; became London Morning in 1898, then Morning Herald; purchased by C. Arthur Pearson; in September 1900 merged with Daily Express.
• 1892 - May 23 : Morning Leader founded: later amalgamated with Daily News.
• 1893 - Jan 2 : Financial Times first appears on pink paper.
• 1893 - Jan 31 : Westminster Gazette launched. Merged with Daily News in 1928.
• 1893 - Feb 13 : South Wales Daily Post launched in Swansea.
• 1896 - May 4 : Daily Mail launched by Harmsworth (later Lord Northcliffe).
• 1897 - June 23 : Largest news illustration ever printed by any daily paper in this country, of the Diamond Jubilee procession, published in Daily Mail.
• 1899 : Llais Llafur launched by Ebeneser Rees. Ceased publication in 1915.
• 1900 - April 24 : Daily Express launched by Pearson. First national daily to put news on the front page.

The People 16 October 1881
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