The Observer is Born
December 1791 saw the first publication of The Observer, which is now Britain’s oldest Sunday paper and boasts a readership of more than one million and a one-sixth share of the Sunday newspaper market.
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- British Cartoon Archive
- 150,000 cartoons and caricatures, as published across the British press in the last 100 years, and providing an interesting aspect to the study of journalism and newspaper publishing, as well as secondary source material on a range of historical events.
- NewsFilm Online
- 3000 hours of footage from ITN & Reuters news.
- 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers
- The largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media.
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