Newspapers Collection (page 5)

Post Office telegraph from OMHS Buckingham Palace
A Post Office telegraph from O.M.H.S. Buckingham Palace, dated 15th August 14. To E. D. Towse, Esq. Swanley Village, Kent

The massing of war columns
When the First World War broke out, newspaper readers thought there would be a constant stream of new information to keep them up-to-date with everything

Sensations of the Times We Live In by George Studdy
What it feels like to read that another ship has been sunk. A metaphorical view of bad news received on the home front during the early months of the First World War

WW1 by Winston Churchill in the Sunday Pictorial
Advertisement for the Sunday Pictorial and its series of articles by Winston Churchill, The Four Chapters of War in 1916. Date: 1916

Edward Hulton
Sir Edward Hulton (1869 - 1925), British newspaper publisher and racehorse owner. Founded the Daily Sketch and bought and developed the Evening Standard

The Gasper front cover, World War I
Front cover of The Gasper, a trench newspaper during the Great War for the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st Royal Fusiliers, with a humorous cartoon on the cover showing a Scottish soldier peering through

Daily Mail newspaper artists office
Photograph of the art department of the Daily Mail, with illustrators working on pictures at large tables in the days when illustration was still as important as photography in newspapers

Advert for Jigsaw puzzles, 1939
Advert for The London Electrotype Agency. Theres nothing like a puzzle ! To keep the children out of mischief... to amuse and entertain the convalescent

Illustrated London News advertisement, 1913
Advertisement for weekly illustrated paper, The Illustrated London News in its sister publication The Sketch, using the metaphor of a spiders web to convey the wide spectrum of subjects covered in

Thomas Talmage
THOMAS TALMAGE - American Dutch Reformed churchman, exceedingly popular preacher who filled churches and whose sermons were reprinted in 3500 newspapers every week ! Date: 1832 - 1902

Express Newspapers H. Q
The Daily Express and Sunday Express newspaper offices, central London. Date: 1970s

Thessaloniki, Greece - Young Paperboys. Date: circa 1910s

Different approaches to personal slights
" You Engleeshe you do not fight ze duel. Vat d you do ven you air insult?" " Oh, we write to the newspaper." Date: 1895

Ukbekistan - Mail Carrier distributing newspapers
Ukbekistan (former Soviet Central Asia) - A horseback Mail Carrier distributing newspapers in the native language. Date: 1933

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