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Background imageReporting Collection: Dail Mail / Typing Story

Dail Mail / Typing Story
An office at the Daily Mail showing a story being wired to Manchester for duplicating in the Manchester edition. Date: 1950 s

Background imageReporting Collection: WW1 - Journalists greeted by German shells at Reims

WW1 - Journalists greeted by German shells at Reims
Journalists (chosen by the French government) are greeted by German shells at Reims! Date: 1915

Background imageReporting Collection: Cartoon, German communique, WW1

Cartoon, German communique, WW1
Cartoon, German communique, a satirical comment on a German claim that their squadron has sunk a Russian torpedo boat with the loss of 15, 000 lives

Background imageReporting Collection: Man reporting boat in trouble, Penzance, Cornwall

Man reporting boat in trouble, Penzance, Cornwall
A man on horseback, reporting a boat in trouble during a storm, Penzance, Cornwall. Date: circa 1870s

Background imageReporting Collection: WW1 - British Recruits - The central recruiting headquarters

WW1 - British Recruits - The central recruiting headquarters
WW1 - A group of young British men and the first Derby group, reporting themselves at the central recruiting headquarters

Background imageReporting Collection: Receiving late news on the tape telegraph at Daily Chronicle

Receiving late news on the tape telegraph at Daily Chronicle
A late news item received on the tape telegraph and telephoned at once down to the machine room at The Daily Chronicle to guarantee inclusion in that days edition. Date: 1914

Background imageReporting Collection: Advertisement for The Sphere magazine, WW1

Advertisement for The Sphere magazine, WW1
Advertisement in The Tatler for its sister paper, The Sphere, which claims to be, the best periscope through which to see the fighting by sea and by land

Background imageReporting Collection: Preliminary artillery bombardments in Battle of Flanders

Preliminary artillery bombardments in Battle of Flanders
Keeping the gunners posted as to targets and ranges in action: Telephoning instructions from observation-officers to the batteries from a captured German dug-out. Date: 1917

Background imageReporting Collection: Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett writing a despatch, Dardanelles, WW1

Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett writing a despatch, Dardanelles, WW1
Ellis Ashmead-Barlett (1881-1931), British war correspondent, pictured at his typewriter resting on ammunition boxes after the landing at Anafarta, writing a despatch

Background imageReporting Collection: WW1 by Winston Churchill in the Sunday Pictorial

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

Background imageReporting Collection: British war correspondents in trench, Western Front, WW1

British war correspondents in trench, Western Front, WW1
British war correspondents in a trench, watching an aerial combat, on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Background imageReporting Collection: Canadian journalists visit France, Western Front, WW1

Canadian journalists visit France, Western Front, WW1
Canadian journalists visiting the Western Front in France during World War One. Seen here with Lord Lovat at a Canadian sawmill. Date: circa 1916

Background imageReporting Collection: Magazine page, fire brigade sports news

Magazine page, fire brigade sports news
A magazine page reporting fire brigade sports news from Birmingham, Manchester and London. Prizes shown in the photographs are for swimming (London)

Background imageReporting Collection: Joe Coyne & Ellis Ashmead-Barlett

Joe Coyne & Ellis Ashmead-Barlett
Front cover of The Tatler featuring Joseph (Joe) Coyne (1867-1941), American actor and singer, entertaining crowds at the Empire Theatre during World War

Background imageReporting Collection: Round the clock with a bomber squadron

Round the clock with a bomber squadron. The bomber pilot and captain starts his day with a wash; he sets out with his crew on the back of a vehicle; the crew climb a ladder to board the aircraft

Background imageReporting Collection: Dishevelled maid tries to explain lack of bread to Mistress

Dishevelled maid tries to explain lack of bread to Mistress
A dishevelled maid tries to explain lack of bread to her Mistress by explaining that the Baker has " been and gone", but obviously had intentions other than delivering a few loaves

Background imageReporting Collection: FROISSART, Jean (1333-1410). French chronicler

FROISSART, Jean (1333-1410). French chronicler
" FROISSART, Jean (1333-1410). French chronicler of the Hundred Years War. Froissart writing his " Chroniques"

Background imageReporting Collection: 1953 Coronation - Rubbish in the stands after crowds had lef

1953 Coronation - Rubbish in the stands after crowds had lef
Page from the Daily Sketch reporting on the eyesore and scandal of the uncleared rubbish left behind in the stands along the processional route following the 1953 Coronation

Background imageReporting Collection: War Correspondents fly to France, 1939

War Correspondents fly to France, 1939
British and American war correspondents prepare to fly to France in the early weeks of World War II. All wear officers uniform but without the usual distinguishing marks of rank

Background imageReporting Collection: G. K. Chesterton Our Notebook - comment on the Titanic

G. K. Chesterton Our Notebook - comment on the Titanic
Page from the Illustrated London News with the magazines weekly column, Our Notebook, by G. K. Chesterton commenting on the disaster of the sinking of the White Star passenger liner, RMS Titanic

Background imageReporting Collection: Item from The Scout newspaper

Item from The Scout newspaper, reporting from Grenada in the West Indies on the 1st Grenada Troop, who have helped the Fire Brigade put out a fire at a local lumber yard. November 1926

Background imageReporting Collection: Woman on telephone reporting something suspicious

Woman on telephone reporting something suspicious
A woman seen through the front window of her house, speaking on the telephone to report something suspicious, possibly an attempted burglary

Background imageReporting Collection: Burradon Colliery mining disaster

Burradon Colliery mining disaster
Report in the Illustrated London News, 10th March 1860, describing the terrible coal mining accident which occurred on 2nd March of that year at Burradon Colliery near Newcastle when a fatal

Background imageReporting Collection: Special artists working for The Illustrated London News

Special artists working for The Illustrated London News
Portraits of Melton Prior and H.C. Seppings appear in the Illustrated London News with their sketches in the background; the title reads, Our Special Artists in Africa

Background imageReporting Collection: Melton Prior

Melton Prior
The English artist and war correspondent for the Illustrated London News from the early 1870s until 1904. He was noted for his ability to sketch scenes quickly

Background imageReporting Collection: Bonus Army fought with tear-gas

Bonus Army fought with tear-gas
During the Great Depression US World War One veterans, popularly called the Bonus Army, marched on Washington in the summer of 1932 demanding immediate payment of their Service Certificates which

Background imageReporting Collection: Metropolitan Police Specimen Reports book

Metropolitan Police Specimen Reports book
A Metropolitan Police instruction book: Specimen Reports: A Guide for Police in Reporting Accidents, Collisions, Etc. How to Report a Case for Summons

Background imageReporting Collection: War in the Pacific

War in the Pacific
Pages from The Sphere, 20th December 1941, with an article and accompanying photographs and illustrations about the loss of the British battleship Prince of Wales and the battlecruiser Repulse

Background imageReporting Collection: The Disaster of the Scott Expedition

The Disaster of the Scott Expedition
Page from The Sphere, a journal which took great interest in the expedition to the South Pole of Captain Scott, which gives a commentary on the disaster

Background imageReporting Collection: Sporting Evening Times, Titanic disaster

Sporting Evening Times, Titanic disaster
Front page of the Sporting Evening Times for 16 April 1912, reporting on the Titanic disaster

Background imageReporting Collection: Frederic Villers

Frederic Villers
Frederic Villiers, the famous war artists and " special" artist for The Illustrated London News pictured at the front from where he was reporting during World War One

Background imageReporting Collection: Read by the World: The Illustrated London News overseas

Read by the World: The Illustrated London News overseas
Series of images by A. Forestier showing readers of the Illustrated London News around the world, a reflection of the papers immense popularity both home and abroad

Background imageReporting Collection: Police Report for Duty

Police Report for Duty
Policemen receiving instructions before going out on the beat Metropolitan Police

Background imageReporting Collection: Olympics Reporters 1936

Olympics Reporters 1936
The Press Box at the Berlin Olympics, 1936

Background imageReporting Collection: Persian Spy Observes

Persian Spy Observes
A Persian spy hides behind some rocks observing the Spartan troops of Leonidas before reporting back to Xerxes, his king, that the Greeks are few in number

Background imageReporting Collection: Reporters Room / Mail

Reporters Room / Mail
The reporters room at the Daily Mail showing journalists busy at their typewriters

Background imageReporting Collection: Reporter at Work

Reporter at Work
For some reason, reporters are universally depicted as snooping at keyholes or peeking at peoples private lives

Background imageReporting Collection: Reporting / Helle, 1908

Reporting / Helle, 1908
Comment on the total lack of privacy for public figures (the Presidential nightmare in France)



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