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In November 2004, The Telegraph celebrated the tenth anniversary of its website, Electronic Telegraph, now renamed www.telegraph.co.uk. The Electronic Telegraph launched in 1995 with The Daily Telegraph Guide to the Internet [citation needed] by writer Sue Schofield for an annual charge of £180.00.
Jun 29, 2015 · From the start, 160 years ago today, the Daily Telegraph was fast, radical and popular. How surprising its Victorian readers were. Colt revolvers were for sale on the front page.
- Early History
- Edward Levy-Lawson and Viscount Burnham
- William and Gomer Berry
- Clare Hollingworth and Outbreak of World War II
- Viscount Camrose
- The Sunday Telegraph
- Later Issues
- Daily Telegraph Supplements
- Political Stance
- The Telegraph Circulation Figures
The year 1855 saw the abolition of stamp duty on newspapers, allowing the development of affordable daily papers for a wider public. The Daily Telegraph was founded by Colonel Arthur B Sleigh, as the ‘Daily Telegraph and Courier’ on 29th June 1855. The paper began to be sold at the price of two pence. Sleigh had set up the paper to pursue his quarr...
Edward Levy-Lawson controlled the Daily Telegraph long before the death of his father in 1888. He was appointed 1st Baron Burnham in 1903, reflecting his importance to the Fleet Street newspaper publishing industry. He retired as the proprietor of the paper in the same year and was described by Viscount Camrose as the ‘originator of morning journal...
Viscount Burnham sold the Daily Telegraph to the newspaper publishers, William and Gomer Berry on 1st January 1928, but members of the Burnham family continued to serve on the board of the Daily Telegraph until 1986. In 1925, the Telegraph published the first crossword in a British newspaper. The Berry brothers split their newspaper holdings in 193...
The newspaper had a breakthrough when one of their correspondents, Clare Hollingworth, announced the outbreak of World War II after she spotted German tanks on the Polish border. Her story made headlines three days before the invasion occurred and she was the first correspondent to report the outbreak, described as the “scoop of the century.” In 19...
Baron Camrose purchased the Morning Post on 24th August 1937, which was the favoured newspaper of the retired officer class. He merged the paper with the Daily Telegraph on 1st October 1937. The Daily Telegraph began printing news stories on the front page before the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. The circulation of the Daily Telegraph u...
The Sunday Telegraph is printed in broadsheet format and takes a centre-right political stance, supporting the Conservative Party at the 2005 general election. It was the first new national Sunday newspaper to be published in the UK for 40 years. The Sunday Telegraph contained a greater coverage of news stories than other Sunday newspapers, which p...
In 1986, the first colour issue of the newspaper was released and the paper became all-electronic due to new technology. Mr Conrad Black, the Canadian financier and owner of the Hollinger Inc newspaper group, increased his shareholding in the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph to 57% in February 1986, whilst Lord Hartwell subsequently stood d...
The Daily Telegraph contains many supplements that deal with a variety of different topics. The Saturday edition of the Daily Telegraph currently contains the ‘Weekend’ section (includes puzzles and features on food, drink and the outdoors), plus the ‘Sport’, ‘Your Money’, ‘Review’, ‘Travel’, ‘Property’, ‘Gardening’ and ‘Motoring’ newspaper supplem...
The Telegraph takes a centre-right political stance, supporting the Conservative Party. Though the paper backed the Liberal Party under William Gladstone in its early years, the paper endorsed the Conservative Party at the 2005 General Election. Back to the top ↑
The Telegraph circulation figures have been a bit up and down over the years, especially between 1863 and 1939. The figures increased by more than double in 1910, then dropping hugely in 1930. The figures began picking up again after 1939, reaching peak circulation in 1980. Like other newspaper titles, the circulation figures have been declining in...
On 17 September, 1855, The Daily Telegraph became the country’s first penny newspaper. It proved a canny move, making the paper affordable and meeting the need of a public whose literacy was steadily increasing, and with it a curiosity about the world at large.
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Sep 16, 2024 · In 1837 the British inventors Sir William Fothergill Cooke and Sir Charles Wheatstone obtained a patent on a telegraph system that employed six wires and actuated five needle pointers attached to five galvanoscopes at the receiver.
Jan 24, 2018 · The paper examines the early development of the Victorian inland telegraph, and more precisely the telegraphic despatches, or telegrams, as they became widely known. The first telegram service in Britain was launched by the Electric Telegraph Company two decades before nationalization of the telegraphs in 1870.
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Mar 24, 2019 · In 1851 a functional telegraph cable had been laid across the English Channel. Not only could news travel between Paris and London, but the technological feat seemed to symbolize the peace between Britain and France just a few decades after the Napoleonic Wars.
