When the German army marched into the Channel Islands in June 1940, the oldest continuous possession of the British crown suddenly found itself cut adrift
Category: Journalism History
The Westminster Gazette- London’s lost evening and the ‘pea-green incorruptible’
If the decline in reading newspapers could be reversed by printing on green, surely the London Standard would have tried this before becoming a weekly.
London’s most successful evening newspaper which lasted 99 years
The London Evening News was snuffed out on Friday 31st October 1980 just seven months short of its centenary. Its front page seemed to take
The Star: Fifty years of London’s forgotten evening newspaper
This feature explores the rise and fall of a campaigning evening newspaper now long lost to history. It was January 17th 1938, and one of