The Telegraph HistoricalArchive, 1855-2000

The Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855-2000
is the fully-searchable digital archive of what was once theworld’s largest selling newspaper. Researchers and students
can full-text search across one million pages of the newspaper’s
backfile, from its first issue in 1855 to the end of 2000, including
issues of the Sunday Telegraph from 1961.
Providing a balance of personal interest stories alongside
incisive analysis, The Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855-2000
offers a fascinating glimpse into daily life as it was experienced
over the past 150 years. The archive supports research acrossmultiple disciplines, including business, arts, international
relations, science, and philosophy, with coverage of all major
events through the course of the twentieth century and thesecond half of the nineteenth century. The availability of largescale delivery of collection data and metadata through Gale’s text
and data mining programme enhances the opportunities for thiscollection in digital humanities and social sciences scholarship.
Further deepening Gale’s coverage of the British national
newspaper press, The Telegraph is a superb complement toother newspaper titles in Gale Artemis: Primary Sources, providing
an alternative voice to titles such as The Times and the Daily
Mail for researchers.

gale.cengage.co.uk/telegraphAbout The Telegraph

Launched in 1855, The Telegraph was the first 1d morning paper (The Timeswas 7d). By 1876, The Telegraph was the largest-selling newspaper in theworld, with a circulation of 300,000. The newspaper was directed at awealthy, educated readership and is commonly associated with traditional
Toryism, despite its more liberal beginnings. The Telegraph shifted to amore conservative political position in the late 1870s, when the newspaper
began to support Prime Minister Disraeli over the “Eastern Question” ofthe decline of the Ottoman Empire.
Under the editorship of poet and Orientalist Edwin Arnold (from 1873to 1899), the paper published widely on foreign
affairs and foreign cultures. This
led to The Telegraph’s coverage ofHenry Morton Stanley’s expedition
to Africa in search of David
Livingstone, which it co-sponsoredwith the New York Herald.
The Telegraph is generally seen bypress historians as the start of a
new era of journalism that emerged
following the repeal of stamp duty andmarked the first step toward the massmarket journalism of the Daily Mail.

29 June, 1855

Daily Telegraph & Courier launchedby Colonel Arthur Sleigh, edited by
Alfred Bate Richards

1876

The Telegraph has the selfproclaimed ‘largest circulationin the world’6 October–6 December, 1897
Winston Churchill contributes
a series of articles from
the Malakand campaign

28 October, 1908

An interview with Kaiser Wilhelm IIthat raises diplomatic eyebrowsis publishedTry it out for yourself. Visit gale.cengage.co.uk/telegraph to register for a free trial.

Notable Contributors & Content Highlights
 eorge Augustus Sala (1828-1895): One of the most famousGjournalists of the day; a reporter-celebrity who became thenewspaper’s flagship writer. Sala pioneered a more lively,
personal style of journalism and was known for travelling with arevolver, corkscrew, and dress suit. He reported from all over theworld, from places including Russia, North Africa, Australia, andMexico. He also reported on the U.S. Civil War.
 inston Churchill: Churchill’s first journalistic content isW
contained within the pages of The Telegraph. His series of war
letters from India appeared in the paper at the close of thenineteenth century, when Churchill was a young army officer.
 he Daily Telegraph/Kaiser Wilhelm affair: In 1908, theTDaily Telegraph published an infamous interview with KaiserWilhelm, the German chancellor. The Kaiser’s uncensoredcomments were published in full for the world to see,successfully alienating Britain (he suggested that Germanpeople had no care for the British, claiming ‘you English aremad, mad, mad as march hares’), France and Russia (he impliedthat France and Russia had tried to persuade Germany to enter
the Boer War against the British), and Japan (he suggested that theGerman naval build-up was aimed more at Japan than Britain).
 he cryptic crossword puzzle (as featured in the filmTThe Imitation Game) which was circulated to recruit Allied
codebreakers during the Second World War was published inThe Telegraph on 13 January 1942. Unbeknown at the time thepuzzle was published, those who completed the puzzle within the12-minute deadline were contacted by the War Office regarding
a matter ‘of national importance.’ Successful candidates became
code-breakers at Bletchley Park.

ComplementaryGale DigitalCollections
Daily Mail Historical Archive,
1896-2004
The Times Digital Archive
The Illustrated London NewsHistorical Archive, 1842-2003
19th Century British Newspapers
Nineteenth Century Collections
Online: British Politics and Society

30 July, 1925

First daily crossword in a British
newspaper is published in
The Telegraph

7 July, 1934

The reporting of the Night of theLong Knives sees the paper bannedin Germany until 27 July

April 1947

Circulation rises over one
million for the first time

15 November, 1994

The Electronic Telegraph islaunched as the first British
daily newspaper website

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