Title: We thundered out : 200 years of The Times, 1785-1985 /
Authors: Howard, Philip, 1933-; Lonsdale, Jack.
Publisher: Times Books,
Year: 1985
Subjects: Times (London, England)
Abstract: In celebration of its 200th birthday, here is the first fully illustrated history of "The Thunderer, the first newspaper that dared to be free. Founded in 1785 by a formerly bankrupt coal merchant to publicise a dubious printing proces, The Times of London grew to become in a few decades the most respected, feared and powerful organ of opinion in the world ... The full story is told of the dedicated owners, writers and printers who created The Times. This is a story of triumphant scoops -- the climbing of Everest or the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb ; of the executio of Louis XVI ; of Waterloo ; of Jack the Ripper ; of infamous libels and of a Times proprietor thrown into prison ; of great Times traditions such as the letters page, the famous Obituaries and the Crossword ; but, above all, this is the story of the creation of press freedom ... this tribute to "The Thunderer" on its 200th anniversary reproduces the greatest stories originally published in The Times with a wide variety of contemporary illustrations and previously unpublished photographs." -- Inside front cover.
Contents: Founding father -- In the beginning -- Owner goes to prison -- Revolution in France -- Trafalgar edition -- Old Crabby: first foreign correspondent [Henry Crabb Robinson] -- "A newspaper should be free" [John Walter II] -- "Most powerful man in the country" [Thomas Barnes] -- Peterloo Massacre [aka Manchester Massacre, 1819] -- Duke and "The Times" [Duke of Wellington] -- Great Exhibition [of 1851] -- "By Jove, I am editor of the Times!" [John Thadeus Delane] -- Palmerston and The Times [Lord Palmerston] -- Responsible to the people of England -- William Howard Russell in the Crimea -- Indian Mutiny -- American Civil War -- Paris by pigeon and balloon [Franco-Prussian War 1870] -- Blowitz scoops the world [Henri Stefan Opper de Blowitz, Paris correspondent] -- Gordon in Khartoum [Frank Power] -- Parnell: the most spectacular mistake [letters implicating Parnell, leader of the Irish parliamentary group in the Commons, with the Phoenix Park murders of 1882] --^