14 September 1964 (1) Huw Richards, The Bloody Circus: The Daily Herald and the Left (1997) From its first issue, on April 15, 1912, to its last, on September 14, 1964, the Herald was a challenge to the norms and assumptions of the British press. It advocated revolutionary change in politics and industry, and it acted as a forum for those ideas. In that sense, it can be said to have created a new kind of newspaper - one that was independent from both government and industry, but not necessarily free from profit motive. The Daily Herald was founded by George Lansbury and Arthur Henderson as a rival to the other major daily newspapers of London - The Times and The Sun. It was published by a company they had formed called the News Chronicle Ltd. The Herald's first editor was Henry Halley, who had been with The Times since 1881. He was followed by John Hollingshead, who had been with The Sun since 1890. During this time, the paper developed a national reputation for excellence. It had a colorful staff history, including writers such as George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, and Aldous Huxley. In June 1913, Henry Halley died at the age of 49. His death was a great loss to the paper, which did not recover until John Hollingshead took over as editor in 1914.