We thundered out 200 years of the Times, 1785-1985 hardback book by Philip Howard research by Jack Lonsdale Good ...

We thundered out 200 years of the Times, 1785-1985 hardback book by Philip Howard research by Jack Lonsdale Good copy in original gilt-blocked cloth with some wear and tear as with age. Remains well-preserved overall; bright and clean. Physical description; 175 p. ; ill. ; 38 cm. Notes; Ill. on lining papers. Includes index. 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] -- Jack the Ripper: no gruesome detail spared -- Flora Shaw and the Jameson Raid (Boer War, South Africa, 1895) -- Queen Victoria and the atrocious Times -- Our man in Morocco [Walter Burton Harris] -- Trying to stop the rot [Moberly Bell] -- Northcliffe to the rescue [Lord Northcliffe] -- Chief in charge -- Great War and the censor [World War I] -- Prime Minister unmade [Herbert Asquith and Lloyd George] -- Votes for women [Women's suffrage] -- The Times picture page -- Tutankhamun: Fleet Street scooped [Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon 1922] -- General strike: we thunder on [1926] -- Abdication crisis: spokesman or manipulator? [Prince of Wales and Wallis Simpson 1936] -- Appeasement and other errors -- Blitz no interference with production [World War II] -- Everest scoop [Hillary and Tenzing, 1953] -- Winston Churchill and The Times -- Hayley: one of the great editors [Sir William Haley] -- News on the front page -- Closure -- Royal events -- Agony column -- Advertising -- Theatre -- Parliament -- Law -- Some of our own correspondents -- Assassinations -- Silly season -- Women -- Invective -- Book reviews -- Letters -- Court page -- Obituaries -- City -- Sport -- Cricket -- Crossword -- Index to The Times -- Index. Subjects; Times, newspaper. Times Newspapers Limited. Times. Times (London, England). Times (London, England) History. Press. Newspapers Great Britain History. Professions/Occupations. Publishers. Great Britain. Newspapers. History. Journalism. Journalists. News flow. Newspapers with London imprints Times The, to 1982. Genres; History. Illustrated. 2 Kg. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99