Tabloid newspaper. Created by Alfred Harmsworth, initially as a paper for women by women but the following year he changed it to be a picture paper with a male editor and he fired all the female journalists. In 1913 he sold the paper to his brother Harold.
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Daily Mirror newspaper
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Hippodrome - Harry Houdini
The plaque refers to the London Daily Mirror newspaper which challenged Houdi...
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Lippincott's Magazine
Monthly magazine. Published in Philadelphia until 1915 when it relocated to New York to become McBride's Magazine. It merged with Scribner's Magazine in 1916. It published original works, general a...
1 memorial
Baron Paul Julius Reuter
Pioneer of telegraphy and news reporting. Born Kassel, Germany as Israel Josaphat. He set up a pigeon post service between Aachen and Brussels. Attracted by the establishment of the Dover-Calais t...
1 memorial
Martha Gellhorn
American novelist, travel writer, and journalist, considered one of the great war correspondents of the 20th century. Gellhorn reported on virtually every major world conflict that took place durin...
1 memorial
Peter Warlock
Born The Savoy Hotel, as Philip Arnold Heseltine. Peter Warlock was his pseudonym. Journalist, music critic and composer. His music was heavily influenced by Elizabethan and Celtic culture. Influen...
2 memorials
Thomas de Quincey
Born Manchester. Author, best known for "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" (1821). Was as addicted to books as much as to drink or opium, sometimes renting an extra lodging (which he could not...
1 memorial
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