Group    From 1903 

Daily Mirror newspaper

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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Sir Horace B. Marshall (Junior)

Sir Horace B. Marshall (Junior)

Publisher and newspaper distributor and Lord Mayor of London, 1918–1919.  Born Streatham, son of Sir Horace Brooks Marshall, whose business he joined.  His daughter married J. Arthur Rank.   Searc...

Person, Commerce, Journalism / Publishing, Lord Mayor

2 memorials
Baron George Allardice Riddell

Baron George Allardice Riddell

Newspaper proprietor, The News of the World in particular.  Chairman of the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's Inn Road, in 1926 when he, together with George Eastman, and Sir Albert Levy, funded the cons...

Person, Benefactor, Journalism / Publishing

2 memorials
Hogarth Press

Hogarth Press

Publishing house founded by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. It grew from a hobby to become a business, publishing the works of the members of the Bloomsbury Group and books on psychoanalysis and foreig...

Group, Journalism / Publishing

1 memorial
Reynolds News

Reynolds News

Radical newspaper founded by George W. M. Reynolds.  Influenced the young George Lansbury.

Media, Journalism / Publishing

1 memorial
Julius Salter Elias, Viscount Southwood

Julius Salter Elias, Viscount Southwood

'Fairlight' in Wood Lane, Highgate, was built in 1908 for Julius Elias. who was the head of the publishing firm, Odhams Press, and later became Viscount Southwood. There is a book by R.J Minney, 'V...

Person, Journalism / Publishing, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration

4 memorials