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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Ruth First

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1 memorial
Claudia Jones

Claudia Jones

Born Trinidad. Moved to New York where she became a Communist. Caught up in the McCarthy trials she was imprisoned and then extradited to Britain in December 1955. Became a community organiser afte...

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Tin Pan Alley

Tin Pan Alley

‘Tin Pan Alley’ originally, 1885, referred to the section of New York City where music publishers and songwriters were based.  In 1920s London music shops congregated in Denmark Street and the term...

Place, Journalism / Publishing, Music / songs

1 memorial
Hearst Corporation

Hearst Corporation

Company created by William Randolph Hearst's father and made extremely successful and powerful by WRH.

Group, Journalism / Publishing, USA

1 memorial
Sutton Talking Newspaper for the Blind

Sutton Talking Newspaper for the Blind

A charity run entirely by volunteers, which each week records local news taken from the Sutton Guardian, for blind and visually impaired people in the Borough of Sutton.

Media, Journalism / Publishing, Social Welfare

1 memorial