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225,983 (as of May 2024) [ 2] OCLC number. 223228477. Website. www .mirror .co .uk. The Daily Mirror is a British national daily tabloid newspaper. [ 3] Founded in 1903, it is owned by parent company Reach plc. From 1985 to 1987, and from 1997 to 2002, the title on its masthead was simply The Mirror.
Breakdown of UK daily newspaper circulation, 1956 to 2019. At the start of the 19th century, the highest-circulation newspaper in the United Kingdom was the Morning Post, which sold around 4,000 copies per day, twice the sales of its nearest rival. As production methods improved, print runs increased and newspapers were sold at lower prices.
Bloody Mary (folklore) An early 20th-century Halloween greeting card depicts a divination ritual in which a woman stares into a mirror in a darkened room to catch a glimpse of the face of her future husband. The shadow of a witch is cast onto the wall at left. Bloody Mary is a legend of a ghost, phantom, or spirit conjured to reveal the future.
Black Country Bugle – weekly look at the history of the Black Country, published in newspaper format. Bulletin – online only UK newspaper. Classic Car Weekly – weekly newspaper for the classic car enthusiast. The Day – online daily newspaper for schools. The Economist – weekly news-focused magazine.
History of British newspapers. Linotype operators preparing hot-metal type 'slugs' to be assembled in columns and pages by hand compositors. This letterpress mode of newspaper production was supplanted in the 1970s and 1980s by the cleaner, more economical offset litho process. The history of British newspapers begins in the 17th century with ...
Sir Lucas White King. Cecil Harmsworth King (20 February 1901 – 17 April 1987) was Chairman of Daily Mirror Newspapers, Sunday Pictorial Newspapers, and the International Publishing Corporation (1963–1968), and a director at the Bank of England (1965–1968).
Known for. first Western reporter to Iraq, first Western journalist to access Saddam Hussein's bunker. Notable credit. Daily Mirror. Awards. 2013 Specialist Journalist of the Year. Website. www.mirror.co.uk. Chris Hughes is a British tabloid journalist and author best known for his reporting of the Iraq War and war in Afghanistan .
Discovered as Georgium Sidus, later known as Uranus was one of the famous discoveries made from the British Isles The mirror from the 40-foot telescope, on display at the Science Museum, London. Former Royal Greenwich Observatory, Herstmonceux , East Sussex; this was an important site for telescopes in the latter 20th century in England.