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National newspapers published in the United Kingdom

  • The TimesThe Times of London has been arriving on breakfast tables, shaping prime ministers, and sparking controversy since the 1st of January 1785.
  • The GuardianThe Guardian was born on the 5th of May 1821 - by chance the very day Napoleon Bonaparte died - as a weekly paper selling for 7d in the streets of Manchester.
  • Daily ExpressThe first issue of the Daily Express appeared on the 24th of April 1900. Sir Arthur Pearson launched this broadsheet newspaper in London that same year.
  • The Daily TelegraphThe Daily Telegraph was founded on the 29th of June 1855 by a man trying to win a personal argument. Colonel Arthur B. Sleigh had a grievance against Prince…
  • The ObserverThe Observer hit the streets of London for the first time on the 4th of December 1791, and it has never missed a Sunday since.
  • The IndependentThe Independent arrived on British newsstands on the 7th of October 1986, born from a shared conviction among three journalists that something different was…
  • Daily MailOn the 4th of May 1896, Alfred Harmsworth launched a newspaper in London that cost half a penny when every rival charged a full penny.
  • Financial TimesThe Financial Times was launched on the 10th of January 1888 as a four-page journal called the London Financial Guide, and within a month it had already…
  • The EconomistThe Economist was born in 1843 with a single, urgent purpose: to kill a law. James Wilson, a Scottish economist and businessman, launched the newspaper to…
  • The Guardian WeeklyThe first edition of the Manchester Guardian Weekly printed on the 4th of July 1919 arrived just one week after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.