 Front page of the first issue of the Evening News from July 26 1881.  Front page of the Evening News from June 9 1944. The Evening News was a evening newspaper published in London from 1881 to 1980. (Reappearing briefly in 1987.) It became highly popular under the control of the Harmsworth brothers. For a long time it maintained the largest daily sale of any evening newspaper in London. After financial struggles and falling sales it was eventually merged with its long time rival the Evening Standard in 1980. This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...
Year 1881 (MDCCCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ...
1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...
1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (July 15, 1865, Dublin - August 14, 1922, London) was an influential and successful newspaper owner. ...
Headlines of the Evening Standard on the day of London bombing on July 7, 2005, in Waterloo Station The Evening Standard is a British tabloid newspaper published and sold in London and surrounding areas of southeast England. ...
1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...
The paper was founded by Coleridge Kennard and Harry Marks. The first issue appeared on July 26, 1881. It was the first popular evening paper in London. It was priced at one halfpenny, distinguishing itself from the more serious penny papers such as The Times. The first issues were printed on light blue paper and later editions on yellow and green paper. July 26 is the 207th day (208th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 158 days remaining. ...
Year 1881 (MDCCCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ...
This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...
British halfpenny, 1957 It was long considered that the first halfpenny coins were produced in the reign of King Edward I (1272–1307), with earlier requirements for small change being provided by cut coinage; that is, pennies cut into halves or quarters, usually along the cross which formed a prominent...
For silver pennies produced after 1820 see Maundy money. ...
The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom since 1785, and under its current name since 1788. ...
The rivalry between halfpenny papers in the late 19th century was fierce and almost ended the Evening News. According to some sources the paper was losing £40,000 a year. In 1894 the brothers Alfred and Harold Harmsworth bought the paper for £25,000. Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (July 15, 1865, Dublin - August 14, 1922, London) was an influential and successful newspaper owner. ...
Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere (1868 - 1940) was a highly successful British newspaper proprietor, owner of Associated Newspapers. ...
In 1888 Alfred had founded a paper caller Answers that was modelled after another popular paper called Tit-Bits. Harold gave up his clerk’s job to handle the business-side of the papers while Alfred effectively controlled the papers with great success. Later on Alfred became Lord Northcliffe and Harold became Lord Rothmere. The brothers started several papers of which the Daily Mail became the most influential. Year 1888 (MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (July 15, 1865, Dublin - August 14, 1922, London) was an influential and successful newspaper owner. ...
The Daily Mail is a British, tabloid newspaper, first published in 1896. ...
Under the editor Kennedy Jones the Evening News was one of the papers that transformed the English press with their so called new journalism. This meant that the papers were aimed at a wider general public than the traditional ones, such as The Times. The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom since 1785, and under its current name since 1788. ...
The Evening News became one of the leading papers in England under the control of Northcliffe. In 1900 evening newspapers where not considered to be good investments and most of the London news papers were losing money. At the same time the Evening News was making profit of £50,000 a year. Year 1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar, but a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. ...
The circulation numbers of English newspapers between 1850 and 1930s can only be guessed at. (The newspapers would not publish exact figures except in their advertising, which cannot be trusted.) Some authors have carefully estimated that in 1910 the circulation of the Evening News was 300,000. Among the halfpenny evening papers this would amount to a share of 35,7 percent. The estimate for the average circulation of July 1914 is approximately 600,000, which would make it the biggest evening paper in London. Best-selling English language daily newspapers as of 2002, with circulation: The Sun 3,541,002 United Kingdom (tabloid) The Daily Mail 2,342,982 United Kingdom (tabloid) The Daily Mirror 2,148,058 United Kingdom (tabloid) The Times of India 2,144,842 India USA Today 2,120,357...
Year 1850 (MDCCCL) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
The 1930s (years from 1930–1939) were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression, also known in Europe as the World Depression. ...
1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ...
1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
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Northcliffe's reign ended in his death in 1922. After that the control of the Associated Newspapers, including the Daily Mail, Evening News, Weekly Dispatch and Overseas Daily Mail, was bought by his brother Harold. After 1936 Harold’s son Esmond took over as the chairman of the Associated Newspapers. Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ...
Associated Newspapers is a subsidiary of Daily Mail and General Trust and publishes five major UK newspaper titles; Daily Mail Mail on Sunday Evening Standard Ireland on Sunday Metro External links ANP Home ...
The Daily Mail is a British, tabloid newspaper, first published in 1896. ...
1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Esmond Cecil Harmsworth, 2nd Viscount Rothermere (May 29, 1898 – July 12, 1978) was a British Conservative politician and press magnate. ...
Associated Newspapers is a subsidiary of Daily Mail and General Trust and publishes five major UK newspaper titles; Daily Mail Mail on Sunday Evening Standard Ireland on Sunday Metro External links ANP Home ...
Although being the biggest evening paper in London for decades, at the turn of the 1980s the Evening News was struggling with financial problems and falling sales. In October 1980 the Associated Newspapers announced that the newspaper would be closed at the end of the month. The last issue was on October 31, 1980. The paper was merged with its long time rival the Evening Standard. For some time the resulting paper was called the New Standard. The name Evening News is still featured on the masthead of the Evening Standard. The 1980s refers to the years of and between 1980 and 1989. ...
1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...
Associated Newspapers is a subsidiary of Daily Mail and General Trust and publishes five major UK newspaper titles; Daily Mail Mail on Sunday Evening Standard Ireland on Sunday Metro External links ANP Home ...
October 31 is the 304th day of the year (305th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 61 days remaining. ...
1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...
Headlines of the Evening Standard on the day of London bombing on July 7, 2005, in Waterloo Station The Evening Standard is a British tabloid newspaper published and sold in London and surrounding areas of southeast England. ...
The Evening News reappeared for few months in 1987 after which it was once again integrated into the Evening Standard. 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Evening News is often incorrectly quoted as the London Evening News. This was a different newspaper that, according to Stanley Morison, had started in 1855. Headlines of the Evening Standard on the day of London bombing on July 7, 2005, in Waterloo Station The Evening Standard is an English tabloid newspaper published and sold in London and surrounding areas. ...
Stanley Morison (May 6, 1889—October 11, 1967) was an English typographer and literary editor. ...
1855 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
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- Blake, R. (2004) 20 March 2007 Harmsworth, Esmond Cecil, second Viscount Rothermere (1898–1978). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Engel, M. (1996) Tickle the Public : One hundred years of the popular press. Gollancz, London.
- Herd, H. (1952) The march of journalism : the story of the British press from 1622 to the present day. Allen & Unwin, London.
- Lee, A.J. (1976) The Origins of the Popular Press in England 1855–1914. Croom Helm, London.
- Morison, S. (1932) The English Newspaper : Some Account of the Physical Development of Journals Printed in London Between 1622 & the Present Day. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
- Pound, R. & Harmsworth, G. (1959) Northcliffe. Cassell, London.
External Link - Simms, R. (2006) The History of the Evening News
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