Leeds Times Explained

Leeds Times
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Editor:Robert Nicoll, Samuel Smiles[1]
Foundation:7 March 1833
Ceased Publication:30 March 1901

The Leeds Times was a weekly newspaper established in 1833, and published at the office in Briggate, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.[2] It ceased publication on 30 March 1901, with Robert Nicoll as one of its first editors,[3] and Samuel Smiles as its editor from 1839 to 1848.[4]

History

The first issue of Leeds Times was on Thursday 7 March 1833,[5] the last issue was 30 March 1901.[6]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: David Churchill. Crime Control and Everyday Life in the Victorian City: The Police and the Public. 2017. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-879784-5. 228–.
  2. Book: Edward Parsons. The Tourist's Companion; Or, The History of the Scenes and Places on the Route by the Railroad and Steam-packet from Leeds and Selby to Hull. 1835. Whittaker. 49–.
  3. Book: James Silk Buckingham. John Sterling. Frederick Denison Maurice, Henry Stebbing, Charles Wentworth Dilke, Thomas Kibble Hervey, William Hepworth Dixon, Norman Maccoll, Vernon Horace Rendall, John Middleton Murry. The Athenaeum: A Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music, and the Drama. 1871. J. Francis. 423–.
  4. R. J. Morris The Historical Journal, Vol. 24, No. 1 (March 1981), pp. 89-109 Samuel Smiles and the Genesis of Self-Help; the Retreat to a Petit Bourgeois Utopia
  5. Book: The Yorkshire Magazine: A Monthly Literary Magazine. 1874. Yorkshire Literary Union. 336–.
  6. Web site: Leeds Times in British Newspaper Archive. 1874. British Newspaper Archive. 20 July 2019.