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1821

The Manchester Guardian. John Edward Taylor, who was in the field at Peterloo, founds a newspaper to report what the establishment press would not. It drops Manchester from its title in 1959 and is now one of the most-read English-language news sites in the world.

The Radicals & Reform era

  1. 1819
  2. 1821
  3. 1839
  4. 1844
  5. 1845
  6. 1846
  7. 1852
  8. 1868
  9. 1903
  10. 1918

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