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Terence Lancaster
Terence Roger Lancaster (29 November 1920 – 6 October 2007) was a British journalist, socialist, and the political editor of the ''Daily Mirror'' in the 1970s and 1980s. Early life Terence Lancaster was born on 29 November 1920, the only son of Reginald Lancaster, who owned a family firm of printers, and Dorothy (née McMahon) of Salisbury, Wiltshire. During the war he worked as an officer in RAF Intelligence in the Western Desert Campaign, the youngest such officer, and subsequently in Italy and Germany. He had wanted to become air crew, but had failed the medical test. Career After the war he worked for the ''Southern Daily Echo'' in Southampton and '' the Star'', a London evening paper. He contested for Labour the safe Conservative seat of Finchley in 1955, gaining 17,408 votes, and coming second by more than 20%. He never stood again for election. ''Daily Express'' In the mid-1950s he moved to the ''Daily Express'', which at that time was owned by Lord Beaverbrook and w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salisbury
Salisbury ( , ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and civil parish in Wiltshire, England with a population of 41,820, at the confluence of the rivers River Avon, Hampshire, Avon, River Nadder, Nadder and River Bourne, Wiltshire, Bourne. The city is approximately from Southampton and from Bath, Somerset, Bath. Salisbury is in the southeast of Wiltshire, near the edge of Salisbury Plain. An ancient cathedral was north of the present city at Old Sarum Cathedral, Old Sarum. A Salisbury Cathedral, new cathedral was built near the meeting of the rivers and a settlement grew up around it, which received a city charter in 1227 as . This continued to be its official name until 2009 structural changes to local government in England, 2009, when Salisbury City Council was established. Salisbury railway station is an interchange between the West of England line, West of England Line and the Wessex Main Line. Stonehenge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is northwest o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Cudlipp
Hubert Kinsman Cudlipp, Baron Cudlipp, OBE (28 August 1913 – 17 May 1998), was a Welsh journalist and newspaper editor noted for his work on the ''Daily Mirror'' in the 1950s and 1960s. He served as chairman of the Mirror Group group of newspapers from 1963 to 1967, and the chairman of the International Publishing Corporation from 1968 to 1973. Life and career Hugh Cudlipp was born in Cardiff, the youngest of three sons of William Christopher Cudlipp, a traveling salesman, and Bessie Amelia, née Kinsman. He left the Howard Gardens High School for boys (later Howardian High School) at the age of fourteen, working for a number of short-lived local newspapers before transferring at the age of sixteen to Manchester and a job on the '' Manchester Evening Chronicle''. In 1932, aged nineteen, he moved to London to take up a position as features editor of the '' Sunday Chronicle''. In 1935, he joined the staff of the ''Daily Mirror''. He was editor of the '' Sunday Pictoria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Boothroyd
Betty Boothroyd, Baroness Boothroyd (8 October 1929 – 26 February 2023), was a British politician who served as a Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), member of Parliament (MP) for West Bromwich (UK Parliament constituency), West Bromwich and West Bromwich West from 1973 to 2000. A member of the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party, she served as Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom), Speaker of the House of Commons from 1992 to 2000. She was previously a Deputy Speaker from 1987 to 1992. She was the first and , the only woman to serve as Speaker. Boothroyd later sat in the House of Lords as, in accordance with tradition, a crossbench peer. Early life Boothroyd was born in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, in 1929, as the only child of Ben Archibald Boothroyd (1886–1948) and his second wife Mary (''née'' Butterfield, 1901–1982), both textile workers. She was educated at council schools and went on to study at Dewsbury College of Commerce and Art (now Kirklees College). From 194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Today (UK Newspaper)
''Today'' was a national newspaper in the United Kingdom that was published between 1986 and 1995. History ''Today'', with the American newspaper ''USA Today'' as an inspiration, launched on Tuesday 4 March 1986, with the front-page headline, "Second Spy Inside GCHQ". At 18p (equivalent to p in ), it was a middle-market tabloid, a rival to the long-established ''Daily Mail'' and ''Daily Express''. It pioneered computer photo-typesetting and full-colour offset printing at a time when national newspapers were still using Linotype machines, letterpress and could only reproduce photographs in black and white. The colour was initially crude, produced on equipment which had no facility for colour proofing, so the first view of the colour was on the finished product. However, it forced the conversion of all UK national newspapers to electronic production and colour printing. The newspaper's motto, hung in the newsroom, was "propa truth, not propaganda". Launched by regional newspaper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddy Shah
Selim Jehan Shah (born 20 January 1944), commonly known as Eddy Shah or Eddie Shah, is a Manchester-based businessman, the founder of the then technologically advanced UK newspaper ''Today'' in 1986, and of the short-lived tabloid '' The Post''. He is also the former owner of the Messenger Group. Biography Early life and education Eddy Shah was born in Cambridge. His mother was English and his father was Iranian. Shah was educated at Karachi Grammar School, the Scottish co-educational independent boarding school of Gordonstoun, and at both Haywards Heath Grammar School and Haywards Heath Secondary Modern School, at Haywards Heath in Sussex. He then attended a Brighton cram school, where he obtained seven GCE 'O' Levels. Shah held various jobs, amongst which was floor manager for Granada's television studio. One show he worked on was ''Coronation Street''. Publisher After he was fired from the ''Manchester Evening News'' in 1976, he decided to launch into newspaper pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Molloy
Michael Molloy (born 22 December 1940) is a British author and former newspaper editor and cartoonist. Biography Born in Perivale, Molloy studied at Ealing Junior School and the Ealing School of Art before working at the '' Sunday Pictorial'' followed by the ''Daily Sketch'', where he began drawing cartoons. In 1962, he joined the ''Daily Mirror'', where he rose through the ranks until in 1975 he became editor. In 1985, Robert Maxwell appointed Molloy Editor-in-Chief of the ''Daily Mirror'', ''Sunday Mirror'' and ''The People'', where he introduced colour printing. From 1986 to 1988, he additionally edited the ''Sunday Mirror''. From 1985 to 1995, Molloy wrote seven crime fiction books set in England, four featuring Sarah Keane and three featuring Lewis Home. In 1990, Molloy left the Mirror Group, and in 1996 he bought '' Punch'' on behalf of Mohammed Al Fayed. He became its deputy editor, but left after six issues. After retiring from the newspaper industry, he began wri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UK Miners' Strike (1984–85)
UK miners' strike may refer to: * 1893 United Kingdom miners' strike * South Wales miners' strike (1910) * 1912 United Kingdom national coal strike * UK miners' strike (1921) * UK miners' strike (1953) * 1969 United Kingdom miners' strike, a widespread unofficial strike * 1972 United Kingdom miners' strike *UK miners' strike (1974) * 1984–1985 United Kingdom miners' strike, led by Arthur Scargill of the NUM See also * 1926 United Kingdom general strike {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Scargill
Arthur Scargill (born 11 January 1938) is a British trade unionist who was President of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) from 1982 to 2002. He is best known for leading the 1984–1985 UK miners' strike, a major event in the history of the British labour movement. Joining the NUM at the age of 19 in 1957, Scargill was one of its leading activists by the late 1960s. He led an unofficial strike in 1969, and played a key organising role during the strikes of 1972 and 1974, the latter of which played a part in the downfall of Edward Heath's Conservative government. Thereafter Scargill led the NUM through the 1984–1985 miners' strike. It turned into a confrontation with the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher in which the miners' union was defeated. Initially a Young Communist League member, then a Labour Party member, Scargill is now deputy leader of the Socialist Labour Party (SLP), having founded the party in 1996 and served as its leader from the party' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Goodman
Geoffrey George Goodman (2 July 1922 – 5 September 2013)Mike Molloy"Obituary: Geoffrey Goodman" theguardian.com, 6 September 2013. was a British journalist, broadcaster and writer. Following periods on the ''News Chronicle'' and the '' Daily Herald'', he was a senior journalist on the ''Daily Mirror'' from 1969 to 1986. Goodman was known as "the doyen of industrial correspondents" for his extensive contacts and prominent role covering British industrial disputes. He was close to leading left-wing politicians including Harold Wilson, Frank Cousins, Aneurin Bevan and Michael Foot. He briefly served as an economic adviser to Wilson in 1975. After retiring from the ''Daily Mirror'', Goodman was the founding editor of the quarterly ''British Journalism Review'' in 1989, and remained its editor until 2002. In 2020, ''The Sunday Times'' uncovered his role as an agent of the StB, the intelligence agency of communist Czechoslovakia, with whom he had contact between 1955 and 1972. The n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Maxwell
Ian Robert Maxwell (born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch; 10 June 1923 – 5 November 1991) was a Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovak-born British media proprietor, politician and fraudster. After escaping the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, Nazi occupation of his native country, Maxwell joined the Czechoslovak Legion (1939), Czechoslovak Army in exile during World War II and was decorated after active service in the British Army. In subsequent years he worked in publishing, building up Pergamon Press to a major academic publisher. After six years as a Labour Party (UK), Labour Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) during the 1960s, Maxwell again put all his energy into business, successively buying the British Printing Corporation, Mirror Group Newspapers and Macmillan Publishers, among other publishing companies. Robert Maxwell led a flamboyant lifestyle, living in Headington Hill Hall in Oxford, from which he often flew in his helicopter, or saili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Haines (journalist)
Joseph Thomas William Haines (29 January 1928 – 19 February 2025) was a British journalist and press secretary to UK Labour Party, Labour Party leader and Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Early life and career Born in Rotherhithe, then an impoverished area of London with appalling housing conditions, Haines was the youngest child of a dock worker who died when he was two. His mother, a cleaner at a hospital, brought up the family. He joined the Labour Party as a teenager. At 14, he became a copy boy on the Glasgow ''Bulletin'', and then a lobby reporter at Westminster in 1950. In 1954, Haines became the political correspondent for ''George Outram & Co.'' in Glasgow, before moving to Edinburgh around 1960 to work for the ''Daily Mail#Scottish Daily Mail, Scottish Daily Mail''. From 1964 he was employed by the pre-Murdoch ''The Sun (United Kingdom)#The Sun before Rupert Murdoch, Sun'', and became Harold Wilson's press secretary in 1969.Dennis Griffiths (ed.) ''The Encyclopedia of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Wilson
James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx (11 March 1916 – 23 May 1995) was a British statesman and Labour Party (UK), Labour Party politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1964 to 1970 and again from 1974 to 1976. He was Leader of the Labour Party (UK), Leader of the Labour Party from 1963 to 1976, Leader of the Opposition (United Kingdom), Leader of the Opposition twice from 1963 to 1964 and again from 1970 to 1974, and a Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) from 1945 United Kingdom general election, 1945 to 1983 United Kingdom general election, 1983. Wilson is the only Labour leader to have formed administrations following four general elections. Born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, to a politically active lower middle-class family, Wilson studied a combined degree of philosophy, politics and economics at Jesus College, Oxford. He was later an Economic History lecturer at New College, Oxford, and a research fello ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
