The ''Salisbury Journal'' is the local newspaper for the

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, Wi ...

area of England.

History

Founded in 1729, it was revived by William Collins in 1736, who used it to oppose the government of Sir

Robert Walpole Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (; 26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745), known between 1725 and 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British Whigs (British political party), Whig statesman who is generally regarded as the ''de facto'' first Prim ...

. Benjamin Collins took over the publication of the Journal after his brother's death. In the 19th century, it was known as the ''Salisbury and Winchester Journal''. The Beinecke Library of

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owns an almost unbroken run of the Journal, from No. 1, 27 November 1736 to the end of the eighteenth century. The run of the Journal in the

British Newspaper Archive The British Newspaper Archive website provides access to searchable digitized archives of British and Irish newspapers. It was launched in November 2011. History The British Library's Newspapers section was based in Colindale in north London ...

begins in 1762. The newspaper is now part of the

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publishing company. It contains, among other things, local news, local sport reports, cars for sale, assorted classified advertisements and government and utility notices. It is published weekly on a Thursday.

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