Visit Britain's Oldest Collection of Newspaper Archive | |||
See some fascinating history on March 22nd - visits must be booked
The News International Archive is the largest and oldest established collection in the British newspaper industry and holds material relating to The Times, The Sunday Times, the Times Supplements, The Sun, News of the World, Today and other past titles. The Times is the oldest national daily newspaper in publication today.
The archive has been in formally constituted since the 1930s though we have a letter in The Times' archive from 1899 which refers to the "office archives". The archive includes correspondence from politicians (Churchill, Stalin), authors (Dickens, Wilde, Hardy), social reformers and explorers (Nightingale, Shackleton, Hunt) as well as some of our famous staff such as Ian Fleming, Graham Greene, Kim Philby and William Howard Russell. We also hold a varied collection of artefacts and advertising posters. March 22nd
AfL visits are open to members (£5.00) and non-members (£8.00). To book your place please contact, Lucy Shepherd visits@archivesforlondon.org (Basement Flat, 42 Danbury Street, London, N1 8JU). The visit starts at 2pm. Address: 5 Thomas More Square, London, E98 1ES March 7th 2012 |