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Issue 9198 of The London Gazette, covering the calendar change in Great Britain.The issue spans the changeover; the date heading reads: "From Tuesday September 1, O.S. to Saturday September 16, N.S. 1752".
1752 runs March to December (corresponding to the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750 changes). 1753 onward run January to December. Missing issues are included marked "missing" The data is meta-data as entered by the digitising project - there are errors: Anomalous years occur and are marked where possible.
The London Gazette claims to be the oldest surviving English newspaper and the oldest continuously published newspaper in the UK, having been first published on 7 November 1665 as The Oxford Gazette. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The claim to being oldest is also made by the Stamford Mercury (1712) and Berrow's Worcester Journal (1690).
The Calendar (New Style) Act 1750 removed this difficulty by changing the start of the year to 1 January for England and Wales and the colonies. [m] The change applied "after the last day of December 1751". [29] [n] The legal year which began on 25 March 1751 became a short year of 282 days, running from 25 March 1751 to 31 December 1751.
The paper was printed for T. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-Noster Row, London by W. Arnall et al. The Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser was printed by Charles Say until his death in 1775, after which it was printed by his widow, Mary Say. [2] Say published three papers but the Gazateer was the only daily publication. [3]
News pamphlets or books reported the war, often supporting one side or the other. A number of publications arose after the Restoration, including The London Gazette (first published on 18 November 1665 as the Oxford Gazette), [4] the first official journal of record and the newspaper of the Crown.
This list of newspapers in London is divided into papers sold throughout the region and local publications. It is further divided into paid for and free titles. The newspaper industry in England is dominated by national newspapers, all of which are edited in London, although The Guardian began as the Manchester Guardian.
After service in the First World War, Gell returned to legal practice as a solicitor, being noted as "Mr. William Charles Coleman Gell, Solicitor, of 36, Waterloo Street, Birmingham,(a member of the firm of Johnson and Co., of the same place, Solicitors)" in the London Gazette in 1922. [13] He continued to serve in the Territorial Army.