The first edition of The Guardian came out on this day in 1821.
The Guardian celebrates 200 extraordinary years – The Guardian
To highlight its legacy of bringing facts to light and championing progressive ideas, the Guardian is launching a special 200th birthday brand campaign based around the central idea ‘A work in progress since 1821’.
It goes without saying that it looked very different back then, and was only 7p, but I didn’t realise the front page would just be ads until as late as 1952.
The Guardian’s first ever edition – annotated – The Guardian
Ads on the front page, news on the back, and a frankly unbelievable story about a ghost: the Manchester Guardian’s first edition on 5 May 1821 is full of gems.
Update 14/05/2021
Couldn’t help adding this here.
Typo negative: the best and worst of Grauniad mistakes over 200 years – The Guardian
Sometimes the red pen must take itself to task. In 2007 it blushed: “We misspelled the word misspelled twice, as mispelled, in the Corrections and clarifications column on September 26.”
Could be worse, though.
The most expensive typing error ever? – The Spectator
Nasa’s missing hyphen; the extra ‘s’ that could cost £8.8 million; and recipes for disaster.
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