From the archive: A trip on the new underground
Although some weeks have passed since the Prince of Wales took a twopenny jaunt to Stockwell and declared the new City and South London Railway open, it was only yesterday that the declaration of His ...
World’s oldest Sunday newspaper, the UK’s Observer, sold in face of journalistic opposition
The owner of Britain’s Guardian newspaper has confirmed that it has sold the Observer, the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper to ...
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Chaotic Traffic From Horse-Drawn Carriages Inspired the World’s First Traffic Lights
issue of the Illustrated Times The British Newspaper Archive Even before there were cars, there was treacherous traffic in Westminster, one of London’s most bustling boroughs, teeming with ...
From the archive: Smooth trip into the supersonic era
British Airways and Air France today inaugurated a new era in civil aviation with a simultaneous opening of Concorde supersonic airliner services to Bahrain and Rio de Janeiro. After 13 years of ...
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World’s oldest Sunday newspaper, the UK’s Observer, sold in face of journalistic opposition
LONDON (AP) — The owner of Britain’s Guardian newspaper confirmed Wednesday that ... a former editor of the London Times and director of news at the BBC, and the former U.S. ambassador to ...