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"Reynolds's Weekly Newspaper" was founded by the radical journalist George William MacArthur Reynolds in May 1850. It soon became a very successful Sunday newspaper, especially in the North of England, with a radical working class approach combined with sensationalism. The Reynolds family retained the paper until 1894, when, under proprietor Sir Henry Dalziel and editor William Thompson, "Reynolds's Newspaper" became the Sunday paper that reflect the Liberal Party's views. In 1925, the paper's change of name to "Reynold's Illustrated News" reflected the growing importance of pictorial content in news coverage.
The paper was later acquired by the National Co-operative Press on behalf of the Labour Party, becoming the Sunday voice of opposition as "Reynolds News and Sunday Citizen". It ceased publication in 1967, by which time it was known as "Sunday Citizen".
The University of Bradford received its complete set from the Co-operative Society in Manchester through the offices of the then Chancellor of the University and Prime Minister, Harold Wilson. The set forms a very valuable resource for political and social historicans, offering a popular, working class view of events, while the wide range of regional editions held offer further interesting local perspectives. Unfortunately, the paper in our set is very brittle, so the volumes must be treated with the utmost care and cannot be photocopied.
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