RECOMMENDED: 100th anniversary - British Gazette / 1926-2026 📰 🇬🇧

„The gazette was a government newspaper devised by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Winston Churchill, who strongly opposed the General Strike. With many printers on strike, newspaper proprietors were able to produce only scaled-down editions and reduced print-runs. The British Gazette aimed to keep citizens informed of the latest news but was also used by the government as propaganda to put forward its views on the strike.” - www.londonmuseum.org.uk

„In the age of the internet we forget that there once was a time when the news was not accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. In those days people relied on the broadcasting services and the newspapers for that steady stream of news. It is, therefore, not surprising that when a 1926 general strike related to coal miners shut down the United Kingdom, the fear of rumors replacing factual news accounts was worrisome to its government. (...) Run without profit (it sold for 1 penny) and entirely at the expense of the government, the paper was published between May 5 and May 13, 1926 and was disbanded when the strike ended after 9 days.
The entire run of the British Gazette can be found in in the Forsch Collection of Winston Churchill material, MS-788." - raunerlibrary.blogspot.com (about holographs, typescripts, photographs, cartoons, & printed matter)

„Complete run of eight issues of The British Gazette (No. 1-8), edited by Winston S. Churchill, each measuring 18.5 x 23.5, May 5-13, 1926. This was the government's anti-strike paper published during the General Strike of 1926; Churchill, a former journalist then serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer, was appointed editor and wrote much of the periodical's material. The Gazette ran to only eight editions before the strike collapsed; the last edition, published May 13th, 1926, had the headline: "General Strike Off." ” - www.bidsquare.com (Lot Description)

„4 pages each (The inner two pages of No. 1 were published blank. The Sunday Gazette is a single-sided broadsheet.)” - www.chartwellbooksellers.com

„One of the first groups of workers called out by the Trades Union Congress when the general strike began on 3 May were the printers, and consequently most national newspapers appeared only in truncated form during the strike. In order to present its point of view, the government decided to produce an official anti-strike newspaper, to be published by His Majesty's Stationery Office.” - Wikipédia

 

Measurements/duration:

H 583 mm, L 470 mm / 18.5 x 23.5

Founded	5 May 1926
Ceased publication	13 May 1926

No. 1 (May 5, 1926) - no. 8 (May 13, 1926)

Circulation:   200,000 to 2 million !!!

 

Illustrations: raunerlibrary.blogspot.com