Biography of John Walter IIJohn Walter II was born on February 23, 1776, the second son of John Walter I, the founder of The Times, and Frances Walter. He was educated at Merchant Taylors’ School and Trinity College, Oxford, which he entered in 1795 apparently destined for holy orders. However, in 1797 his…
When the Clocks stopped at Printing House SquareThe sirens sounded around Printing House Square, the home of The Times, at 8.22 pm on the evening of Tuesday, September 24, 1940. The paper’s Air Raid Precautions (A.R.P.) officers in the Control Room were later to testify that as the evening…
The war club, the tooth and The TimesDid you know that in 1930 the letters page of The Times played a crucial role in the campaign to return King Thakombau’s war club to Fiji to become the ceremonial mace of the country’s House of Representatives?
Peterloo MassacreIn the depression following the Napoleonic War, the mood of the country was for reform. Thomas Barnes, the recently appointed editor of The Times, deployed reporters across the country to report on local feeling and to cover the political meetings taking place.
The Times and Sir Don BradmanIn the Archive of The Times there is a series of correspondence between Roy Curthoys, the paper’s…
The Times’ Greatest ScoopIn June 1878 representatives of Russia, Great Britain, France, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Germany, the Ottoman Empire, Greece, Serbia, Romania and Montenegro, gathered in Berlin for a congress to determine the boundaries of the states in the Balkan peninsula following the Russo-Turkish…
The Times Woking Mosque archives[caption id=”attachment_2790" align=”aligncenter” width=”590" caption=”An article from The Times archives”][/caption]The people who run the wokingmuslim.org website have been doing sterling work over the years in…
A British Wimbledon Winner79 years ago Frederick John Perry won his third Wimbledon title beating the German Gottfried von Cramm 6–1, 6–1…
