Beth Gaskell

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Lead Curator, News & Moving Image at the British Library. Researcher of press history, military-media relations, and social and literary history in the long 19th century. Views all my own.

Masthead of The South London Times and Lambeth Observer, which includes images of local landmarks. This was from issue 437, for Saturday 4th February 1865. The paper was priced at one penny.
Masthead for the Northern Daily Times using elaborate font. It represents issue one, from 24th September 1853, and the newspaper was proved 3 pence.
Masthead for High Life in London for issue one, Sunday, 23rd December 1827. It was priced seven pence. The masthead has lots of illustrations, showing high society, including a central motif of a man being knighted, and one either side showing people gossiping.
Masthead for The Standard of Freedom, which is presented as a ribbon curled around its moto. Its moto is: Political, Commercial and Religious Freedom, which appears on a banner in the middle of the title. This is volume one, issue one, for Saturday, July 1st, 1848 and was priced at four pence halfpenny.
Four versions of Masthead for Bell’s Penny Dispatch. They use different fonts, layouts, and different subtitles.
Masthead for the New Court Gazette featuring a stylised version of the UK coat of arms, with a lion and a unicorn. This is for the Saturday, 11th January 1840 issue, and was priced at 8 pence.
Masthead for The Court Gazette:and Fashionable Guide, featuring a coat of arms with a lion and a unicorn. This was volume one, issue one, for Saturday 7th April 1838, and was priced at six pence.
Masthead for the City of London Trade Protection Circular, that features the City of London coat of arms. It was for volume one, issue one, Saturday 15th April 1848.
Masthead for the Bee-Hive, featuring an image of a beehive and representations of various trades and industry.
Highly illustrated masthead for Illustrated London Life. It’s issue number 2, March 18th 1843 and was priced at three pence.
Masthead for The Weekly Chronicle. This is issue 958, for Saturday 6th January 1855, and is priced at six pence.
Masthead for the True Sun
Masthead for The Censor; or Satirical Times. This is issue number one, Saturday, January 4th, 1846. It was priced at seven pence.
Image of the Newspaper File Department at T.B Browne’s Advertising Office. It shows numerous shelves piled with newspapers, and various men reading and sorting them.
Masthead for the Town and Country Daily Newspaper. It shows issue one, from Monday July 14, 1873.
Masthead for the Hackney & Kingsland Times: And North-East London Telegraph. This was issue number one in the new series, after it was renamed. It is from 19th April 1862. It was proved one penny.
Newspaper masthead for The Correspondent and Public Cause. This is issue number one, for 5th October 1814, and was priced at eight pence.
Masthead of The Public Cause. Its subtitle was “The cause for which Hampden bled in the Field, and Sidney died in the Scaffold!” This was issue number three for Wednesday, October 16th 1811, and was priced at nine and a half pence.
Masthead for the Nonconformist Elector. This is issue number one, Friday 9th July 1847, and is priced at 3 pence.
Masthead for The Borough of Greenwich Free Press: And Kent and Surrey Commercial Advertiser. This is issue number one, Saturday August 4th, 1855. It was priced at three and a half pence.
Masthead for the Aurora Borealis. This is issue one, Sunday March 25th 1821, priced at eight and a half pence.
Four different mastheads for the British Neptune, they vary in design, font and level of illustration.
Masthead for the Evening Star. It is for issue one, Monday, 25th July 1842. It was priced at two pence.
Ahead for the Colored News for volume one number one, Saturday, August 4th 1855. It was priced at two pence.
Masthead of the Pen and Pencil: An Illustrated Family Newspaper. The title is given in simple block capitals. This is volume one, number one, for Saturday 10th February 1855. The price was six pence.
Masthead for The City Chronicle: Tea Dealers’ Journal and Commercial Advertiser. This is issue one, for Tuesday, 12th May 1840. It was priced at sixpence. The masthead has the City of London’s coat of arms included.
Masthead for the Liverpool Standard: And General Commercial Advertiser. It was issue number one, for Friday, November 23 2832, priced at seven pence.
Masthead for the Age and Argus. It includes the motto ‘The very Age and Body of Time, it’s Form and Pressure.’ It lists this issue as part of the United Series, Saturday, October 7, 1843. The price was six pence.
The masthead did The Argus: Or, Broad-sheet of The Empire. The image shows volume 3, issue 106, for Sunday 7th February 1841. It was priced at 6 pence.
The Masthead for The Age. It had the subtitle “The very age and body of the time.” It is for issue one, Sunday, May 15, 1825 and is priced at seven pence.
A tabby cat sleeping with her head on a cushion.
The masthead for the Colonist and Weekly Courier. It features a central decoration including a lion, a unicorn, and images of ships travelling. It is for issue 12, Saturday April 18 1824, and the price was 7 pence.
Masthead for The Antigallican Monitor, and Anti-Corsican Chronicle.
Masthead for the Tower Hamlets Mail, issue 1, Saturday 24th October 1857, price one penny.
The masthead of the Fonetic Nuz. It is written the the phonetic alphabet created by Alexander Ellis, who founded the paper to promote his ideas about language. It shows issue one, from Saturday 6th January 1849, price four and a half pence stamped.
Masthead for The St. James’s Chronicle: or, British Evening-Post. Shows price of six pence, the date covering the period from Saturday 31st December 1808 to Tuesday 3rd January 1809, and the issue number of 7967.
A picture of the walking trail The Parkland Walk, a disused railway line in North London. There are trees, a muddy path and a bright blue sky.
The Masthead of The Hour newspaper, features a decorative clock between the two words. It shows the issue number as 113, the date as Friday, 1st August 1873, and the price at one penny.
Very elaborate masthead for the Pictorial Times. It is from issue one, Saturday, March 18th 1843.
A scene from The Muppet Christmas Carol. Gonzo reads to Rossi, directly from the book, while sitting in a tree and holding a lantern.
Image showing the University Challenge end scores for the match between Exeter, who had 35 points, and Bristol who had 290 points.
Masthead for the newspaper The Dissenter. It lists the issue number: number one, the date: 1st January 1812, and the price: nine pence.
Masthead is the Evening Star. The newspaper’s title appears in basic block capitals. The numeration tells us this is issue one, published on Monday 25th July 1842, and it lists the price at two pence.
The masthead for the Railway Bell: Illustrated Advertiser newspaper. It features a large bell with a clock on it and a British flag surrounded by cherubs. It also includes a train, a hot air balloon, an imagined idea of an airplane and a steam ship, and a crowd of people watching all of it. Underneath the masthead it has the issue number 15 in Roman numerals, the date: week ending Saturday, 31st August, and the price: sixpence.
Masthead of the Lady’s Own Paper: News of the Week, Music and the Drama, Fashions, Novelettes &c. Includes lots of images of women reading, sewing, riding, playing croquet, tending the garden, playing piano and watching theatre. It also has issue number 1, the date: Saturday, November 24, 1866, and price: two pence.
A man using a drill to deconstruct some bunkbeds