Press Barons 1914-1936

Question 1

1896

Answer 1

Alfred Harmsworth, later Lord Northcliffe, publishes first edition of the Daily Mail

Question 2

1900

Answer 2

Aurther Pearson launches the Daily Express

Question 3

1904

Answer 3

Daily Mirror rebounded as first national daily newspaper to use photographs regularly

Question 4

1908

Answer 4

Harmsworth purchases the times

Question 5

1914

Answer 5

Defence of the Realm Act: introduces censorship for the duration of the First World War
The Daily Herald, under George Lansbury since 1913, takes anti-war, pro-conscientious objector, stand

Question 6

1911

Answer 6

Launch of the Daily Herald
Replaced by the sun in 1964

Question 7

1915

Answer 7

Daily Mail accuses government of mismanagement during the shell crisis

Question 8

1916

Answer 8

Daily Mail takes a strange against conscription
Beaverbrook, with a secret controlling interest in the Daily Express, uses the newspaper to undermine Asquith and support Lloyd George as prime minister

Question 9

1917

Answer 9

Daily Herald supports Bolshevik Revolution in Russia

Question 10

1920

Answer 10

Kamenev telegram discredits Daily Herald

Question 11

1922

Answer 11

Northcliffe dies, press empire is bought by brother, rotheremere
Lansbury loses proprietorial and editorial control of the Daily Herald

Question 12

1924

Answer 12

Daily Mail prints the ‘Zinoviev Telegram’ damaging Labour Party’s reputation four days before a general election

Question 13

1928-1929

Answer 13

Newspaper circulation war: Rothermere takes on the Berry Brothers press for provincial newspaper sales

Question 14

1931

Answer 14

Rothermere’s clash with Baldwin; Rothermere’s support for Moseley and the BUF

Question 15

1936

Answer 15

Abdication crisis: Edward VIII quits throne in order to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson
Daily sales of national newspaper climb towards ten million, those provincial newspapers fall towards 28 million form a high of 41 million in 1921