• First issue of the Daily Courant (11-3-1702)

    From Ross Clark@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 11 23:03:33 2024
    England's first daily newspaper.

    Published by Elizabeth Mallet, printer and bookseller, "next Door to the King's-Arms Tavern at Fleet-Bridge".

    It was a single sheet, the front filled with news items from foreign
    papers (Holland, France), and the back with advertisements.

    E.Mallet concealed her gender in her one editorial comment, which stated
    that she would thereafter make no comments on the foreign news stories, "supposing other People to have Sense enough to make Reflections for themselves".

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Courant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Mallet

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