Sunday newspaper
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A Sunday newspaper is a current affairs publication issued on Sundays. In the United Kingdom, eleven Sunday-only weekly newspapers are distributed nationally. Many daily newspapers, traditionally publishing only from Monday to Saturday, now have Sunday editions, usually with a related name (e.g. The Times and The Sunday Times), that are editorially distinct.
History
[edit]The first Sunday paper was Elizabeth Johnson's British Gazette and Sunday Monitor,[1] which launched in 1779 and ceased publication on 22 September 1805.[2] It contained a summary of the week's news and a religious column.[1]
The Observer was first published on 4 December 1791.
By the 1930s, "almost everyone" in the British population read a newspaper on Sundays.[3]
The Mail on Sunday launched in 1982. The Independent on Sunday launched in 1990.
References
[edit]- 1 2 Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things. Reader's Digest. 27 November 2009. p. 160. ISBN 978-0276445699.
- ↑ "E. Johnson's British gazette and Sunday monitor". Library of Congress. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
- ↑ Bingham, Adrian (May 2005). "Monitoring the popular press: an historical perspective". History & Policy. United Kingdom. Archived from the original on 7 August 2011. Retrieved 9 December 2010.