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The ''Birmingham Gazette'', known for much of its existence as ''Aris's Birmingham Gazette'', was a newspaper that was published and circulated in Birmingham, England, from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Founded as a weekly publication in 1741, it moved to daily production in 1862, and was absorbed by the ''
The ''Gazette'' was founded as the ''Birmingham Gazette and General Correspondent'' by Thomas Aris, a stationer from London who had moved to Birmingham in May 1740 and started a bookselling and printing business in the High Street. The first edition was issued on 16 November 1741, just under ten years after the town's first known newspaper, the '' Birmingham Journal''. By 1743 it had absorbed its rival ''Warwick and Staffordshire Gazette'' – which had been founded in London in 1737 and moved to Birmingham in 1741 – and become the town's only newspaper.
Although decried by its rivals as a "Mere register of sales or... broker's guide" due its high number of advertisements,
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Birmingham Post
The ''Birmingham Post'' is a weekly printed newspaper based in Birmingham, England, with a circulation of 2,545 and distribution throughout the West Midlands. First published under the name the ''Birmingham Daily Post'' in 1857, it has had a s ...
'' in 1956.
The newspaper's title was initially ''Birmingham Gazette and General Correspondent'' from 1741; ''Aris's Birmingham Gazette'' by 1743, and continuing until 1862; ''Birmingham Daily Gazette'' from 1862 to 1904; ''Birmingham Gazette & Express'' from 1904 to 1912; and ''Birmingham Gazette'' from 1912 to 1956. In November 1956 the ''Birmingham Gazette'' was absorbed by the ''Birmingham Post''. The merger led to the publication of ''The Birmingham Post & Birmingham Gazette'' which ran until 1964.
History
The ''Gazette'' was founded as the ''Birmingham Gazette and General Correspondent'' by Thomas Aris, a stationer from London who had moved to Birmingham in May 1740 and started a bookselling and printing business in the High Street. The first edition was issued on 16 November 1741, just under ten years after the town's first known newspaper, the '' Birmingham Journal''. By 1743 it had absorbed its rival ''Warwick and Staffordshire Gazette'' – which had been founded in London in 1737 and moved to Birmingham in 1741 – and become the town's only newspaper.
Although decried by its rivals as a "Mere register of sales or... broker's guide" due its high number of advertisements, Asa Briggs
Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs (7 May 1921 – 15 March 2016) was an English historian. He was a leading specialist on the Victorian era, and the foremost historian of broadcasting in Britain. Briggs achieved international recognition during his lon ...
described the eighteenth century ''Gazette'' as "one of the most lucrative and important provincial papers, ranking with the '' Liverpool Mercury'' and the '' Edinburgh Courant''".
Historical copies of the ''Gazette'', dating back to 1741, are available to search and view in digitised form at the British Newspaper Archive
The British Newspaper Archive web site provides access to searchable digitized archives of British and Irish newspapers. It was launched in November 2011.
History
The British Library Newspapers section was based in Colindale in north London, u ...
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Editors
* John Thackray Bunce (1860–1862)References
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