The ''Leeds Times'' was a weekly newspaper established in 1833, and published at the office in

Briggate, Leeds Briggate is a pedestrianised principal shopping street in Leeds city centre, England. Historically it was the main street, leading north from Leeds Bridge, and housed markets, merchant's houses and other business premises. It contains many hi ...

West Yorkshire West Yorkshire is a metropolitan and ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and Humber Region of England. It is an inland and upland county having eastward-draining valleys while taking in the moors of the Pennines. West Yorkshire came into exi ...

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. It ceased publication on 30 March 1901, with

Robert Nicoll Robert Nicoll (7 January 1814 – 7 December 1837) was a Scottish poet and lyricist whose life, although short, left a lasting impact. Life Robert was born at the farm of Little Tullybeltane, in the parish of Auchtergaven, Perthshire. When ...

as one of its first editors, and

Samuel Smiles Samuel Smiles (23 December 1812 – 16 April 1904) was a British author and government reformer. Although he campaigned on a Chartist platform, he promoted the idea that more progress would come from new attitudes than from new laws. His prim ...

as its editor from 1839 to 1848.R. J. Morris ''The Historical Journal'', Vol. 24, No. 1 (March 1981), pp. 89-109 Samuel Smiles and the Genesis of Self-Help; the Retreat to a Petit Bourgeois Utopia

History

The first issue of ''Leeds Times'' was on Thursday 7 March 1833, the last issue was 30 March 1901.

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