Topic summary
The Sunday Express
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Daily Express.
History
The Daily Express was founded in 1900 by Sir Arthur Pearson, with the first issue appearing on 24 April 1900. Pearson lost his sight to glaucoma in 1913, and sold the title in 1916 to Max Aitken, MP for Ashton-under-Lyne and the future Lord Beaverbrook. The Daily Express was one of the first papers to place news instead of advertisements on its front page, and also carried gossip, sport, and women's features. Aitken and his family moved to London in 1910 where he was knighted in 1911 and became a peer in 1916. As the recently titled Lord Beaverbrook, he launched the Sunday Express in 1919, sister paper to the Daily Express. It was also the first newspaper in Britain to have a crossword puzzle, introduced in 1924, while the Sunday Express was the first sunday newspaper to include one.