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The heritage of Fleet Street

The Fleet Street Heritage
 Project is aiming to
produce 100 information
pages/webpages about
many aspects of the
heritage of Fleet Street,
including some of the
people, places and ideas
which have contributed to
it’s rich history, and also
 mini-biographies of many
of the current and ancient
 newspapers printed here.

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So far, we have written 40
of these pages,
indicated by underlines
in the links below. Many
of these have been
written by volunteers; if
you would be interested
in writing on any other
subject, whether on our
list or not, please send
us an email 

Volume 1 - General______
Points of interest/Map
List of newspapers and dates
Freedom of the Press 
The River Fleet
The Newspaper Stamp Tax
Fleet Street Heritage Sundial
Fleet Street in the 1500s
Fleet Street at the Reformatio
Fleet Street in the 1600s    ~~
The Great Fire, 1666
Monuments of Fleet Street 
62 Fleet Street
63 & 28 Stonecutter St
85  - the Reuters building  
Magpie Alley
Ashentree Court
Crane Court
St Dunstans-in--the-West
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese
Temple Bar
Cliffords Inn
The Royal Society in Fleet St.
St. Bride Foundation
Richard Carlile
Dr. Johnson
Cobbett, Paine & Fleet Street
William Caslon/Typefounders   

IN PREPARATION__________
Thomas Tompion
St Bride's Church 
Inner Temple
Middle Temple
A Compositor's Work

FUTURE PLANS_______
Fleet Street Quarter
120 - The Express Building
135 - The Telegraph Building
Fleet Street in the 1700s
Fleet Street in the 1800s
Fleet Street in the 1900s
Fleet Street in the 2020s





 
Vol.II - Past Newspapers___
Pall Mall Gazette
Daily Herald
The Republican
Daily Courant
Morning Post
News of the World
Daily News
Daily Chronicle
News Chronicle ~~
Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
Black Dwarf
Reynolds Newspaper
Star
Poor Mans Guardian Manchester Guardian














IN PREPARATION______
Workers Dreadnought





FUTURE PLANS_____
Saturday Review
Morning Chronicle
Saturday Review
Punch
Daily Worker
Illustrated London News
Vol III - Current newspapers
Daily Telegraph
Sunday Times
The Times 
Sun
Financial Times
Daily Mail























IN PREPARATION______
Independent
Daily Express
Evening Standard



FUTURE PLANS
Daily Mirror
Guardian
Observer
Morning Star
Metro 
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