We are planning to produce at least 75 information panels, typically of 700 words or so with two pictures on each panel. Each panel will be linked with a QR code to a parallel sister page on the www.fleetstreetheritage,com website.
The information panels will be in 3 broad groups. The draft list of subjects is shown below. Panels finished or under active development are starred *.
We are asking current newspapers to produce their own text together with a scan of their original masthead and a small section from the first page of the first issue.
Group 1 – General
Fleet Street in 1500s*
Points of interest/Map*
List of newspapers*
No 62 Fleet Street*
Freedom of the Press
Fleet Street in 1600s
Fleet Street in 1700s
Fleet Street in 1800s
Fleet Street in 1900s
Fleet Street today
Clockmaking industry
Thomas Tompion
Magpie Alley
St Dunstan’s Church
Temple Church
St Bride’s Church
etc.
Gp 2 – Defunct newspaper titles
The Republican*
Pall Mall Gazette*
Morning Post
Daily Courant
News Chronicle
Daily Herald
Morning Chronicle
Daily Post
Black Dwarf
Poor Man’s Guardian
Reynolds News
Saturday Review
Empire News
Workers Dreadnought
Children’s Newspaper
Daily Worker
etc.
Group 3 – Current newspaper titles
Daily Telegraph*
The Times *
Sunday Times*
Sun*
Daily Herald*
Guardian
Observer
Evening Standard
Financial Times
Daily Mail
Daily Express
Daily Mirror
Sunday Express
Sunday Mirror
Sunday Telegraph
Morning Star
Metro etc.
The information panels will be made available to local organisations who wish to stage exhibitions. We hope that we will also be able to find local sites for displaying these panels on a long-term basis, and have made some progress with this.
We are now hoping to find some people who would be willing to write some of these articles. Authors would be given an honorarium, and the author’s name would appear on the finished article. If you, or anyone you know, might be interested in working with us on this project, please send an email to piersnic@gmail.com
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