First Issue of The Times Published: London Gets Its Paper of Record
A newspaper born in a London print shop, with nothing but grit and hot metal type. Walter didn't just start a paper—he was building a machine that would become Britain's most influential daily. The Universal Register would shed its clunky name four years later, becoming simply The Times: a publication that would eventually shape global opinion from its cramped Fleet Street offices. And Walter? Just a ballsy entrepreneur who thought London needed better news, faster.
January 13, 1785
241 years ago
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