We thundered out : 200 years of the Times, 1785-1985 / by Philip Howard ; research by Jack Lonsdale

London : Times Books, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Good copy in original gilt-blocked cloth with some wear and tear as with age. Remains well-preserved overall; bright and clean. Physical description; 175 p. ; ill. ; 38 cm. Notes; Ill. on lining papers. Includes index. Contents; Founding father -- In the beginning -- Owner goes to prison -- Revolution in France -- Trafalgar edition -- Old Crabby: first foreign correspondent [Henry Crabb Robinson] -- ""A newspaper should be free"" [John Walter II] -- ""Most powerful man in the country"" [Thomas Barnes] -- Peterloo Massacre [aka Manchester Massacre, 1819] -- Duke and ""The Times"" [Duke of Wellington] -- Great Exhibition [of 1851] -- ""By Jove, I am editor of the Times!"" [John Thadeus Delane] -- Palmerston and The Times [Lord Palmerston] -- Responsible to the people of England -- William Howard Russell in the Crimea -- Indian Mutiny -- American Civil War -- Paris by pigeon and balloon [Franco-Prussian War 1870] -- Blowitz scoops the world [Henri Stefan Opper de Blowitz, Paris correspondent] -- Gordon in Khartoum [Frank Power] -- Parnell: the most spectacular mistake [letters implicating Parnell, leader of the Irish parliamentary group in the Commons, with the Phoenix Park murders of 1882] -- Jack the Ripper: no gruesome detail spared -- Flora Shaw and the Jameson Raid (Boer War, South Africa, 1895) -- Queen Victoria and the ""atrocious Times"" -- ""Our man in Morocco"" [Walter Burton Harris] -- Trying to stop the rot [Moberly Bell] -- Northcliffe to the rescue [Lord Northcliffe] -- Chief in charge -- Great War and the censor [World War I] -- Prime Minister unmade [Herbert Asquith and Lloyd George] -- Votes for women [Women's suffrage] -- ""The Times"" picture page -- Tutankhamun: Fleet Street scooped [Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon 1922] -- General strike: we thunder on [1926] -- Abdication crisis: spokesman or manipulator? [Prince of Wales and Wallis Simpson 1936] -- Appeasement and other errors -- Blitz ""no interference with production"" [World War II] -- Everest scoop [Hillary and Tenzing, 1953] -- Winston Churchill and ""The Times"" -- Hayley: one of the great editors [Sir William Haley] -- News on the front page -- Closure -- Royal events -- Agony column -- Advertising -- Theatre -- Parliament -- Law -- Some of our own correspondents -- Assasinations -- Silly season -- Women -- Invective -- Book reviews -- Letters -- Court page -- Obituaries -- City -- Sport -- Cricket -- Crossword -- Index to The Times -- Index. Subjects; Times, newspaper. Times Newspapers Limited. Times. Times (London, England). Times (London, England) History. Press. Newspapers Great Britain History. Professions/Occupations. Publishers. Great Britain. Newspapers. History. Journalism. Journalists. News flow. Newspapers with London imprints Times The , to 1982. Genres; History. Illustrated.