The Daily Mail version of how the Manchester Guardian was formed

[Colemans Left Hook]

it just so happens yours truly is doing some work on a late 18th century early 19th bluestocking  so the year 1836 was of interest although just out of the period.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8443501/GUY-WALTERS-woke-Guardian-newspaper-founded-fortune-linked-cotton.html

"When it comes to this country’s historic links to the slave trade, The Guardian has provided unrivalled breadth of coverage, often devoting several pages an edition to the subject."

"For when The Manchester Guardian was founded in 1821 by cotton merchant John Edward Taylor and his friends, they did so with money inextricably linked to the brutal treatment of enslaved black men and women who had been transported from West Africa to work themselves to death on American plantations.

Taylor was a partner in a firm called Shuttleworth, Taylor & Co, which was listed in the Commercial Directory of 1818 under the section headed ‘Cotton, Twist, and Weft Dealers’."

Then there is the troubling question of Taylor’s views. Under his aegis, The Guardian was hardly the beacon of liberalism it is today. So far to the Right did Taylor’s editorial line soon drift that he earned the opprobrium of his fellow Little Circle members.

The Guardian sided with the mill owners rather than the men, women and children toiling in often terrible conditions, and the paper was denounced as the ‘cotton lords’ Bible’ by factory reformer Richard Oastler.

The campaigner, who loathed the owners, called upon the ‘little girls and boys’ who worked in the mills to destroy machinery in ‘self-defence’ – a stance which enraged Taylor.


.........  Taylor passed away in 1844, but The Guardian’s association with illiberal causes did not die with him. That same year it demanded that striking Lancashire cotton workers should return to work.

Two decades later, The Guardian sided with the slave-owning Southern states, the Confederacy, against Abraham Lincoln and the North in the American Civil War. The paper loathed Lincoln and made no secret of it.

you can read the rest yourselves on the link above
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian

[wilts rover]

Looking forward to how your research links into Peterloo, anti-radicalism propoganda and efforts by the exisiting establisment to keep alternative voices out of public discourse CDH. Meanwhile:

[redwine]

The title on that png looks so like "the Daily Heil"

[BillyStubbsTears]

Are we talking about THIS Lord Rothermere?

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/12/6/1323183795982/Rothrmere.Hitler.jpg?width=300&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s=04bb3a7bf6ef283a31388b0c59be6322

(If you're struggling, he's the one on the left...)

The one who wrote this after Hitler had 100 left wing opponents murdered in the Night of the Long Knives?

"Herr Adolf Hitler, the German Chancellor, has saved his country".