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‘Women were grabbed and dragged away like sacks’ – a history of British protest in pictures
06 Jul 2025 05:14 GMT
… their early days, its owner, Alfred Harmsworth, soon felt enough was enough …
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‘There is probably no sport in the world which is so misunderstood’: 75 years of Formula 1 according to the Country Life archive
04 Jul 2025 12:28 GMT
… ;inclement' weather to watch Alfred Harmsworth race a a race at …
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Mercedes-Simplex 60 HP bought by Daily Mail founder Alfred Harmsworth is set to become the most expensive antique car ever sold at auction
13 Feb 2024 21:44 GMT
… 1903 for Daily Mail founder Alfred Harmsworth, is set to break another … been brought to market'.
Alfred Harmsworth, who became the first Viscount …
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Frederick Jackson - the Alcester man who explored the Arctic and Australia
29 Jun 2025 10:13 GMT
… managed to find a patron, Alfred Harmsworth, the owner of the Daily …
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Greatest man who ever strode down Fleet Street: New biography of Daily Mail founder Lord Northcliffe
02 Feb 2023 03:35 GMT
… extraordinary life and achievements of Lord Northcliffe, the founder of the Daily … , however, was that the mercurial Alfred Harmsworth, who later became Baron and … the Royal Geographical Society that Lord Northcliffe launched an Anglo-American bid …
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Death of Lord Northcliffe
15 Aug 2022 05:35 GMT
… 15, 1922
The death of Lord Northcliffe, which we record with deep … great human figure passes away.
Lord Northcliffe’s greatness, and, indeed, his …
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Daily Mail founder Alfred Harmsworth's blistering denunciation of Lord Kitchener
30 Jul 2022 01:38 GMT
… Approaching 50 years old, Alfred Harmsworth, Lord Northcliffe, was at the height … degrading.
Not so for Alfred Harmsworth. It was his … ordinary' himself that Lord Northcliffe had such a deep … !'
Without doubt Alfred Harmsworth was a great man. …
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Lord Northcliffe’s war of words
28 Jul 2022 06:20 GMT
The Chief: The Life of Lord Northcliffe
Andrew Roberts
Simon & Schuster, … a not- so-humble newspaperman, Lord Northcliffe, the pugnacious proprietor of the … imperial ascendancy.
Northcliffe was born Alfred Harmsworth into a large, initially modest …
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The Big Hop by David Rooney: How the Mail got Atlantic air travel off the ground
13 Jun 2025 03:38 GMT
… ,000 from the Daily Mail. Alfred Harmsworth – Lord Northcliffe, the energetic founder and proprietor …
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Cramps, frostbite and £10,000 at stake — the first ever long-haul flight
13 Jun 2025 22:35 GMT
… the idea of its proprietor, Lord Northcliffe, who was worried that the …