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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Daily Mirror
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Founded in 1903 by Alfred Harmsworth (later Lord *Northcliffe) as a newspaper for women. It almost foundered in this form, but revived when it was rapidly transformed into an illustrated paper. As such it was soon rivalling the circulation of Harmsworth's other popular daily, the *Mail. By the time of World War II the Mirror was the troops' favourite paper (*Jane being no small part of the attraction), and from the landslide 1945 election victory onwards it became the only *tabloid to give consistent support to the Labour party; it was by then the largest circulation daily (an astonishing 7 million copies were sold on the morning of the coronation in 1953).
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*Cassandra was its star columnist and *Vicky its political cartoonist. Since the 1970s its rival in the tabloid market has been the *Sun. A sister paper, the Sunday Pictorial, was renamed the *Sunday Mirror in 1963.
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