The news of this month, exactly 150 years ago.
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Each month we find what Britain was reading exactly 150 years before, and set it again as a newspaper of the day: the reports, the weather, the crimes, the shipping and the markets.
And the advertisements, which are the loudest thing on the page, as they were then.
It comes as four pages on two sheets, folded to fit the envelope. Unfold them and they read as a paper.
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Every issue also visits one town or city, through its own local paper of that month: its courts, its markets, its shipping and its shops. No. I goes to Swansea.
With the paper comes a leaflet in our own voice: what was really going on behind the reports, what happened next, and what the paper left out.
Every word comes from British newspapers of the time, long out of copyright. We keep the spelling, the prices and the typography of the day, and we don’t invent the news.
The first issue carries the news of December 1876. It posts in the last week of November 2026, so it arrives as December begins. After that, one a month, always 150 years behind.
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The news, 150 years late, through their letterbox.
For anyone who loves history, old newspapers or a good Victorian scandal: a paper of the day, every month.
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Give as many months as you like. When you want the gift to end, cancel in Manage your subscription. No more payments are taken, and they still get any issue you’ve paid for.
For Christmas: subscribe by 20 November and their first paper is No. I, December 1876, posted in the last week of November. Subscribe by 20 December and their first is No. II, January 1877, posted in the week after Christmas.
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