It was very early on Monday, May 4, 1896, when Alfred Harmsworth’s brainchild went to press, and for the aspiring young newspaper magnate it was a moment to remember. Barely into his thirties, the future Lord Northcliffe was one of the blazing meteors of the late Victorian age. Nothing had been left to chance, and his journalists had already produced more than 60 dummy editions. And with costs already reaching the equivalent of tens of millions of pounds today, the stakes could hardly have been higher. But when, at just after one in the morning, the world’s first copy of

Source: Daily Mail August 06, 2022 23:19 UTC