‘It’s Thrilling’ Nearly 300 years of pioneering newspaper go online (The Guardian, June 2025 p. 16) 📰
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Why does the author juxtapose the arrest of Dick Turpin’s father with cannon fire in St Petersburg and a horse falling into the Thames in the opening paragraph?
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What function does the phrase ‘a vessel of memory’ serve in the sentence describing the digitised archive — ‘It is thrilling... but above all, it’s very readable and enjoyable history’?
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The description of the 1739 Dunluce wedding—‘the bride was so drunk she demanded to go to bed... only to fall and break her nose. She was later spotted in bed with a man who was not the groom’—primarily serves to illustrate what broader claim about early journalism?
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When the author notes that theft was denoted by ‘woodcut prints of the devil’, what implicit assumption underlies this visual convention?
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The observation that the 11 April 1912 Titanic article called the ship ‘the last note of progress in modern shipbuilding’ gains rhetorical force primarily because it:
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The detail that Francis Joy’s death received ‘a single sentence’ while Benjamin Franklin’s obituary was ‘lengthy’—published simultaneously—functions chiefly to underscore what unstated principle governing early newspaper hierarchy?
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The statement that the paper ‘predates the switch to the Gregorian calendar’ and thus the 3 October 1738 edition ‘would have been published on 14 October according to modern dating’ implicitly positions the News Letter as what kind of historical artifact?
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The phrase ‘the genesis of newspapers’—used by Lowry to describe early editions—derives its conceptual weight primarily from what implicit contrast embedded in the passage?
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The observation that the front page of the 16 April 1912 edition carried a White Star Line advert *on the same day* the paper reported ‘The Titanic sunk’ serves primarily to highlight what systemic feature of early 20th-century newspaper production?
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The author’s decision to close the passage with Lowry’s statement—‘It’s very important history, but above all, it’s very readable and enjoyable history’—functions as a deliberate rebuttal to what dominant historiographical assumption?
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