Leeds Intelligencer Explained
Leeds Intelligencer Leedes Intelligencer |
Motto: | The Altar, the Throne and the Cottage |
Type: | Weekly |
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Founders: | --> |
Foundation: | 1754 |
Ceased Publication: | 1866 (became Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer) |
Publishing City: | Leeds |
Publishing Country: | England |
Oclc: | 25855905 |
The Leeds Intelligencer, or Leedes Intelligencer, was one of the first regional newspapers in Great Britain. It was founded in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, in 1754[1] and first published on 2 July 1754.[2] It was a weekly paper until it was renamed and became the daily Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, first published on Monday 2 July 1866, until 1883 when the "and Leeds Intelligencer" was dropped from the title.[3] [4] It was published under the motto of The Altar, the Throne and the Cottage and was, from the outset, a conservative newspaper.[5] It dropped the extra 'e' from the name Leedes in 1765 and was recognised as being anti-Catholic and being opposed to Chartism.[5]
In 1865 it was acquired by the Yorkshire Conservative Newspaper Company Limited (now Yorkshire Post Newspapers).[6]
Further reading
- Book: Caunce, Stephen. Leeds City Business. John. Chartres. John Chartres. Katrina. Honeyman. Katrina Honeyman. Leeds University Press. 1993. 24–56. Yorkshire Post Newspapers Ltd: Perseverance rewarded. 0-85316-157-7. https://archive.org/details/leedscitybusines0000unse/page/24.
Notes and References
- Book: Price, A. C. . Leeds and its Neighbourhood . Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1909. 282–284.
- Rayner. S. . The printing press of Yorkshire. Yorkshire Magazine. February 1874. 2 . 336. Yorkshire Literary Union. Bradford. 47188258.
- Web site: Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer in British Newspaper Archive . . 6 December 2022.
- Book: Caunce, Stephen. Leeds City Business. John. Chartres. John Chartres. Katrina. Honeyman. Katrina Honeyman. Leeds University Press. 1993. 24–56. Yorkshire Post Newspapers Ltd: Perseverance rewarded. 0-85316-157-7. https://archive.org/details/leedscitybusines0000unse/page/24.
- Book: Brake. Laurel. Demoor. Marysa. Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland. 2009. Academia Press. Gent. 9789038213408. 353.
- News: 1854: The Leeds Intelligencer. 26 September 2017. The Yorkshire Post. 2 July 2004.