Leeds Intelligencer

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[6] 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]

References

  1. ^ Price, A. C. (1909). Leeds and its Neighbourhood. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 282–284.
  2. ^ Rayner, S. (February 1874). "The printing press of Yorkshire". Yorkshire Magazine. 2. Bradford: Yorkshire Literary Union: 336. OCLC 47188258.
  3. ^ "Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer in British Newspaper Archive". Retrieved 6 December 2022 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ^ Caunce, Stephen (1993). "Yorkshire Post Newspapers Ltd: Perseverance rewarded". In Chartres, John; Honeyman, Katrina (eds.). Leeds City Business. Leeds University Press. pp. 24–56. ISBN 0-85316-157-7.
  5. ^ a b Brake, Laurel; Demoor, Marysa, eds. (2009). Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland. Gent: Academia Press. p. 353. ISBN 9789038213408.
  6. ^ a b "1854: The Leeds Intelligencer". The Yorkshire Post. 2 July 2004. Retrieved 26 September 2017.

Further reading

  • Caunce, Stephen (1993). "Yorkshire Post Newspapers Ltd: Perseverance rewarded". In Chartres, John; Honeyman, Katrina (eds.). Leeds City Business. Leeds University Press. pp. 24–56. ISBN 0-85316-157-7.
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