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Norfolk News

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Norfolk News
TypeWeekly newspaper
Founder(s)Richard Steele[1]
FoundedJanuary, 1845
Ceased publication1961

The Norfolk News was a regional weekly newspaper, published every Saturday, in Exchange Street, Norwich, England.[2]

History

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The publication was founded in January, 1845, and ceased publication in 1961. The area it covered was the whole of Norfolk. Copies of the paper for most of its 116 years are held at the Local History Library in Norwich.[3]

Notable editors of the paper include Edmund Rogers (1848–1870).

References

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  1. ^ Sir Richard Steele (1897). Selections from the Works of Sir Richard Steele. Ginn. pp. 14–.
  2. ^ William White (1845). History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk, and the City and County of the City of Norwich: Comprising, Under a Lucid Arrangement of Subjects, a General Survey of the County of Norfolk, and the Diocese of Norwich; with Separate Historical, Statistical, & Topographical Descriptions of All the Hundreds, Liberties, Unions, Boroughs, Towns, Ports ... author. pp. 816–.
  3. ^ GENUKI: Norfolk: Genealogy: Newspapers
  1. Vox populi: the Norfolk newspaper press, 1760-1900 by R. Stedman (Library Association Thesis, London, 1971) ISBN 0-900592-58-3
  2. The Norwich Post: its contemporaries and successors by E. Fowler and M. Payne (Norfolk News Company, Norwich, 1951)