Description: A complete edition of "The Illustrated London News" the world's first illustrated weekly newspaper dated March 23, 1872. This popular London magazine was published from 1842 until 2003 - see history below The illustrations are as follows: "The Oxford and Cambridge Boat-Race: "An Old Varsity Oar" - cover page "The Late Joseph Mazzini" "Floating of the Twin-Screw Ram "Rupert"" - see below "The Sumatra Rhinoceros ..." "The Channel Squadron in Vigo Bay, Spain" "The Oxford and Cambridge Universities Boat-Race : Hammersmith Bridge on a Race Day" - double page "The Oxford and Cambridge Boat-Race : A Metropolitan Railway Station on Race-Day" "Nuremberg" "The Oxford and Cambridge Boat-Race :Views on the River" "Peabody Square Model Dwellings, Blackfriars Road" - see below Illustrations are explained in the text. Good condition - see scans . The magazine has been bound and disbound 15 pages, 30 sides. Page size 11 x 15.5 inches. A great and interesting resource for the historian The Illustrated London News23 languagesArticleTalkReadEditView historyToolsFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe Illustrated London NewsFront-page of the magazine's first issue (May 14, 1842)TypeWeekly (1842–1971) Monthly (1971–1989) Quarterly (1989–1994) Twice-yearly (1994–2003)FormatBroadsheet newsmagazineOwner(s)Illustrated London News GroupFounded1842Political alignmentConservativeCeased publication2003HeadquartersLondon, EnglandWebsitewww.iln.co.ukThe Illustrated London News, founded by Herbert Ingram and first published on Saturday 14 May 1842, was the world's first illustrated weekly news magazine.[1] The magazine was published weekly for most of its existence, switched to a less frequent publication schedule in 1971, and eventually ceased publication in 2003. The company continues today as Illustrated London News Ltd, a publishing, content, and digital agency in London, which holds the publication and business archives of the magazine.History1842–1860: Herbert IngramFront cover of 1 October 1892 issue, showing a scene from Sydney Grundyand Arthur Sullivan's Haddon Hallcreated by M. Browne and Herbert RailtonThe Illustrated London News founder Herbert Ingram was born in Boston, Lincolnshire, in 1811, and opened a printing, newsagent, and bookselling business in Nottingham around 1834 in partnership with his brother-in-law, Nathaniel Cooke.[2] As a newsagent, Ingram was struck by the reliable increase in newspaper sales when they featured pictures and shocking stories. Ingram began to plan a weekly newspaper that would contain pictures in every edition.[3]Ingram rented an office, recruited artists and reporters, and employed as his editor Frederick William Naylor Bayley (1808–1853), formerly editor of the National Omnibus. The first issue of The Illustrated London News appeared on Saturday, 14 May 1842, timed to report on the young Queen Victoria's first masquerade ball.[4] Its 16 pages and 32 wood engravings covered topics such as the war in Afghanistan, the Versailles rail accident, a survey of the candidates for the US presidential election, extensive crime reports, theatre and book reviews, and a list of births, marriages, and deaths. Ingram hired 200 men to carry placards through the streets of London promoting the first edition of his new newspaper.[5]Jumbo's Journey to the Docks (The Illustrated London News, 1 April 1882)Costing sixpence, the first issue sold 26,000 copies. Despite this initial success, sales of the second and subsequent editions were disappointing. However, Ingram was determined to make his newspaper a success, and sent every clergyman in the country a copy of the edition that contained illustrations of the installation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and by this means secured a great many new subscribers.Its circulation soon increased to 40,000, and by the end of its first year was 60,000. In 1851, after the newspaper published Joseph Paxton's designs for the Crystal Palace before even Prince Albert had seen them, the circulation rose to 130,000. In 1852, when it produced a special edition covering the funeral of the Duke of Wellington, sales increased to 150,000; and in 1855, mainly due to the newspaper reproducing some of Roger Fenton's pioneering photographs of the Crimean War (and also due to the abolition of the Stamp Act that taxed newspapers), it sold 200,000 copies per week.[5]Competitors soon began to appear; Lloyd's Illustrated Paper was founded later that year, while Reynold's Newspaper opened in 1850; both were successful Victorian publications, albeit less successful than The Illustrated London News.[6] Andrew Spottiswoode's Pictorial Times lost £20,000 before it was sold to Ingram by Henry Vizetelly, who had left the ILN to found it.[7] Ingram folded it into another purchase, The Lady's Newspaper, which became The Lady's Newspaper and Pictorial Times. Vizetelly was also behind a later competitor, Illustrated Times in 1855, which was similarly bought out by Ingram in 1859.[citation needed]Ingram's other early collaborators left the business in the 1850s. Nathanial Cooke, his business partner and brother-in-law, found himself in a subordinate role in the business and parted on bad terms around 1854. The departure of William Little was in 1858; in addition to providing a loan of £10,000, he was the printer and publisher of the paper for 15 years. Little's relationship with Ingram deteriorated over Ingram's harassment of their mutual sister-in-law.[2]Herbert Ingram died on 8 September 1860 in a paddle-steamer accident on Lake Michigan, and he was succeeded as proprietor by his youngest son, William Ingram, who in turn was succeeded by his son, Sir Bruce Ingram (1877–1963) in 1900, who remained as editor until his death. [Victorian Web Home —> Visual Arts —> Architecture —> London —> Housing for rich and poor —> Next] Part of the Peabody estate Lawrence Street, 1870. Part of the Peabody estate Lawrence Street, 1870. Built to the original Italianate design of Henry Astley Darbishire, architect to the Peabody Trust 1864-1885. Photograph and text Jacqueline Banerjee. [You may use these images without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the photographer and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite the Victorian Web in a print one.]This housing was for the deserving poor, rather than the actually down-and-out: "Someone in steady, albeit humble, employment, who could pay his rent regularly, was the ideal tenant" (Picard 58). The rules were strict, especially with regard to the prevention of disease:No application for rooms will be entertained unless every member of the applicant's family has been vaccinated ... and [the applicant] further agrees to have every case of infectious disease removed to the proper hospital ... the passages, steps, closets and lavatory windows must be washed every Saturday and swept every morning before 10 o'clock. This must be done by the tenants in turn. Washing must only be done in the laundry ... Tenants are required to report to the superintendent any births, deaths or infectious disease occurring in their rooms. Any tenant not complying with this rule will receive notice to quit. [quoted by Picard 59]Nicholas Bentley describes the "generosity of George Peabody, an American businessman who had established a business in London in 1837. Over a period of four years Peabody gave what was then the astionishing sum of �350,000 'To ameliorate the condition of the poor . . . and to promote their comfort and happiness' by the erection of model tenements. In London a number of these tenements, known as Peabody Buildings, still serve their original purpose of housing working-class families" (72). HMS Rupert (1872)4 languagesArticleTalkReadEditView historyToolsFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaFor other ships with the same name, see HMS Rupert.Rupert circa. 1890HistoryUnited KingdomNameHMS RupertBuilderChatham DockyardLaid down6 June 1870Launched12 March 1872Completed1 July 1874FateBroken up, 1907General characteristicsTypeturret ram battleshipDisplacement5,440 long tons (5,527 t)Length250 ft (76 m)Beam53 ft (16 m)Draught22 ft 6 in (6.86 m)PropulsionTwo-shaft Napier4,630 ihp (3,453 kW)Speed13.6 knots (15.7 mph; 25.2 km/h)Complement217Armament1874 :Armoured ram2 × 10-inch (254 mm) 18 ton rifled muzzle-loading guns2 × 64-pounder smoothbore1887 :Armoured ram2 × 10 in (250 mm) 18 ton muzzle-loading rifles2 × BL 6-inch (152.4 mm) gun12 smaller guns4 × torpedo tubes1892 :2 × BL 9.2-inch (233.7 mm) gun2 × BL 6-inch (152.4 mm) gun4 × QF 6-pounder guns8 smaller guns4 × torpedo tubesArmourBelt: 11 in (280 mm) tapering to 9 in (230 mm)Breastwork: 12 in (300 mm)Turret: 14 in (360 mm) face, 12 in (300 mm) sidesConning tower: 12 in (300 mm)Deck: 3 in (76 mm) tapering to 2 in (51 mm)HMS Rupert was a battleship of the Victorian Royal Navy, whose principal weapon was designed to be her ram.DesignRight elevation and plan as depicted in Brassey's Naval Annual 1888She was similar in design to HMS Hotspur, but unlike her carried a revolving turret similar to that carried in HMS Glatton. For reasons not recorded, it would appear that the belief prevalent at the time of the design of Hotspur that a ramming attack would damage the turret mechanism no longer held sway when Rupert was proposed.As was Hotspur, she was designed at a time, shortly after the 1866 battle of Lissa, when it was believed that ramming attacks would, in the event of naval conflict, be the most effective form of offensive action. Artillery power was therefore given second priority to handiness and to frontal armour, including a prolongation of the belt armour to reinforce the ram. She carried two guns in her single turret, as against the single piece in Hotspur, but there was no intention or expectation of achieving all-round fire. The guns would bear from the bow to just abaft the beam on either side, except for the obstruction of the foremast and associated shrouds.The ship was fitted with a fore-and-aft rig on her two masts, which had been designed to allow progress in the event of engine failure. Her sail effort was, however, described by her first Captain as "not worth the inconvenience of keeping them up".As the ram had only been seen to be effective against stationary targets, as at the battle of Lissa, and against friendly ships in the course of accidental collision, the high reputation it enjoyed is not wholly understandable. A report by Capt. W.E. Gordon, submitted to the Board of Admiralty in February 1878 and referring to Rupert says: "she is a comparatively simple weapon within the capacity of an ordinary man to make the best use of, whereas the Captain of the Alexandra or Temeraire in action would be like a man armed with sword, rapier, rifle and pistol, trying to use them all at the same time. No man's faculties are equal to making the best use of such complicated machines." The unattributed comments to this report include the phrase "good in theory but not practicable supposing enemy has 14–15 knots and Rupert 11-12".Unlike every other battleship, Rupert did not have a centre-line conning tower. Uniquely, she possessed two armoured pilot towers, one on either side just abaft the waist. These gave a good view on the beam, but very limited view over the bow, and her first captain described them as "almost useless".Service historyFloating of the Twin-Screw Ram Rupert at ChathamShe was commissioned at Devonport Dockyard for the Mediterranean, and served there from 1876 to 1880. She was thereafter held in reserve at Portsmouth until being assigned to service in the Particular Service Squadronduring the Russian war scare of April to August; 1885. She was then assigned as guard ship at Hull until 1890. After reconstruction and re-armament between 1891 and 1893 she was guardship at Pembroke until 1895. She was port guard ship at Gibraltar from 1895, then at Port Said until late April 1902, when she returned home.[1] Commander Algernon B Granville Grenfell was appointed in command in May 1898. She arrived at Plymouth in early May 1902,[2]and paid off at Devonport on 28 May.[3] She was in Fleet Reserve until 1904, from when she served finally as guard ship at Bermuda[4] until her sale there in 1907.
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