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TITBITS UK MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 24 – 30 1977 RONALD BIGGSKATE O’MARA : ERIC MORECAMBE :… and much more …Enlarge Image for better viewPlease contact us if you have problems with the checkout process
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TITBITSCELEBRITIES : GLAMOUR :Tit-Bits from all the interesting Books, Periodicals, and Newspapers of the World, more commonly known as Tit-Bits, was a British weekly magazine founded by an early father of popular journalism George Newnes on 22 October 1881.[1] It came as a direct response to the Elementary Education Act 1870 which made education compulsory for children and hence produced a new young generation able to read.[2][not in citation given] The magazine’s headquarters moved from Manchester to London[3] where it paved the way for popular journalism — most significantly, the Daily Mail was founded by Alfred Harmsworth, a contributor to Tit-Bits, and the Daily Express was launched by Arthur Pearson, who worked at Tit-Bits for five years after winning a competition to get a job on the magazine.[4] From the outset, the magazine was a mass-circulation commercial publication on cheap newsprint which soon reached sales of between 400,000 and 600,000. Like a mini-encyclopedia it presented a diverse range of tit-bits of information in an easy-to-read format, with the emphasis on human interest stories concentrating on drama and sensation.[5] It also featured short stories and full-length fiction, including works by authors such as Rider Haggard and Isaac Asimov, plus three very early stories by Christopher Priest. The first humorous article by P. G. Wodehouse, “Men Who Missed Their Own Weddings”, appeared in Tit-Bits in November 1900.[6] During the first world war Ivor Novello won a Titbits competition to write a song soldiers could sing at the front: he penned Keep the Home Fires Burning.[7] Pin-ups appeared on the magazine’s covers from 1939 and by 1955 circulation peaked at 1,150,000. At the beginning of 1973 Tit-Bits lost the hyphen from its masthead. In 1979 Reveille (a weekly tabloid with a virtually identical demographic) was merged into Titbits, and the magazine was briefly rebranded as Titbits incorporating Reveille. This however was dropped in July 1981. On 18 July 1984,[7] under its last editor Paul Hopkins, Titbits was selling only 170,000 copies and was taken over by Associated Newspapers’ Weekend. At the time, the Financial Times described Titbits as “the 103-year-old progenitor of Britain’s popular press”[7]. Weekend itself closed in 1989. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSupplements / Free Gifts ( when applicable ) are NOT included unless statedVintage and Modern Birthday Issues Tilleys Sheffield |
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