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When was the Sheffield Iris created?

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Anonymous

11y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

In 1754, the Sheffield Weekly Journal was a newspaper in Sheffield, England. It supported radical causes such as abolition of slavery and religious reform. It changed names and owners to Sheffield Weekly Register then Sheffield Register in 1787. Joseph Gales had met Thomas Paine and started to print articles praising the French Revolution. The British government tried to arrest Gales but he fled to Germany and sold the paper to James Montgomery. The name was changed to Sheffield Iris in 1795.

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9y ago

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