Political Register
Political Register was a British political weekly newspaper, which was founded in 1802 by the English writer and radical right - conservative politician William Cobbett ( 1763-1835 ). The newspaper existed until his death in 1835 and was then adjusted.
With the initial investment of his friend and influential politician William Windham (1750-1810) began his newspaper Cobbett. At first Cobbett supported with the newspaper opinion moderate the Tories, the predecessor party of the Conservative Party. Angered by the Prime Minister William Pitt (1759-1806), he then assigned to the Tories, Cobbett finally withdrew the Tories support and was its leaf increasingly dominant and quite radical.
Increased in 1815, the British government, the newspaper tax on four pence a copy and tried so deliberately keep people on lower incomes from reading a newspaper. Cobbett responded with his kind 1816, he addressed with his sheet, the working class, reduced the price per issue of ten penny to two pence, gave his newspaper now out as a pamphlet, thus bypassing the control and increased circulation in just a few weeks to over 40,000 copies. Since the sheet was also passed for reading, the actual daily readership was much higher. With Cobbett's advocacy of the interests of workers Political Register was the voice of the working class and the middle class interested.
The extent to which his newspaper stood out from the established newspapers, shows a quote from Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels - Works - (Marx to Londener Times and Lord Palmerston ): "You need aufzuschlagen only Cobbett 's Political Register, to convince themselves that since beginning of this century the major London newspapers constantly play the role of lawyers for the highest -born leader of the English foreign policy. "
The newspaper Political Register was Cobbett Cobbett and was the Political Register, both was impossible to separate them. Cobbett used the leaf for its purpose like no other. He also led political campaigns, supported individuals, parties, or directions and used it for his radical ideas, which he packed in a strong language and transported across the sheet in the world. For one of his articles, he was again convicted and had it for 2 years in the infamous Newgate Prison Prison.
The Political Register was like Cobbett even appreciated by some and hated by others. But the copious citations of his time show that the Political Register was widely respected.
Cobbett's last article appeared in the Political Register on June 13, 1835. Five days later with his death, the newspaper has been set.
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- Margaret Cole, Makers of the Labour Movement, Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1948.
- Political Register - Spartacus.SchoolNet.co.uk
- William Cobbett - Weekly Political Register - Bartleby.com