The
Mancheser Guardianfirst appeared as weekly in 1821, becoming a daily in 1855 after the stamp duty on newspapers was lifted. Coming from Manchester it was notably liberal and non-conformist in its stance, the voice of radical progress and political and moral reform, in contrast to the conservative posture of the London
Timesand
Daily Telegraph. The word “Manchester” was dropped from the name in 1959.
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