Description
The Story of the Daily Herald
By George Lansbury
‘The Daily Herald is now dimly remembered as a forerunner to the disgraceful Sun. But it is not widely known that it began life as a daily strike bulletin when the London print unions struck for a forty-eight hour working week. This blossomed out to cover general news items and even sport, and spread its reach from London to some provincial cities. It died after the strike, but had already whetted the appetite of trade union activists for a move to relaunch it. It set off on an eventful life with a capital of �300 as a co-operative Labour daily, staunchly “unofficial” and rebellious, a veritable hell raiser …
The demise of the Herald, and the rise of the Sun, are sad stories of the afterlife. But this book contains the account of George Lansbury, the Herald’s consistent sponsor and campaigner. It was published in 1925 and has a racy account of the early struggles which established the paper … It should reappear on the bookshelves in its own right because its author was not only a notable contender for all the good causes that distinguished the Labour Movement in the early days of the Twentieth Century, but also a most generous and decent man, well worth remembering in his own words for what were, in large measures, his own deeds.’
Ken Coates from his Foreword to the new edition
Cover ‘Fantasy (Labour Leaders at their Devotions)’
by Will Dyson, Daily Herald, 3 December 1913.
A further 19 illustrations by Will Dyson can be found in
The Miracle of Fleet Street.
Reviews
Bill Hagerty – British Journalism Review
Geoffrey Goodman in Tribune
Nathaniel Mehr in the Morning Star
