The Newcastle Sun

Front page of The Newcastle Sun on 23 March 1918.

The Newcastle Sun was a newspaper published in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. It had previously been published as The Northern Times.

History

The Northern Times was first published in 1916.[1] In 1918 the Times was purchased by Sir Hugh Denison, publisher of The Sun who changed the name to The Newcastle Sun.[2] The Newcastle Sun was acquired by Newcastle Morning Herald in 1936 and continued until 1980 when it ceased publication.[3]

A newspaper named Northern Times and Newcastle Telegraph had previously been published in Maitland from 1857-1860.[4]

Digitisation

The paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program (ANDP) project of the National Library of Australia.[5] [6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Kirkpatrick, Rod (2000). Country Conscience: a history of the New South Wales provincial press. Canberra: Infinite Harvest Publishing. p. 204. ISBN 0646402706.
  2. ↑ Kirkpatrick, Rod (2000). Country Conscience: a history of the New South Wales provincial press. Canberra: Infinite Harvest Publishing. p. 204. ISBN 0646402706.
  3. ↑ Kirkpatrick, Rod (2000). Country Conscience: a history of the New South Wales provincial press. Canberra: Infinite Harvest Publishing. p. 340. ISBN 0646402706.
  4. ↑ Kirkpatrick, Rod (2000). Country Conscience: a history of the New South Wales provincial press. Canberra: Infinite Harvest Publishing. p. 14. ISBN 0646402706.
  5. ↑ "Newspaper and magazine titles". Trove Digitised newspapers and more. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  6. ↑ "Newspaper Digitisation Program". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 June 2013.

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