The evolution of journalism, etcetera : souvenir of the International Press Conference, London, 1909.

  • Wellcome, Henry S. (Henry Solomon), Sir, 1853-1936.
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[1909]
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Credit: The evolution of journalism, etcetera : souvenir of the International Press Conference, London, 1909. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    employed by Cicero to report verbatim the speech of Cato in the great debate on the Catiline Conspiracy. The Anglo-Saxon chroniclers recorded on vellum for posterity the account of the invasion of Britain by the Romans, and later historians, like Froissart, crystallised in uncial or Gothic script the stirring events of mediaeval times. William of Malmesbury, Higden, and their fellow chroniclers recorded with fidelity the events of the picturesque period in which they lived. To the great discovery in Europe of the art of printing, about M5°> which affected so profoundly civilisation throughout the world, journalism owes its greatest debt. From Germany the pupils of Gutenberg soon spread far and wide, and about the year 1474 saw the first book printed in English by \\ illiam Caxton. Wynken de Worde, worthy- follower of his master, took up the torch, which has since shed its light to the farthermost corners of the world. The story of the printed newspaper or modern chronicle in London, which took its rise at the close of the sixteenth century, is told in the following pages, which show the evolution from its very modest beginnings to the great journals of world-wide circulation of to-day. H. S. W. The Newspaper is the only instrument by which the same thought can be dropped into a thousand minds at the same moment ”-de tocqueville..