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Daily Sketch

British national tabloid newspaper (1909–1971)

Field	Value
name	Daily Sketch
image	Daily Sketch front page, 9 June 1913.jpg
caption	Daily Sketch front page on 9 June 1913 mentioning the death of Emily Davison.
type	Newspaper
format	Tabloid
founded	in Manchester
founder	Edward Hulton
ceased_publication	; merged into the Daily Mail
political_position	Populist, centre-right, Conservative Party
owner	Edward Hulton (1909–1920)
Daily Mirror Newspapers (1920–1925)
Allied Newspapers/Kemsley Newspapers (1925-1952)
Associated Newspapers (1952–1971)
sister_newspapers	Sunday Graphic (1927–1952)

Note

the newspaper published from 1909 to 1971

Daily Mirror Newspapers (1920–1925) Allied Newspapers/Kemsley Newspapers (1925-1952) Associated Newspapers (1952–1971) The Daily Sketch was the oldest national tabloid newspaper in the UK. It was founded in Manchester in 1909 by Sir Edward Hulton, 1st Baronet.

The Sketch was Conservative in its politics and populist in its tone during its existence through all its changes of ownership. Faced with declining circulation in the 1950s and 1960s and competition from the Daily Mirror, it closed on Tuesday, 11 May 1971, and merged with the Daily Mail.

History

In its most prosperous times, the Sketch enjoyed a daily print run of 1.3 million.

In 1920, Lord Rothermere's Daily Mirror Newspapers bought the Daily Sketch. In 1925 Rothermere sold it to William and Gomer Berry (later Viscount Camrose and Viscount Kemsley). In 1926 it absorbed the Daily Graphic.

It was owned by a subsidiary of the Berrys' Allied Newspapers from 1928 (renamed Kemsley Newspapers in 1937 when Camrose withdrew to concentrate his efforts on The Daily Telegraph). From this point forward, its sister newspaper was the Sunday Graphic.

In 1946, twenty years after it had taken over the Daily Graphic, the latter name was revived and the Daily Sketch name disappeared for a while.

In 1952, Kemsley decided to sell the paper to Associated Newspapers, the owner of the Daily Mail, which promptly revived the Daily Sketch name in 1953.

In 1954, an infamous cartoon, titled "Family Portrait?", was published in the paper, which mocked Billy Strachan, a black British civil rights leader, for his anti-colonial and anti-imperialist beliefs. The cartoon depicted him with devil horns representing the Caribbean Labour Congress. His image was posed with images of Hewlett Johnson and Paul Robeson, all of whom stood underneath a portrait of the then recently deceased Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.

The paper participated in the 1965 press campaign against the screening of the BBC film The War Game.

The paper struggled through the 1950s and 1960s, never managing to compete successfully with the Daily Mirror, and on Tuesday, 11 May 1971, it closed and merged with the Daily Mail, which had just switched to tabloid format.

Editors

:1909: Jimmy Heddle :1914: William Sugden Robinson :1919: H. Lane :1922: H. Gates :1923: H. Lane :1926: Ivor Halstead :1928: A. Curthoys :1936: A. Sinclair :1939: Sydney Carroll :1942: Lionel Berry :1943: A. Roland Thornton and M. Watts :1944: A. Roland Thornton :1947: N. Hamilton :1948: Henry Clapp :1953: Herbert Gunn :1959: Colin Valdar :1962: Howard French :1969: David English :1971: Louis Kirby (acting)

References

(11 May 1971). "1971: Britain's oldest tabloid closes". BBC.
(16 October 1926). "Amalgamation of 'Daily Graphic' and 'Daily Sketch'". [[The Times]].
(1992). "The Encyclopedia of the British Press, 1422–1992". Macmillan.
(2 July 1946). "A Graphic Sketch". [[Daily Mirror]].
(22 December 1952). "The Press: Bigger Press Lord".
(2 January 1953). "Our London Correspondence". [[The Guardian.
Horsley, David. (2019). "Billy Strachan 1921–1988 RAF Officer, Communist, Civil Rights Pioneer, Legal Administrator, Internationalist and Above All Caribbean Man". Caribbean Labour Solidarity.
"''The War Game''". [[Peter Watkins]].
(11 May 1971). "Britain's oldest tabloid closes". [[BBC News]].
[[Rachael Low]], ''History of British Film'', Vol. 4 (2013), [https://books.google.com/books?id=6UbaAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA196 p. 196]

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