A former journalist will reveal the bitter rivalry between two Victorian newspaper proprietors in a scramble to launch Preston’s first evening newspaper. Dr Andrew Hobbs, now a journalism lecturer at […]
9 years ago The Hewitson Diaries: A Monologue returns for second performanceA second performance of the life and times of one of Preston’s longest serving journalists, Anthony Hewitson, has been arranged for January. Following a sell-out event in October on the […]
12 years ago The Hewitson Diaries: A Journalist’s Life in Victorian Britain26 October marks the centenary of the death of noted Preston journalist Anthony Hewitson (1836-1912) A one man show based on diaries of his life in Victorian Britain will take […]
12 years ago Preston’s Victorian churches revealed in new bookTheir spires dominate the Preston skyline but how much do you know about the city’s churches? A new book celebrating a Victorian journalists visit to the chapels in Preston and […]
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