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Saturday 07 January 2017
The first edition of the Sunday Telegraph hit the streets on Sunday, February 5 1961.
Nigel Farndale delves into the archives to explore half a century of extraordinary newspaper history.
As the Sunday Telegraph prepares to celebrate its 50th birthday, we look back at the major world events of the last half century.
The idea of these anniversary articles is to tell the 50-year history of The Sunday Telegraph in 50 stories.
On June 1, 1975, four days before the referendum on Europe, a full-page op ed article was headlined “Fourfold case for saying yes”.
In April 1980 there was cautious optimism about the election of “Comrade Mugabe” as leader of “Zimbabwe Rhodesia”.
It seems very odd to be stumbling on to the stage as The Sunday Telegraph’s “oldest living inhabitant”.
48 years ago I walked in through the door of that looming Telegraph building in Fleet Street.
Was the Sunday Telegraph slavishly Thatcherite?
A newspaper’s reputation, writes Mark Reason, remains founded on good reporting.
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