The Sphere (newspaper)

The Sphere: An Illustrated Newspaper for the Home and, later, The Sphere: The Empire's Illustrated Weekly, was a British newspaper, published by London Illustrated Newspapers weekly from 27 January 1900 until the closure of the paper on 27 June 1964.

Background

The first issue came out at the height of the

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The British Library and the National Library of Scotland hold copies of the entire publication run of this newspaper. The Sphere is searchable on the British Newspaper Archive.

In popular culture

In the film Three Faces East (1930), set in England during WWI, Frances Hawtree (Constance Bennett) peruses a copy of The Sphere.

References

1. ^ Caroline Zilboorg, ‘Shorter, Clement King (1857–1926)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 1 Jan 2008
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3. ^ "Obituary - Dr. Caroline Matthews". The British Medical Journal. 30 April 1927. p. 819.
4. ^ W. D. Rubinstein, ‘Ellerman, Sir John Reeves, first baronet (1862–1933)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 2006, accessed 1 Jan 2008

Sources

• Illustrated London News Picture Library website
• Information on the Illustrated London News Group
• Thomas Hardy's A Changed Man

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Sphere (newspaper).

• Illustration of trench system from the Sphere magazine, Scran ID: 000-000-475-242-C, National Library of Scotland