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Yr Amserau
Type newspaper
Owner(s)Thomas Gee (October 1859), John Lloyd (1848; October 1859)
Founder(s) William Rees, John Jones  Edit this on Wikidata
PublisherJohn Jones, Michael James Whitty, John Lloyd  Edit this on Wikidata
Editor William Rees, John Roberts
Launched24 August 1843  Edit this on Wikidata
City Liverpool  Edit this on Wikidata
Country United Kingdom
OCLC number 895987847

Yr Amserau (established in 1846 by William Rees and John Jones) was a bi-weekly Welsh language newspaper, distributed in Merseyside and North Wales. It covered local and national news, supporting radical and nonconformist principles The popular column (to which it may have owed its success) 'The Letters of an Old Farmer', covered topics such as religion, politics, education, and the Corn Laws. Associated titles: Baner ac Amserau Cymru (1859–1971). [1]

Welsh Newspapers Online has digitised many of the early issues of Yr Amserau from the National Library of Wales' newspaper collection.

References

  1. ^ Yr Amserau at Welsh Newspapers Online, National Library of Wales
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yr Amserau
Type newspaper
Owner(s)Thomas Gee (October 1859), John Lloyd (1848; October 1859)
Founder(s) William Rees, John Jones  Edit this on Wikidata
PublisherJohn Jones, Michael James Whitty, John Lloyd  Edit this on Wikidata
Editor William Rees, John Roberts
Launched24 August 1843  Edit this on Wikidata
City Liverpool  Edit this on Wikidata
Country United Kingdom
OCLC number 895987847

Yr Amserau (established in 1846 by William Rees and John Jones) was a bi-weekly Welsh language newspaper, distributed in Merseyside and North Wales. It covered local and national news, supporting radical and nonconformist principles The popular column (to which it may have owed its success) 'The Letters of an Old Farmer', covered topics such as religion, politics, education, and the Corn Laws. Associated titles: Baner ac Amserau Cymru (1859–1971). [1]

Welsh Newspapers Online has digitised many of the early issues of Yr Amserau from the National Library of Wales' newspaper collection.

References

  1. ^ Yr Amserau at Welsh Newspapers Online, National Library of Wales

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