Cleave's Weekly Police Gazette
Cleave's Weekly Police Gazette (also known by contemporaries simply as the Weekly Police Gazette) was a British weekly newspaper published by John Cleave between 1834 and 1836. It was "one of the first and most popular to mix political news with coverage of non-political events like sensational crimes, strange occurrences, and excerpts from popular fiction".[1]
Cleave published the newspaper from his bookshop in Shoe Lane, London. Priced at 1d., the newspaper was selling 40,000 copies a week by 1836. Cleave suffered imprisonment for refusing to pay stamp duty on his publications; his fines were partly paid by the Association of Working Men to Procure a Cheap and Honest Press, which later became the . In 1836 the newspaper merged with Henry Hetherington's London Dispatch. Cleave went on to found Cleave's London Satirist and Gazette of Variety the following year.[2]
References[]
- ^ Edward Jacobs, 'The Politicization of Everyday Life in Cleave's Weekly Police Gazette (1834-36)', Victorian Periodicals Review, 40:3 (2008), pp. 225-247
- ^ Carolyn Reitz, 'Cleave's Weekly Police Gazette', Dictionary of nineteenth-century journalism in Great Britain and Ireland, ed. Laurel Brake and Marysa Demoor, Academia Press, 2009
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