Battle of Britain-Replica Newspaper

This edition from June 19th 1940 of the Daily Sketch 16 page replica newspaper from Resources for Teaching includes: Article: Battle of Britain: RAF on the offensive – Article: Evacuation: Let all the children go safely – Article: Premier’s call ‘To our duty’ – Article: Hitler and Mussolini decide France’s fate – Article: French army of 500,00 escapes – Article: Paris B.E.F and R.A.F. are back – Article: Philippines send £2,629 to our appeal – Article: Immediate training for all men to fight. – Article: Call to the battlements – Article: Unite R.A.F. and Army – Article: Centre spread – We have under arms in this Island 1,250,000 men (lots of pictures) – Article: Talk of the town – Article: Italy’s air power – Article: News in four languages – Article: Britain’s middle east army ‘We stand firm’ – Article: R.A.F. again bombs Ruhr oil stores – Article: Many more local and international stories – Adverts: Many adverts from the era – NOTE: This newspaper is a replica of the original Daily Sketch newspaper from Wednesday 19th June 1940. – About the Daily Sketch The Daily Sketch was a British national tabloid newspaper, founded in Manchester in 1909 by Sir Edward Hulton. It was bought in 1920 by Lord Rothermere’s Daily Mirror Newspapers but in 1925 Rothermere offloaded it to William and Gomer Berry (later Viscount Camrose and Viscount Kemsley), who merged it with the Daily Graphic. It was owned by a subsidiary the Berrys’ Allied Newspapers (renamed Kemsley Newspapers in 1937 when Camrose withdrew to concentrate his efforts on the Daily Telegraph) until 1952, and from 1946 it was renamed the Daily Graphic. Then, however, Kemsley decided to sell the paper to Associated Newspapers, the owner of the Daily Mail, who promptly renamed it the Daily Sketch. The paper struggled through the 1950s and 1960s, never managing to compete successfully with the Daily Mirror, and in 1971 it was closed and merged with the Daily Mail