Category:Newspapers

Hastings & St Leonards were well covered by a number of periodicals. This table conveniently provided by the first edition of the Hastings & St Leonards' Times reveals that there was at least one periodical for each day of the week excepting Sundays and Mondays in 1877^[1]:-

Brett's list of periodicals[edit]

Additionally, Brett wrote in a letter to the Hastings & St Leonards Observer of the 25th December 1909 that during the 19th century, Hastings was reported upon in a large number of periodicals, listing them as follows^[2]:-

"Among the local and provincial papers in which Hastings and its neighbourhood were wholly or largely represented and catered for were the
Sussex Advertiser, established in 1745 ;
Brighton Herald, 1805;
Brighton Gazette, 1821 Brighton Guardian, 1827;
The Kentish Gazette, 1769;
The Hastings Iris, 1830;
Cinque Ports Chronicle, 1838 ;
Dover Chronicle, 1835 (edited by. the Rev. Thos. Bigg: Hastings) ;
The Sussex. Express, 1857;
The Southern Advertiser, 1840;
Hastings News, Hastings and St. Leonards Penny Press, by T. B. Brett, 1854;
Hastings and St. Leonards Fashionable Record, by W. Walter, 1854;
St. Leonards Advertiser, by C, H. Southall, 1853 or 1854;
St. Leonards and Hastings Gazette, by T. B. Brett, 1855;
South Eastern Advertiser, by Isaac Parsons, 1855 ;
Hastings and St. Leonards Herald, 1861;
Hastings, St. Leonards and Battle Advertiser, printed at Battle, 1855 ;
Hastings and St, Leonards Times, by Isaac Parsons, at Rye, 1857;
Hastings and St. Leonards Herald, 1861;
Hastings and St. Leonards Observer, by J. H. Knight, 1859 or 1850;
Herald and Observer, 1665;
Rye Telegram, by B. B. Stuchbery, 1866;
Osborne's Hastings Paper, some time in the 1860s ;
Hastings and St. Leonards World, 1878;
Hastings and St Leonards Guardian, 1674;
Randle and Jenner's Visitors List, 1878;
East-Sussex News, 1855. Bexhill Chronicle, 1889;
Bexhill Observer. 1896;
Sussex Daily News, 1868 ;
Weekly News, 1376;
Morning Argus, 1896 ;
Evening Argus, 1879;
Hastings and St. Leonards Evening Journal. 1839;
Hastings and St Leonards Times, by Mr. Halley Stewart, 1877 ;
Hastings and St. Leonards Weekly Mail, 1893 the Kentish Express, 1855 ;"

In addition, there were upwards of 100 other papers in the three counties of Sussex Surrey and Kent.

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