Which national newspaper did the Sun replace in 1964
The Sun (United Kingdom) Sun), Belfast (The Sun) and Dublin (The Irish Sun) respectively. "The Sun" was first published as a broadsheet on 15 September 1964, with a logo featuring a glowing orange disc. It was launched by owners IPC (International Publishing Corporation) to replace the failing "Daily Herald". The paper was intended to add a readership of "social radicals" to the "Herald" "political radicals". Supposedly there was "an immense, sophisticated and superior middle class, hitherto undetected and yearning for its own newspaper", wrote Bernard Shrimsley of Abrams' work forty-years later. "As delusions go, this was in the El Dorado class". Launched with an
True Sun (London newspaper) advocating tax resistance against the British government's window tax. In July 1835 D. Whittle Harvey purchased "The True Sun". In 1837 Murdo Young purchased "The True Sun" from Whittle Harvey and a co-proprietor and merged it into his newspaper "The Sun" (which was published from 1792 to 1871). True Sun (London newspaper) The True Sun was a London, pro-Whig, evening newspaper that was first published on 5 March 1832 and ceased publication in December 1837. It was published daily except Sundays. In 1832–1834 Charles Dickens was a reporter for "The True Sun". In December 1833 Henry Hunt brought a libel