London Gazette
The London Gazette is oldest British Journal existing. Published for the first time the November 7th 1665, the Gazette since appeared without stopping. This publication is the Official journal of the United Kingdom, and thus has the obligation to publish certain legal texts. The London Gazette is not a conventional newspaper in the sense that it does not cover the usual media events, and has restricted an enough diffusion.
The London Gazette was founded during the English Restauration by Henry Muddiman. This last had started its career of Journaliste as of the interregnum, and had been appointed writer of the Parliamentary Intelligencer , the official body of the Long Parliament. In 1666, Muddiman had launched the Oxford Gazette , which proposed a selection of news on the royal court, which was then taken refuge with Oxford to escape the London Peste . Once the court returned to the Palais of Whitehall, it is thus extremely logically that it connected with the London Gazette . Although the publications of Henry Muddiman are the first account-returned regular of information of the country, they have still little in common with the modern newspapers: the handwritten writings of the journalist were indeed sent by the Poste to the subscribers, without no printed version being proposed with the sale with the general public. It was necessary, for that, to await The Athenian Mercury .
At present, the London Gazette is published the every day except for the Saturday, of the Sunday and the bank holidays.
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