Rupert Murdoch announces he is buying The Times, flanked by its incoming and outgoing editors, Harold Evans and William Rees-Mogg.
Rupert Murdoch announces he is buying The Times, flanked by its incoming and outgoing editors, Harold Evans and William Rees-Mogg.
Lamb to the slaughter. Lord Dacre on his way to Hamburg to tell the world’s press that the Hitler diaries are genuine.
Murdoch gives the Queen a crash course in page make-up when she visits the paper for its bicentenary in 1985.
Facing the final hurdle. Douglas-Home continued editing The Times in the last weeks of his life from a hospital bed.
Flanked by Bill O’Neill and Bruce Matthews, Rupert Murdoch briefs the press on the deadlock in talks with the print unions, 19 January 1986.
The arson of News International’s warehouse in Deptford – the most intense blaze in London since the Blitz.
Times journalists take the honours at the 1988 British Press Awards. Robert Fisk, Bernard Levin, Howard Foster, John Woodcock, Barbara Amiel and John Goodbody.
Like life on a nuclear submarine, there was little legroom in The Times’s elongated and windowless Wapping home. From the upper gantry, Charlie Wilson could berate the ratings.
Gentlemen of The Times pay Tony Blair a house call during the 1997 election campaign. Clockwise from Blair are Peter Stothard, Anatole Kaletsky, Alastair Campbell (Blair’s press secretary) and Peter Riddell.
Halabja, northern Iraq, 1988. Richard Beeston uncovers the victims of Saddam’s chemical weapons attack on his Kurdish subjects.
