Educational News:Lessons For The Press From Dickens.

In Aidan een the first edition of a particular newspaper – The Daily News – edited by one Charles Dickens and referring back to 1846.

It was simply in a box covered with dust at his home in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, and had been there for a very long time for up to half a century. According to Bell, he sad "It was a converse-dropping moment. "When I saw the date, I was amazed because it was long time to ever imagine. I immediately realised it was something special and something that must have been relevant."

Immediately he contacted the University of Buckingham, whose English professor, John Drew, has ascended a project to publish on-line Dickens' weekly magazines Household Words and All The Year Round which were first generated in the 1850s and 1860s.

Professor Drew said "Even though he has spent a year or so studying coarsely gritty files of this paper on microfilm, I was enormously excited to think I might actually get to see an original copy."

"I was far from dissatisfy and disappointed: disintegrate, browned, stained by thumb-prints and coffee, the old paper reeked of 160 years of political history of British, all kicked off in fine style by Charles Dickens' opening editorial."

The editorial disclosed that: "The principles and tenet advocated by The Daily News will be tenet of progress and development of education, civil and religious liberty and also equal legislation: some of this principles such as its conductors believe the accelerating spirit of the time needed: the condition of the country demands and justice, and its experience legitimately and properly sanction.

"We seek, so far as is in us, to raise, exalt, lift and elevate the character of the Public Press in England. We believe and know it would attain and accomplish a much higher position and that those who command and posses its powers would be endlessly more respected as a class, and an important one, if it were imputation of a disposition to squalid attacks on itself, which only prevails in England and America."

Sounds and echo as if we could do with him being around today!

Up till now no decision and judgment has yet been taken as to what to do with the newspaper yet – it is in such a fragile condition that it cannot be opened at present. Ultimately, Bell may see if it could be made readily obtainable to an institution where it can be looked at by members of the public.