The Newcastle Sun was a newspaper published in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. It had previously been published as The Northern Times.

Front page of The Newcastle Sun on 23 March 1918.

History

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The Northern Times was first published in 1916.[1] In 1918 the Times was purchased by Sir Hugh Denison, publisher of The Sun who changed the name to The Newcastle Sun.[2] The Newcastle Sun was acquired by Newcastle Morning Herald in 1936 and continued until 1980 when it ceased publication.[3]

A newspaper named The Northern Times (with the alternative title Northern Times and Newcastle Telegraph) had previously been published in Maitland from 1857-1860.[4][5] The Northern Telegraph resumed publication in 1916, before being absorbed by the Northern Times in 1918.[6][5]

Digitisation

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The paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program project of the National Library of Australia.[7][8]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Kirkpatrick, Rod (2000). Country Conscience: a history of the New South Wales provincial press. Canberra: Infinite Harvest Publishing. p. 204. ISBN 0646402706.
  2. ^ Kirkpatrick, Rod (2000). Country Conscience: a history of the New South Wales provincial press. Canberra: Infinite Harvest Publishing. p. 204. ISBN 0646402706.
  3. ^ Kirkpatrick, Rod (2000). Country Conscience: a history of the New South Wales provincial press. Canberra: Infinite Harvest Publishing. p. 340. ISBN 0646402706.
  4. ^ Kirkpatrick, Rod (2000). Country Conscience: a history of the New South Wales provincial press. Canberra: Infinite Harvest Publishing. p. 14. ISBN 0646402706.
  5. ^ a b "Northern times (Newcastle, N.S.W.)". Catalogue. State Library of NSW. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
  6. ^ Kirkpatrick, Rod (2000). Country Conscience: a history of the New South Wales provincial press, 1841-1995. Canberra: Infinite Harvest Publishing Pty Ltd. p. 339.
  7. ^ "Newspaper and magazine titles". Trove. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  8. ^ "Newspaper Digitisation Program". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
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