# Leeds Times

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| editor                 = [Robert Nicoll](/source/Robert_Nicoll), [Samuel Smiles](/source/Samuel_Smiles)<ref name="Churchill2017">{{cite book|author=David Churchill|title=Crime Control and Everyday Life in the Victorian City: The Police and the Public|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7wpDDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA228|year=2017|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-879784-5|pages=228–}}</ref>
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The '''''Leeds Times''''' was a weekly newspaper established in 1833, and published at the office in [Briggate, Leeds](/source/Briggate%2C_Leeds), [West Yorkshire](/source/West_Yorkshire), [England](/source/England).<ref name="Parsons1835">{{cite book|author=Edward Parsons|title=The Tourist's Companion; Or, The History of the Scenes and Places on the Route by the Railroad and Steam-packet from Leeds and Selby to Hull|url=https://archive.org/details/touristscompani01parsgoog|year=1835|publisher=Whittaker|pages=[https://archive.org/details/touristscompani01parsgoog/page/n65 49]–}}</ref> It ceased publication on 30 March 1901, with [Robert Nicoll](/source/Robert_Nicoll) as one of its first editors,<ref name="BuckinghamSterling1871">{{cite book|author1=James Silk Buckingham|author2=John Sterling|author3=Frederick Denison Maurice, Henry Stebbing, Charles Wentworth Dilke, Thomas Kibble Hervey, William Hepworth Dixon, Norman Maccoll, Vernon Horace Rendall, John Middleton Murry|title=The Athenaeum: A Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music, and the Drama|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WSw5AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA423|year=1871|publisher=J. Francis|pages=423–}}</ref> and [Samuel Smiles](/source/Samuel_Smiles) as its editor from 1839 to 1848.<ref name=Morris>R. J. Morris ''The Historical Journal'', Vol. 24, No. 1 (March 1981), pp.&nbsp;89-109 Samuel Smiles and the Genesis of Self-Help; the Retreat to a Petit Bourgeois Utopia</ref>

==History==
The first issue of ''Leeds Times'' was on Thursday 7 March 1833,<ref>{{cite book|title=The Yorkshire Magazine: A Monthly Literary Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PUJFAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA336|year=1874|publisher=Yorkshire Literary Union|pages=336–}}</ref> the last issue was 30 March 1901.<ref>{{cite web|title=Leeds Times in British Newspaper Archive|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/leeds-times|year=1874|publisher=[British Newspaper Archive](/source/British_Newspaper_Archive)|accessdate=20 July 2019}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.gerald-massey.org.uk/nicoll/b_leeds_times.htm Robert Nicoll] Editorials from the ''Leeds Times''

Category:Defunct newspapers published in the United Kingdom
Category:Mass media in Leeds
Category:Newspapers established in 1833
Category:Publications disestablished in 1901
Category:1833 establishments in England

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