Journalist Collection (page 12)

Pavel Dashkov, Russian historian, collector and journalist, 1880s. Artist: Volf Ilyich Yasvoin
Pavel Dashkov (1849-1910), Russian historian, collector and journalist, 1880s. Found in the collection of the State Museum of History, Moscow

Camille Desmoulins (1760-1794), 1895. French journalist and revolutionary whose writings in favour of clemency displeased Robespierre. He was guillotined at the same time as his friend, Danton

William Howard Russell, Irish-born British journalist, 1875. Artist: Carlo Pellegrini
William Howard Russell, Irish-born British journalist, 1875. Russell (1820-1907) was war correspondent for The Times during the Crimean War) and The Daily Telegraph in the Zulu War

Edwin Arnold (1832-1904), British orientalist, poet and journalist, c1890. Arnold became leader writer for The Daily Telegraph in 1861, and the newspapers chief editor in 1873

Charles Dickens (1812-70) giving his last public reading at St Jamess Hall, London, 5 March 1870. He read extracts from A Christmas Carol and the trial scene from Pickwick Papers

Charles Dickens (1812-70), English novelist and journalist, July 1858
Charles Dickens (1812-70), English novelist and journalist. Dickens giving a public reading from his Dombey and Son, July 1858

Theodore Roosevelt addressing a meeting in New York State, 1901. Roosevelt (1858-1919), American Republican politician, was elected Governor of New York in 1898

Cameraman from filming Russian troops in Manchuria for an early newsreel, Russo-Japanese War, 1904. From Le Petit Journal, Paris, 5 June 1904. Colour

William Thomas Stead, English author and journalist, c1890. Artist: W&D Downey
William Thomas Stead, English author and journalist, c1890. Stead (1849-1912) was editor of the Northern Echo (1871-1880) and the Pall Mall Gazette (1883-1890)

The Return of the Wanderer, 1888. Artist: Joseph Swain
The Return of the Wanderer, 1888. Little Lord Randolph Churchill returns in a furtive manner, watched by a couple of astute journalists

Is Detection a Failure?, 1888. Artist: Joseph Swain
Is Detection a Failure?, 1888. Punch points out the drawbacks inherent in the footsteps of the policeman being dogged by journalists

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