The Crowning Glory of Edward's Empire ; the Period We Are Covering This Week in Our Review of the Western Daily Press' 150 Years of Telling the News Dawns with a Very Private Tragedy for This Newspaper and Ends with a Large-Scale Conflict of the Kind Millions of Late Victorians Thought They Would Never See Again.

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The period we are covering this week in our review of the Western Daily Press' 150 years of telling the news dawns with a very private tragedy for this newspaper and ends with a large-scale conflict of the kind millions of late Victorians thought they would never see again.

In little more than two-and-a-half years, British fatalities in the Boer War were five times greater than those of the United States in Iraq over twice that period, 20,000 compared with 4,000.

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The Crowning Glory of Edward's Empire ; the Period We Are Covering This Week in Our Review of the Western Daily Press' 150 Years of Telling the News Dawns with a Very Private Tragedy for This Newspaper and Ends with a Large-Scale Conflict of the Kind Millions of Late Victorians Thought They Would Never See Again.

It was a drama that dominated our news pages from 1899 to 1902, told more thoroughly, graphically and immediately than would have been dreamed possible only a few years previously.

But first, that sad story exclusive to the We...

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