Manchester Guardian

James Kirkup, The Sunglasses, Manchester Guardian Literary Supplement, 1951. 

Manchester Guardian, 27 Jan. 1910, cited in Arthur Marder, From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow The Royal Navy in the Fisher Era, 1904-1919, 5 vols. (Oxford University Press, 1961—70), vol. I, p.56. 

In Britain, the manufacture of cordite had commenced in 1889 in the royal gunpowder factory at Waltham Abbey. The acetone, which was critical to the process, was made from the distillate collected from wood that was heated to a high temperature. The best wood for this purpose came from the forests of continental Europe, and it was therefore unavailable to the British after the start of World War i. But in 1915 a chance meeting solved this problem. C.P. Scott of The Manchester Guardian introduced David Lloyd George, the Minister of Munitions, to one Chaim Weizmann. 

In spite of this marked expansion, a quote from the Manchester Guardian in this period best depicts the international situation ... 

Consultant psychiatrist. The scandal of the British mental hospital. Manchester Guardian, Mar. 25, 1965. 

Harvey, D. J. Typical conditions (Letters). Manchester Guardian, March 30, 1965, p. 6. 

Shrapnel, N. Mental hospitals disclosures appall MP. Manchester Guardian, Mar. so, 1965, p. s. 

Jack B. Yeats, who accompanied Synge on his tour of Connemara, described him as an ardent Home Ruler and Nationalist . Synge s series of twelve articles on Connemara published in the Manchester Guardian in 1905 make Synge s socialist and anti-colonialist politics unmistakable. In the final article ( Possible Remedies ), after suggesting various economic and social reforms, Synge concludes ... 

The Well of the Saints produced at the Abbey Theatre commissioned (with artist Jack B. Yeats) by the Manchester Guardian to write a series of twelve articles on the congested districts of the west of Ireland. 

The poor environmental conditions found in Manchester at this time prompted a call for sanitary reform which was taken up by the strong scientific community. This community was centred on the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society and included Lyon Playfair, Frederick Crace-Calvert, Edward Frankland, and Edward Schunck, as well as Robert Angus Smith. A letter written by Smith to the Manchester Guardian in November 1844 shows a deep concern for the environment... 

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