bob-clarke

Bob Clarke

Bob Clarke has been collecting early newspapers for the past forty years and has built up a collection of 1,000 newspapers and other news publications printed before 1800. He is the author of From Grub Street to Fleet Street: An illustrated history of English newspapers to 1899 (Ashgate 2004; Revel Barker 2010) and The Basingstoke Riots: Massagainians v the Salvation Army 1880-1883 (Basingstoke Archaeological and Historical Society, 2010).