50,000 editions

The Guardian prints the 50,000th edition on Monday, and to celebrate they showed 50 front pages to illustrate the paper's coverage of momentous events over the last 186 years. As an avid Guardian reader from a young age, the first one that I can remember reading [from the selection shown...] was the one about the funeral of Winston Churchill - but I do remember hearing about the Cuban missile crisis, [my dad was on a few hours call up for weeks on end, his kitbag packed and ready to pick up at the bottom of the stairs...], and President Kennedy being assassinated. The old copies of the paper were very messy, hands were black after reading, but they were fantastic for lighting the fire! But they did teach me to spell, as I was expected to be able to correctly spell the misspelt words by my mum!


50,000 issues of the Guardian