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Evening Post (London)

London newspaper published from 1710 until February 1732

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ5416619 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Evening Post was a London newspaper published from 1710 until February 1732, not to be confused with the London Evening Post.

The paper was printed by E. Berington in Silver Street, Bloomsbury, and sold by John Morphew near Stationers-Hall.

The paper was then published as Berington's Evening Post from 8 February 1732 until 29 August 1740.

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“Evening Post (London)” enters the record as london newspaper published from 1710 until February 1732. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Evening, Post and London can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1710, 1732, 1740—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Evening, Post and London.
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“Evening Post (London)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Evening, Post and London provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5416619. The first chronological checks are 1710, 1732 and 1740.

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This entry incorporates text from “Evening Post (London)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.