The Sunday People is a British tabloid Sunday newspaper. It was founded as The People on 16 October 1881.
At one point owned by Odhams Press, The People was acquired along with Odhams by the Mirror Group in 1961, along with the Daily Herald, which eventually became The Sun. It switched from broadsheet to tabloid on 22 September 1974.
The Sunday People is now published by Reach plc, and shares a website with the Mirror papers. In July 2011, when it benefited from the closure of the News of the World, it had an average Sunday circulation of 806,544. By December 2016 the circulation had shrunk to 239,364 and by August 2020 to 125,216.
Notable events In March 1951 the Sunday People (then known as The People) published an article claiming that the British military had allowed Iban mercenaries to collect scalps from human corpses in the ongoing Malayan Emergency war. British colonial officials saw this article as a potential propaganda threat and drew plans to release a rebuttal in the Straits Times. The paper's claims would later be proven true following the British Malayan headhunting scandal.
Notable columnists Garry Bushell had a two-page television opinion column, "Bushell on the Box", but left in early 2007, later moving to the Daily Star Sunday. Jimmy Greaves, the former England footballer Fred Trueman, former England cricketer and fast bowler Fred Harrison, an established economics author of 19 books Dean Dunham, consumer columnist and leading authority on Consumer protection.
Editors
1881: Sebastian Evans 1890: Harry Benjamin Vogel 1900: Joseph Hatton 1913: John Sansome 1922: Robert Donald 1924: Hannen Swaffer 1925: Harry Ainsworth 1957: Stuart Campbell 1966: Bob Edwards 1972: Geoffrey Pinnington 1982: Nicholas Lloyd 1984: Richard Stott 1985: Ernie Burrington 1988: John Blake 1989: Wendy Henry 1989: Ernie Burrington (acting) 1990: Richard Stott 1991: Bill Hagerty 1992: Bridget Rowe 1996: Brendon Parsons 1998: Neil Wallis 2003: Mark Thomas 2008: Lloyd Embley 2012: James Scott 2014: Alison Phillips 2016: Gary Jones 2018: Peter Willis 2020: Paul Henderson 2021: Gemma Aldridge 2024: Caroline Waterston 2025: to date Chloe Hubbard
Digital Archive The paper (1881-1999) on both British Newspaper Archive and Newspapers.com recent years at Pressdisplay.com.
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