User:Intcobiz/The Glasgow Citizen

The Glasgow Citizen, founded in 1842 by James Hedderwick, was a newspaper, initially published weekly and featuring works of prominent Scottish writers. The newspaper went on to publish daily and in 1864 became an evening newspaper the Glasgow Evening Citizen, the first evening paper to be published in Glasgow and which went on to be the model for evening newspapers elsewhere in the United Kingdom.

Only limited information is known about The Glasgow Citizen and no copies of the newspaper exist in Glasgow's archives in the Mitchell Library, although the library does hold an "album of letters, cuttings, ephemera etc" for the Hedderwick printing business within their Special Collections. The family printing company James Hedderwick & Son, operated first from offices in Trongate, then in Argyll Street before moving to 32 & 34 St Enoch Square in 1840 where The Glasgow Citizen was founded.

In 2020 a sheet of The Glasgow Citizen, dating from November 1815, was discovered behind a mirror of an old wardrobe in California, USA.