Category:The Argus

2024: Dummy/mockup front page of the Argus, created for the Argus' "Meet the Editor" event held at Brighton Toy and Model Museum, 6th March 2024 [image info]

The Argus is a local newspaper serving Brighton and the surrounding areas. It will celebrate its 150th anniversary in 2040.

1880 launch

The Argus newspaper (originally the Evening Argus) was founded in 1880, amidst the hotly-contested (and sometimes quite vicious) general election of 1880. Introduced as "the new candidate", The Evening Argus was named after Argus Panoptes (Argus "the all-seeing"), sometimes depicted as a giant with one hundred eyes, the concept being that with all the falsehoods being propagated on all sides during the 1880 election, it was the Argus that would know what was really going on.

2001 relaunch

The Evening Argus was redesigned and relaunched as just "The Argus" on 6th June 2001.

Archives

As well as the British Newspaper Archive, Brighton Museum also have a collection of early issues of the Evening Argus digitised. At time of writing (March 2024) the collection appears to be offline.

External links

• The Argus (Brighton) (wikipedia.org)
  • 1880 UK General Election (wikipedia.org)
• Brighton Argus archives (britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk)
• The ‘New Candidate’ with 100 eyes: a look at the launch issue of the Brighton Argus, 30 March 1880 (brightonmuseums.org.uk)
• The day we became The Argus (theargus.co.uk)
• Circulation (abc.org.uk)

• The Argus journalists and offices during COVID (youtube.com) – video