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Tag: General Post Office

Mr Punch’s dog

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I tracked down Toby (a riotous East End paper named after Punch’s dog that got the authorities’ rag and landed its editor in prison)…a paper slated as ‘a disreputable and pestilential print’ and ‘a scandal to the country’ by the judge who would later try Oscar Wilde. Discover the extraordinary married couple behind the publication… Continue reading Mr Punch’s dog

Published 9 November 2025
Categorised as History, Uncategorized Tagged Can't think why, Dr James Morrison Orr, east anglia bylines, East End, East London Union for Advanced Education, Francis Parsons, General Post Office, GPO, Hackney Death Trap, Libel, Lord Justice Charles, Maidstone Assizes, Mile End Road, nervous debility, Pollie Parsons, Private Eye, STrike, Toby
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