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ANDREW BENT: Father of the Free Press in Australia

ANDREW BENT: Father of the Free Press in Australia

Life and Times of 'Little Struggler' (1791-1851): London – Hobart Town – Sydney/Kempsey

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1.40pm on 4 June 1824

The moment in time when the gentleman editor and official censor of the Hobart Town Gazette, Henry Emmett Esq, realised that the printer, Andrew Bent, was deliberately going to press without his prior approval

A Moment in Time…

From this date, 4 June 1824, Andrew Bent’s Hobart Town Gazette threw off the shackles of official censorship – a position which was sustained and defended over subsequent weeks, months and years despite Lt Governor Arthur’s best efforts to subjugate the press. On this day and by his conduct, the…Continue reading “A Moment in Time…”

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Marginalia

1 May 201929 Jun 2019
The 2018 conference of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand - Marginalia: Bibliography at the Margins - highlighted handwritten annotations as a fertile field of study. Early Australian…
Imprints

“Michael Howe” turns 200!

15 Mar 201915 Mar 2019
Today - 15 March 2019 - is a special anniversary in the annals of Australian printing and publishing. Two hundred years ago in Hobart Town emancipist printer Andrew Bent published…
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Tommy Bent

1 Feb 201929 Jun 2019
Was there a family connection between printer Andrew Bent and Sir Thomas Bent (1838-1909), the colourful, controversial and often corrupt land speculator, politician and premier of Victoria? There are some…
Family

Andrew Bent Junior

7 Jan 201913 May 2022
Last November the colonial printer, Andrew Bent, was celebrated at the Australian Media Hall of Fame dinner as ‘Australia’s first fighter for press freedom’, having wrested control of the Hobart…
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Apprenticeship

17 Dec 201817 Dec 2018
  How Andrew Bent became so skilled at the printing craft has long remained a mystery. In a memoir of Bent published in the Mercury in 1881 James Erskine Calder…
Events

Hall of Fame, 2018

30 Nov 20186 May 2021
Speaking at the Legends of Australian Journalism dinner held in Melbourne on 16 November 2018, Michael Smith situated the contemporary inductees into the Australian Media Hall of Fame within the…
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Philip Street

26 Oct 201826 Oct 2018
Philip Street was convicted alongside Andrew Bent at the Old Bailey on 1 November 1810. Philip's family background helps to explain why he was granted a full pardon for their…
Imprints

Stanhope Press

12 Oct 201812 Oct 2018
Collection: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. S1973.104 Photo courtesy of TMAG For over eighty years it was generally believed that the Stanhope press in the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery…
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Conviction, 1810

5 Oct 20185 Nov 2018
Old Bailey, London Thursday 1 November 1810 Just after 8am on Thursday 1 November 1810, with a jury of 12 Londoners duly sworn, the stage was set for the trial…
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Baptism, 1791

22 Jul 201812 Oct 2018
24 October 1791 St Giles-on-the-Fields, London We have established that Andrew Bent was baptised in the church of St Giles-in-the-Fields, London on 24 October 1791 as the son of Andrew…

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