INTRODUCTION
THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY EDITORIAL TEAM
A century in the life of the world
The Wall Street crash
1929
‘The Weekly eased the tyranny of distance’
1921
The Hindenburg disaster
1937
WEEKLY MEMORIES
1936
The bombing of Hiroshima
1945
1944
The Suez crisis
1956
1955
The Apollo 11 moon landing
1969
For the mere Earthbound, a day of exhaustion
Bloody Sunday
1972
The Hillsborough tragedy
1989
‘For many it was their only source of international news’
1988
The fall of the Berlin Wall
1995
The genocide in Rwanda
1994
‘They didn’t believe there was a daily’
1993
The 11 September attacks
2001
1999
The invasion of Iraq
2003
‘In 1980s Ethiopia, any news from the world was precious’
2005
The Arab spring
2011
2015
The election of Donald Trump
2016
2018