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<strong>23 December 1971</strong>: The collection dates from 1821 to the early 1970s and includes the political diaries, letters and notes of CP Scott

Last modified on Fri 7 May 2021 07.07 EDT A daily newspaper cannot publish for 200 years without getting some things wrong. This one has made its share of mistakes. There will always be errors of news judgment given the nature of the work. Tight deadlines meant the sinking of the Titanic was relegated to a small spot on page 9 in 1912; errors of scientific understanding resulted in a 1927 article that promoted the virtues of asbestos, and others in the late 1970s that warned of a looming ice ag...

Times change but the Guardian’s values don’t: 200 years, and we’ve only just begun Katharine Viner I remember the day, in late March 2020, when I first worried that we might not be able to publish a newspaper, for what would have been only the second time in the Guardian’s history. I had driven into the office – no one was taking the train any more. Classed as an essential worker, I was permitted to travel, but the streets were utterly silent, with every school, cafe a...