In 1800 Cobbett launched his daily newspaper 'The Porcupine', but he had greater success with 'The Political Register', a weekly publication that ran from 1802 until his death in 1835 and in which he pioneered the use of a leading article to express his views.
Between 1809 and 1812 he also edited and published 'Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials', and from 1804 he compiled and printed Parliamentary debates from the Norman Conquest onward, in volumes entitled ‘Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England’. In 1812 Cobbett sold his share in both publications to the publisher Thomas Curzon Hansard.
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