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Welcome to the W.T. Stead Resource Site

William Thomas Stead was one of the most controversial men of his age. Journalist, editor, pacifist and spiritualist, he was an important contributor to the evolution of today's popular journalism, and he was the most famous passenger aboard the ill-fated Titanic, a disaster which, alas, he did not survive.. Delve deeper into this website and discover more about this extraordinary man, whose many social and political campaigns had far reaching effects that remain with us today. On this website, you will find a wealth of textual material, including Stead's tour de force of Victorian child prostitution, The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon. Covering almost every aspect of his life and career, the WTSRS is today the largest online repository of material on W.T. Stead. (more..)

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The W.T. Stead Conference

Novemeber 9, 2011

This conference marks the centenary of W.T. Stead's death on the Titanic and is the first to commemorate the life and achievements of this remarkable man. It aims to recover his extraordinary influence on English culture from 1870 and, in his spirit, it will investigate the current revolution in newspapers and print journalism in the age of digital news..
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Recent Additions to the WTSRS

Our Death Camps in South Africa
Review of Reviews January, 1902
In South Africa itself the work of slaughtering the fighting men goes on steadily but slowly, while the massacre of the children proceeds with unabated rapidity. The death-rate of these slaughter-camps has scared even Mr. Chamberlain, who evidently feels uneasy at having to answer before the House of Commons for having done to death 11,000 children as a result of his humanitarian effort to minimize the inevitable consequences of our policy of devastation. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's absolutely exact phrase concerning the "methods of barbarism" employed in South Africa has been violently resented by the men responsible for their adoption, but could there be a better justification of the phrase than the fact that our methods were so savage.. more