The Guardian Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====C. P. Scott==== [[C. P. Scott]] made the newspaper nationally recognised. He was editor for 57 years from 1872, and became its owner when he bought the paper from the estate of Taylor's son in 1907. Under Scott, the paper's moderate editorial line became more radical, supporting [[William Ewart Gladstone|William Gladstone]] when the Liberals split in 1886, and opposing the [[Second Boer War]] against popular opinion.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Hampton, Mark|year=2011|title=The Press, Patriotism, and Public Discussion: C. P. Scott, the "Manchester Guardian", and the Boer War, 1899β1902|journal=The Historical Journal|volume=44|number=1|pages=177β197|jstor=3133966|doi=10.1017/S0018246X01001479|s2cid=159550361}}</ref> Scott supported the movement for [[women's suffrage]], but was critical of any tactics by the [[Suffragettes]] that involved [[direct action]]:<ref name="suffragettes">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2007/nov/13/research.highereducation |title=Unladylike behaviour |work=The Guardian |location=London |date=13 November 2007 |access-date=28 July 2009 |publisher=Guardian News and Media |last=Purvis |first=June |author-link=June Purvis |archive-date=6 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006010805/http://www.theguardian.com/education/2007/nov/13/research.highereducation |url-status=live }}</ref> "The really ludicrous position is that [[David Lloyd George|Mr Lloyd George]] is fighting to enfranchise seven million women and the militants are smashing unoffending people's windows and breaking up benevolent societies' meetings in a desperate effort to prevent him." Scott thought the Suffragettes' "courage and devotion" was "worthy of a better cause and saner leadership".<ref>Quoted in David Ayerst, ''The Guardian'', 1971, p. 353.</ref> It has been argued that Scott's criticism reflected a widespread disdain, at the time, for those women who "transgressed the gender expectations of [[Edwardian era|Edwardian society]]".<ref name="suffragettes"/> Scott commissioned [[J. M. Synge]] and his friend [[Jack Yeats]] to produce articles and drawings documenting the social conditions of the west of Ireland; these pieces were published in 1911 in the collection ''Travels in Wicklow, West Kerry and Connemara''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Arnold |first=Bruce |title=To the waters and the wild |newspaper=[[Irish Independent]] |location=Dublin |date=27 November 2012 |url=http://www.independent.ie/incoming/to-the-waters-and-the-wild-26527736.html |access-date=4 June 2014 |archive-date=6 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606223923/http://www.independent.ie/incoming/to-the-waters-and-the-wild-26527736.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Scott's friendship with [[Chaim Weizmann]] played a role in the [[Balfour Declaration]]. In 1948 ''The Manchester Guardian'' was a supporter of the new State of Israel.{{Citation needed|date=October 2021}} Ownership of the paper passed in June 1936 to the [[Scott Trust]] (named after the last owner, [[John Russell Scott]], who was the first chairman of the Trust). This move ensured the paper's independence.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/the-scott-trust |title=The Scott Trust |work=The Guardian |access-date=2 September 2018 |archive-date=2 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180902165323/https://www.theguardian.com/the-scott-trust |url-status=live }}</ref>{{Additional citation needed|date=October 2021}} From 1930 to 1967, a special archival copy of all the daily newspapers was preserved in 700 [[zinc]] cases. These were found in 1988 whilst the newspaper's archives were deposited at the [[University of Manchester]]'s [[John Rylands University Library]], on the Oxford Road campus. The first case was opened and found to contain the newspapers issued in August 1930 in pristine condition. The zinc cases had been made each month by the newspaper's plumber and stored for posterity. The other 699 cases were not opened and were all returned to storage at ''The Guardian''{{'}}s garage, owing to shortage of space at the library.<ref>Taylor, Geoffrey (11 April 1988) "Bowled over by treasures at the bottom of the zinc"; ''The Guardian''</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page