...a reminder that, to celebrate 190 years of the Guardian (it celebrated the big day on 5th May), we're offering Extra members the chance to win tickets to a private view of an exhibition that showcases 190 moments that have shaped the paper's history.
They include the Peterloo Massacre, which led founder John Edward Taylor to launch the paper in support of political reform; CP Scott's extraordinary 57-year editorship in which he took on the rampant forces of British imperialism during the Boer war and Alastair Hetherington's brave stand during the Suez crisis of 1956 when he called for prime minister Anthony Eden to resign.
Among the exhibits are the centenary issue of 1921 for which Scott wrote a famous essay which laid down the principles under which the Guardian still operates, the first Bedside Guardian published in 1952 and some of Walter Doughty's famous photographs from the Irish civil war in the 1920s. There are also some of Posy Simmonds' early cartoons, the first photograph ever published in the paper and the home page from the first day of Guardian Unlimited in 1999.
The event takes place on Thursday 26 May and the competition closes at midnight on Monday 16 May.
