Case file
H. V. Morton
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “journalist and travel writer from birmingham”. Today it says “journalist and pioneering travel writer from lancashire”.
Measured, not asserted. Every count, date and revision on this page was taken from Wikipedia's own history and checked against the live article. The words quoted are theirs.
Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-03.
We saved snapshots of this article over twenty years; you are reading the October 6, 2023 one. Red dashes: removed from Wikipedia since.
Pale dots: rewritten; the numbered note shows what it says now.
1 tap a number or a side note to jump between them
The opening as it read in October 6, 2023
English-born journalist and travel writer (1892–1979) For other people named Henry Morton, see Henry Morton (disambiguation) . Morton ), (26 July 1892 – 18 June 1979) was a journalist and pioneering travel writer from Lancashire , England . He was best known for his many books on London , Great Britain and the Holy Land . He first achieved fame in 1923 when, while working for the Daily Express , he covered the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamun by Howard Carter .
This is Wikipedia's own text, saved in our repository. Their copy of it is revision 1160498011.
Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “journalist and travel writer from birmingham”. Today it says “journalist and pioneering travel writer from lancashire”. Read the current article and compare.
| 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | Oct '23 | 2025 |
|---|
What Wikipedia says this is
Every article opens by defining its subject. This one was redefined since 2005, and today's defining sentence is their current revision.
Then
journalist and travel writer from birmingham
Now
journalist and pioneering travel writer from lancashire
Struck red text is no longer in the article; dotted amber text was rewritten. Every revision id links to Wikipedia's copy; the text shown is our own saved copy. Data: /data. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA; quoted for the record; not affiliated with Wikipedia.