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magazines published in London

  • Empire (magazine)Empire magazine was born from a single confident sentence. In 1989, a one-page proposal circulated at Emap declared: "Empire believes that movies can…
  • Kerrang!Kerrang! takes its name from a sound: the onomatopoeic crash of a guitar being struck with force. That name captures something essential about the magazine's…
  • Mojo (magazine)Mojo magazine launched on the 15th of October 1993 with Bob Dylan and John Lennon sharing its very first cover. That choice was a statement of intent.
  • Computer and Video GamesComputer and Video Games landed on British newsstands in November 1981, the first magazine in the United Kingdom dedicated entirely to video games.
  • NMENME was bought for £1,000, just fifteen minutes before it was due to close for good. That was 1952, when a London music promoter named Maurice Kinn spotted a…
  • The Athenaeum (British magazine)The Athenæum was a British literary magazine that spent nearly a century shaping how readers in London thought about books, music, art, and the very idea of…
  • New HumanistC. A. Watts founded a publication called Watts's Literary Guide in November 1885. This quarterly magazine began as a small venture focused on literature and…
  • Tribune (magazine)In early 1937, two wealthy Labour Party Members of Parliament named Sir Stafford Cripps and George Strauss established Tribune to back the Unity Campaign.
  • History TodayBrendan Bracken launched History Today in January 1951. He served as former Minister of Information before the magazine began.
  • Vanity Fair (magazine)Vanity Fair magazine began not as the polished cultural institution it would become, but as a men's fashion magazine called Dress.
  • New ScientistNew Scientist hit newsstands for the first time on the 22nd of November 1956, priced at one shilling. Three men were behind it: Tom Margerison, Max Raison…
  • Philosophy NowRick Lewis launched Philosophy Now in May 1991 from his home town of Ipswich, England. The first issue appeared as a quarterly magazine and featured an…
  • The Strand MagazineGeorge Newnes launched The Strand Magazine in 1890, placing the first issue on sale before Christmas of that year. The initial print run sold nearly 300,000…
  • The World Today (magazine)The World Today has been landing on the desks of diplomats, parliamentarians, and chief executives since 1945. It is a quarterly global affairs magazine…