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magazines published in London

  • Empire (magazine)Empire magazine began with a one-page proposal from 1989. Its promise: movies can sometimes be art, but always fun.
  • Kerrang!This rock magazine is named for the crash of a guitar being struck with force. It was never going to be subtle.
  • Mojo (magazine)Mojo magazine put Bob Dylan and John Lennon together on its first cover in 1993.
  • Computer and Video GamesComputer and Video Games became the first UK magazine devoted entirely to video games in November 1981.
  • NMENME was bought for £1,000 just fifteen minutes before it was due to close for good.
  • The Athenaeum (British magazine)The word "Folk-Lore" first appeared in a British magazine, the Athenaeum, in 1846.
  • New HumanistNew Humanist magazine began in 1885 as Watts's Literary Guide. It has been renamed several times since.
  • Tribune (magazine)Tribune magazine once got a rescue deal for one pound. A Labour activist bought a 51% stake in 2008.
  • History TodayHistory Today magazine was founded in London in January 1951. Wartime Minister of Information Brendan Bracken backed it.
  • Vanity Fair (magazine)Vanity Fair magazine began as a men's fashion title called Dress. Condé Montrose Nast bought and renamed it in 1913.
  • New ScientistNew Scientist magazine first went on sale in 1956 for one shilling.
  • Philosophy NowFamed atheist philosopher Antony Flew signaled a change on God in a 2004 Philosophy Now letter.
  • The Strand MagazineReaders once queued outside the London offices of The Strand Magazine, waiting for the next installment of a single serial. The Strand Magazine was a British monthly that mixed short fiction with articles on general subjects. It ran for…
  • The World Today (magazine)The World Today magazine replaced a bulletin in 1945 as the war ended. It was meant for more than specialists.

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