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In the summer of 1982, the Caravan Club was celebrating its 75th anniversary and around that time, the National Caravan Council commissioned a survey to earn more about ‘Mr & Mrs Average Caravanner’.   Apparently, one million households owned a caravan, the...

Few foreign imports into the British game have had the impact of Dennis Bergkamp, a sublime talent as Arsenal went toe to toe with Manchester United in one of the Premier League’s first great rivalries.   People often forget it was Brice Rioch who took him to...

August 1927 and Golf Monthly rightly celebrates the champion golfer of the age on its front cover, Bobby Jones – for it is he of whom we speak – captured in relaxed mode, helping himself to a gasper.   By then, ‘the wizard golfer’ had won two British and two US...

Turn the clock back to April 1987 and Rugby World was doing some soul searching in the wake of the Five Nations that had, as so often, displayed every facet of the game in the raw, for good and bad.   With the game on the brink of the inaugural World Cup, Rugby...

Horse & Hound isn’t merely a magazine for followers of, well, horses and hounds. All manner of sporting pursuits were covered in its pages, including the absorbing Ashes series of 1902.   ‘In the annals of cricket, the present season will surely be marked...

Autosport might well have made its reputation for reporting on the cutting edge of modern motorsport over these last 74 years, but that is not the full story.   Let’s go back to November 1960, where the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run is captured in its pages,...

Plenty of interviews pack a punch in the moment, but some of the best of all time only get better and better with hindsight – thankfully, you’ve got the Magazine Archive to help you find some of them.   Few interviews cause the jaw to drop as sharply today as the...

There may have been greater golfers – not very many of them mind you – but have there been any as entertaining as Lee Trevino?   Golf Monthly’s September 1990 encounter with the man was understandably entitled ‘The Man Behind The Smile’, and Al Barkow’s portrait...

Are you sitting comfortably? Then we’ll begin. Once upon a time, most sports had a calendar. Some existed in the autumn and winter, others were played in the summer, and there was a brief crossover in the spring.   This meant that it was possible for some...

In October 1982, Horse & Hound was celebrating the success of Lucinda Green, the World Three-Day Event Champion, as well as a regular panellist on BBC’s ‘Question of Sport’.   Giving a rare in-depth interview on her career, which at that point also included...

In May 2010, England’s ‘golden generation’ were readying themselves for the World Cup in South Africa, a tournament where, under the leadership of Fabio Capello, they were going to take the competition by storm…   That had been the idea after an imperious...

For caravan enthusiasts in search of literary inspiration when looking for a fresh destination, the January 2003 issue of the Caravan Club Magazine used the little grey cells to point the way to Devon.   Devon was the source of much inspiration for Agatha...

Ok, we’re stretching things to maintain an Olympian theme here, but anybody who has transported young children on a long journey will know only too well that anyone keeping them entertained deserves a gold medal.   In August 2012, the Caravan Club Magazine...

The importance of the Olympic games has only increased as we have gone through the 21st century, with the exposure, the commercial offshoots and, naturally, the money, that a place at the greatest show on earth can generate.   Rugby World editor Paul Morgan was...

Controversy has surrounded the equestrian events in the run up to Paris with real concerns over animal welfare, but back in 1972, the British team enjoyed real success. There was a gold medal for the team in the horse trials while Richard Meade rode Laurieston to...

Golf has joined the Olympian firmament in recent times and Paris 2024 will be the third consecutive Games at which some of the world’s finest golfers will be chasing a gold medal.   Such a prospect looked a long way off in May 2002, but Golf Monthly still fancied...

While Formula 1 isn’t an Olympic sport – though it would be something to see a Ferrari tearing around the Palace of Versailles – there have been F1 drivers that have excelled at the Games. Take Alex Zanardi for instance, a gold medal winner at both the London...

British football has long had a bumpy relationship with the Olympics, simply because we organise our football as individual nations rather than the collective. Without a GB football team, there has long been no obvious path to the Games, certainly in the men’s game,...

As motor racing has come to become a sport increasingly dominated by sponsorship, more and more companies have got their word out by plastering their name on driver’s race suits or across the cars themselves.   That was much less the case back in May 1953 and so...

Advertising has long been central to the magazine model and Rugby World is no exception – take this example from September 1971.   Featuring the split page beloved of ad sales people and less so of editors, we start with a couple of new rugby boots from Gola. The...