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Prime Minister Harold MacMillan was the cover star of the 14 September 1963 edition of Horse & Hound, photographed at the Bucks County Show in Aylesbury. The photo was appropriate because these turned out to be the dog days (sorry) of MacMillan’s premiership,...

Such was the dominance of Michael Schumacher and Ferrari back in the early 2000s that on 2 September 2004, Autosport could bring news of the great German sealing his seventh F1 world title, a record since matched by Lewis Hamilton.   Schumacher won his title at...

Has the front cover of any magazine ever offered more promise than TV Times on 22 September 1973?   First, there’s the legendary Fred Trueman, no longer England’s premier fast bowler but instead, the MC of Indoor League, the ‘pub Olympics’ as they were termed,...

Carl Hester returned home from the Pairs Olympics, his seventh for Team GB since his debut in Barcelona in 1992, with another bronze medal safely packed in his luggage as the British team finished third in the dressage competition. That was Hester’s fourth medal,...

Guest columnists are an opportunity for any magazine to freshen things up and long before he became a regular contributor to Rugby World, Frank Keating was in the guest slot from time to time, as in May 1979 when he was there to remark on the final passing of the...

Geoffrey King was the man with the practical helps and hints for the caravan enthusiast in his En Route column and in August 1980, following a breakdown of his own on the M1, he enlisted the help of his AA patrolman to uncover some of the issues that a breakdown might...

Timing is all with a columnist and Autosport certainly hit paydirt when they selected Ferrari’s South African driver Jody Scheckter as their regular scribe for the 1979 F1 season.   Paired with Gilles Villeneuve in the red cars, his glamourous Canadian colleague...

Dave Lanning was a regular writer for TV Times, less a columnist and more of a roving reporter / interviewer. That gave him access to some of the legends of the showbiz world including, in January 1965, the great Peter Sellers.   This was a particular coup given...

For a magazine like Golf Monthly, investing in a current player as a columnist is decidedly dicey territory – what happens if said player hits a slump, can’t make a cut to save his life?   You have to do your research wisely and that was very much the case when...

Time was when a columnist in a magazine or a newspaper needed to be a big name in order to bring in the extra sales to justify the salary being paid him or her.   Then came the idea that an anonymous columnist was better placed to really dish the dirt without...

Although they have died out a little over the years, rare indeed was the 20th century magazine that did not employ an illustrator or cartoonist to illuminate their pages.   The Caravan Club’s En Route magazine chose to go the self-depreciating route in its March...

Autosport has long been renowned for its ability to shine a light on the technical intricacies of motor vehicles, and that scientific approach has long been aided by some remarkable illustrations that take you, quite literally, under the bonnet and beneath the...

A thought provoking illustration on a front cover can speak volumes, though perhaps necessity was the mother of this particular invention from Golf Monthly back in December 1944.   With the war still raging, albeit that an end, of sorts, was gradually coming into...

The use of illustrations has tended to take a more satirical edge as time has gone by and FourFourTwo certainly used that approach in March 2006 when they wanted to illustrate an article on the changing face of football fandom since the arrival of the Premier League...

No discussion of illustration, certainly not regarding the Horse & Hound set, could neglect the influence of Norman Thelwell.   The name immediately conjures up visions of a squadron of little Pony Club members, holding onto their over enthusiastic steeds for...

We turn to the pages of Rugby World, a magazine that turned over a full page to its cartoonist, Naylor.   Having to come up with four funny cartoons or more every month is no easy task, so they could be a bit hit and miss, especially viewed from 54 years...

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...