What's your magazine history?

[Shetlands]

Mumsnet has a wide age range so I was wondering which magazines have featured in your lives at various stages. I don't mean the magazines that you might pick up at the Dentist but which ones you have actually bought regularly. Here's mine:

Early 1960s - Bunty
Late 1960s - Petticoat
1970s - Cosmopolitan
1980s & 1990s - Good Housekeeping, Various House/garden mags
2000s onwards - Country Living, Ideal Home, Private Eye

Jackie &19 (80’s)
more viz (90’s)
heat, Marie Clare 2000s
I did have a spell of being hooked on those awful true life stories in things like take a beak.

Oh my God, I forgot Sky! There was an agony aunt, wasn’t there? An American called Karen and a really long surname. They always had brilliant photos and I’d use them to decorate my folders at school. I always had kids asking me where I’d got them from.

And Twinkle! How could I have forgotten Twinkle?!

Beano
Bunty
June and Schoolfriend
Jackie
Just Seventeen
Vanity Fair
Harper’s Bazaar
Cosmopolitan
Marie Claire
Prima

Soooo many!
My parents ran a newsagents shop when I was growing up and I used to borrow the comics and magazines then put them back once I'd read them!
Bunty, Twinkle, Whizzer and Chips, Dandy, Mindy
Jackie( my absolute favourite!),My Guy, Blue Jeans, Patches, Just 17, More, Smash Hits, No.1, The Face, NME..
As I got older...Chat!, that's life,take a break,
Closer,Company,Cosmopolitan...
Now I'm in my 50s....Woman's Weekly- only because my Mum passes it on to me- Country Living...'cos that's my dream..and the occasional Woman's Own. They're so expensive now though!

OP, what a lovely thread, thank you 🙂

Bliss
Sugar
Mizz
Smash Hits
More!

80s
Smash hits
Number one
Jackie
Mizz
More
Just 17

90s
Take a break
Bella
That's life
Heat

Can't remember the last time I bought a magazine...years....

70's & early 80's- twinkle, whizzer & chips, Bunty
80's - mizz, just seventeen, smash hits
90's -nme, melody maker
90s up to current day - true crime

Omg how did I miss Bliss and Mizz off my list! Very disappointed with myself 😭

Mandy/Tracey
Blue Jeans/My Guy
More/Mizz
Just 17 which was swapped with my pal who got Smash Hits
Bella
Best
Take A Break
That's Life
Closer
Heat

I used to spend a fortune on magazines

Grew up in the 80s/90s...regularly read Whizzer & Chips, Beano, Dandy, Smash Hits, TV Hits, Just Seventeen, Mizz, More, The Face, Empire, NME, Company, Cosmopolitan, Heat, Marie Claire, Elle. I used to buy pretty much every issue of all of those (I was magazine-mad in my teens and early twenties!)

More recently Red, Good Housekeeping, Which, but haven't bought any magazines for a long time now.

80s...

Barbie magazine when it came with something free (I remember getting a record stuck to the front once)

Then Smash Hits (for the posters)

Then stuff like Just 17/J17 and maybe something like Mizz. I can't really remember them very well.

The Melody Maker and NME and Q if there was a good interview in it.

The Face and some other design ones (for a-levels) - I never really got them.

Glamour, Vogue, Psychologies

Ideal Home and Gardeners World

Lots of newspaper supplements over the years.

Nothing now that can't be read online.

90s-early 2000s: J17, Smash Hits, Teen Vogue (American one), seventeen, TIMES (my parents bought it religiously), Nat Geo at school, The Australian Women's Weekly
2000s: Dazed & Confused, various skateboarding ones depending on content, apartamento, Stylist and Shortlist when it was handed out on street corners, The Big Issue
Now: The Simple Things, Stylist, House & Garden, The New Scientist, Tesco's free magazine

Late 70’s - Jackie and Blue Jeans
80’s - Just 17 and Smash Hits
Late 80’s - Elle, Vogue, Marie Claire, Company, Cosmo
90’s - same, then introduced Harper’s, Tatler & Red
Same in the noughties and introduced Glamour & Grazia
(Also then worked in a role for many years where magazines were a part of my job and were paid for. Also had to plough through weeklies like Heat, Closer and Now, which were grim!)
Now - Grazia, Red, Harper’s and Vogue now I pay for them. Keep meaning to cancel Vogue as it doesn’t feel like there’s much in it. I really, really love reading a physical magazine so much. Yes, I know there’s a lot online but the sheer joy of opening a magazine never leaves me.
Perhaps because I worked ‘around’ them for so long I got to see behind the magic curtain a bit, and they are businesses. So they do have content and a point of view and are mainly there to sell you stuff. And that often means selling dreams alongside, which can make you feel a bit rubbish if you get too involved.

@WilfredsPies the SKY mag agony aunt was Karen Krizanovich.

Oooh, lots

Late 70s - first one I can remember, I think it was called Look In, pop music based.
Then:
Smash Hits from when it launched - the excitement!
Jackie

Record Mirror
NME/Melody Maker - occasional
Cosmo - occasional
Marie Claire - occasional
Red - occasional
Viz
BBC Good Food - my mum bought me a subscription when I bought my first house in the 90s, she’s still paying for that one
New Scientist - occasional
My professional bodies both issue magazines which I do at least glance through
Which? - been a subscriber for years but really only glance through and use the app for info.
RHS magazine - comes with membership.

I can’t remember when I last bought one in a shop, I sometimes buy a Christmas Good Housekeeping or similar but TBH I never make any of the things in it and shouldn’t waste the money. I ditched the Christmas Radio Times for good this year after putting the previous year’s one in the recycling without even having looked at it. I do stop and look at them all in the supermarket.

Actually I buy Private Eye and The Week occasionally but probably less than once a year each.

1980's - Twinkle, Beano, Girl, Smash Hits, Just 17. Mizz

1990's: More, Cosmopolitan, occasionally Woman's own, Red... Hello, I can't think of any more but there were others...

2000's - home magazines, wedding magazines then parenting magazines..,

I don't buy any now, but used to spend lots on them!!

Also completely forgot

Harpers and Queen - from 20s onwards until they dropped ‘and Queen’. It somehow changed after that.

And really, this century, just as much as Vogue I’ve been hugely influenced by the FT’s

HTSI mag. (Formerly How To Spend It.)

It justifies at least half the cost of my FT subscription and makes for the best Saturday mornings, disappearing down endless rabbit holes of extravagant newness. I keep meaning to return to the print version - gorgeous to read and the accompanying newspaper used to make the best Christmas wrapping paper.

@getahhtmapub Thank you! I remember thinking it sounded very sophisticated at the time 😁

@QuaterMiss Agreed on HTSI! Years ago I had a regular who would always leave me the FT and that was the best, indulgent read, I'd sit there with my meal deal planning which watch or silk wallpaper to buy next

Oh my goodness what great replies!

Some of you are my daughter's age (40s) so it's been a blast from the past remembering the various girls' mags strewn across her bedroom!

Going back to Jackie Magazine, there was a centrefold page which was a poster and we used to plaster them over our bedroom walls (one of you mentioned that and I'd forgotten it). I was allowed to do it if I pinned them to my wallpaper with dressmaking pins. I can recall in my early teens having Herman's Hermits, The Beatles, Cilla Black and Gerry & The Pacemakers. They were then replaced with less wholesome looking people with beards and long hair, and my Mum was horrified when I pinned up Jackie's poster of 'The Pretty Things'. 😂

I then progressed to Petticoat magazine when I was about 15/16 and stuck with that until moving on to Cosmopolitan in the early 1970s when about 20.

Nobody else has mentioned Petticoat, which surprises me as I thought it was very popular. I loved the fashions (Biba!) and it always seemed so modern and grown up.

Why even comment? You are a rude, negative and unnecessary.

More
GQ or Red
Wallpaper
FourFourTwo
Olive (food)
The economist

Eclectic mix...

Oh how could I have forgotten my other magazine of the 1970s - Spare Rib!

I was introduced to it about 1974 by a Barrister whose daughter I used to babysit when I was a student. She was inspirational and provided me with lots of opportunities to network with some amazing people.

There were some fabulous cartoons in Spare Rib and this one was a favourite among my friends of 50 years ago! Damn it - can't find it online. It's a little girl asking her mother "What's an orgasm Mum?" Mum replies, "How should I know? Ask your father!" Trust me it was funny then. 😂

Fab thread! I started with twinkle, graduated to Bunty and then to Misty. Cosmo through my teens and then on to the glossy mags. Now it’s more likely to be homes and garden ones as well as fashion.

All the magazines I read now are for free. With the Libby app and a library card you have access to hundreds of titles. People don’t seem to know about it, so spread the word! (@19751974P )