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

I think Jackie, then the women’s weekly ones. I liked Good Food magazine.
Id get them now but they are just too expensive. I listen to podcasts mainly now.

In age order, though some simultaneously:
Twinkle
Pony
Just seventeen
Smash Hits
Your Horse
Horse and Rider
Marie Claire
House and Garden
Country Life
Cat World
Your Cat
Intelligent Horsemanship

Early 80s Tammy. Eldest sister got Jackie.

Late 80s nme

Late 90's Pc format I think and another web magazine.

Now Occasionally private eye but not often.

In roughly chronological order from the mid-70s onwards: Twinkle, Bunty, Look & Learn, Jackie, Cheeky, Smash Hits, NME/Melody Maker, Cosmo, Image (Irish fashion mag), RTE Guide (Irish TV guide), Ideal Home.

I only buy Ideal Home now, a couple of times a year, usually before a flight.

No wonder the Fortean Times stopped publishing if I was the only one to buy it (I think they still have a website)

Frank!

OMG - how amazing it was. If I’d known it would end I would have treasured every copy. I think amongst piles of stuff I haven’t touched for about three house moves I still have the odd fashion page torn out.

(I was still tearing pages out of magazines in the early 2000s - an enthralling compendium of breathtaking excellence. But my mother laughed at me - so I stopped. Now I just have images saved on Evernote - which is rubbish by comparison.)

I feel a little foolish about the fact that

The Economist
Private Eye
Various travel and outdoor and especially cycling mags

clearly made so little impression on me that I didn’t include them in my list - even though I’ve subscribed to each at some point. (And still read them intermittently online.)

As an undergraduate

Decanter

somehow became important for a while.

Also, for several years I used to pick up the

Hermes journal

every season. Always free in stores despite ostensibly being for sale. I loved them very much - and am astonished to see old volumes for sale online for upwards of £50 each. I still have mine. I guess it’s a consequence of having shopped mostly online for 20 years that I don’t pick up brand / designer journals any more.

Acne Studios

was often worthwhile.

And all non UK Vogue editions still only really exist for me in print - but I see them much less now.

Really splendid thread, @Shetlands - thank you. ♥️

Twinkle
Jackie
Woman/Womans Own

Your Cat
Your Horse
Horse and Rider

BBC History
History Revealed
All About History

Dandy

just seventeen (read on the school bus no way I’d have been allowed it)

new scientist
national geographic

ooh but my fav was one my grandma used to have with serial stories in. It was sort of like a small book. Can’t remember what it was called.

Mizz and Shout in the late 90s
Top of the Pops and Smash Hits early 00s
Just 17 and Heat magazine c. 2005
Various nursing / medical journals from 2005 - 2010
Toyed with Green Parent in 2010 / 11 but found it a bit self righteous.

Have loved Take A Break, Pick Me Up etc throughout. Aged 9 reading massively inappropriate stories about affairs, murder etc. Happy days.

Bunty, mizz, sugar, shout, smash hits, j17, kerrang, heat and closer were my regulars! I definitely read others and recognise loads on other peoples lists as me and my friend would get different ones and then swap.

Now I just read the free Tesco magazine. Exciting stuff.

Aww this is making me sad as my mum died a year ago and I have such lovely memories of her bringing me back a magazine when she went shopping when I was young - especially if I was poorly. She used to get herself Prima.
I used to read
Twinkle
Tammy and Misty
Jackie
Just Seventeen
Girl
Mizz
More
Cosmo
Top Model
Looks
Allure
Then the obvious Elle, Red, Marie-Claire, Grazia
Still love a magazine - but they’re so expensive now - £6 average!

Can't believe no one has mentioned Hi!
From the late 80s/90s I think

Oh sorry the post just above mine has!

Late 90s early 2000s J17, sugar, Melody Maker, NME.

Early to mid 2000s vogue or Elle. I liked the very occasional Chat or Take a Break like my aunties used to read.

Haven't really bought any since.

First - Twinkle
Then - all of the comics, Beano, Dandy, Nutty, Marvel, DC and whatever random ones my big brother thought I might like (so mostly random imported American ones), any special editions linked to new films he was going to take me to see.
My mother's Slimming World, Slimmer and whatever other dysfunctional 'I ate bugger all and my marriage fell apart in the process, but look at me, I'm slim now' things as she'd decided I was too fat.
My mother's Prima and Bella magazines for the craft stuff.
Guitar magazines with decent tab in them.
Assorted bodybuilding ones.
New Woman, Cosmo if they had a decent gift, Marie Claire, Elle.
Then there was a gap when I didn't have the money for such things (and I'd had to sell the guitar) beyond the odd pregnancy one just to freak me out about how rubbish I was, Junior to realise I was just hopelessly inadequate and, like War Games, the only way to win was not to play.
Occasional gardening magazines if there was a worthwhile gift.
Country living when bored
Couple of wedding magazines. Abandoned that idea pretty sharpish.
Trail running, running.

These days? None.

You must lead a very sheltered life then!

Twinkle
Mandy/Bunty
Commando and other such things that were supposed to be for boys
Jackie
Kerrang
Various daft bridal mags
New scientist and Nat Geo
Various cooking/craft/homemaking ones

Now, I occasionally buy a cooking, gardening or nature one mainly because I like looking at recipes and pictures of beautiful things🙄

I missed out Bunty

Loved my Bunty, I've spent years looking for an annual or even an issue with my most favourite story ever. Little Nellie Nobody

Could it have been Readers Digest that your grandma liked? That was like a small book. A mix of fiction, non-fiction and puzzles. I never bought it but always picked it up in the Drs waiting room.

MAD (I lived in the US)
Jackie
Melody Maker/NME
Motorcycle News
Pravda
Private Eye (and ever since the 1980s)

Pravda? Are you Russian or were you just interested?

Fab 208 was my absolute favourite of all time.
I also read Jackie and My Guy.
Then moved onto Smash Hits and Melody Maker.

Oh then Viz.

Late 90s/early 2000s - Learning Is Fun magazine 😅
Mid 2000s - Girl Talk
Late 2000s - Mizz, Shout

I don't think I read magazines from about 2010 until I was pregnant with DD in 2013. Then it was Mother & Baby and Gurgle magazines all the way!
In the run up to my wedding in 2016 I read lots of wedding magazines.

Haven't really read magazines since then other than occasionally picking up Amateur Photographer. They're so expensive these days!