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

Beano & Fast Forward in the 80s
Just 17, Mizz, Smash Hits, and Sugar in the early 90s
More in the late 90s
Red and Glamour in the early 2000s

Then I stopped due to cost, but now I have a Readly subscription which I can’t recommend enough. It’s £10 a month and you get access to loads of mags. So every month on my iPad I read Good Housekeeping, Woman & Home, Runners World, Women’s Running, Platinum, Red, Olive, Good Food, Women’s Health & the Sainsbury’s magazine!

@Shetlands Just interested.

Oh god I could be here a while...

Late 80s: Sort sort of Playdays magazine that used to feature Postman Pat.

Early-mid 90s: Fast Forward, Bunty, Girl Talk.

Mid-late 90s: Sugar, Bliss, Shout, Smash Hits, Big!

2000 & 2010s: B, New Woman, Heat, Closer, Cosmopolitan, Glamour.

Now: Red and Good Housekeeping.

Childhood - Miss, Shout, Girl Talk, Sabrina and S Club with the box things
Teenage - Sugar, Bliss, Cosmo Girl, More, Smash Hits
Late teens and twenties - Cosmo, Company, Daphne’s Diary, Simple Things, Oh Comley, Glamour, Marie Claire, Grazia

I used to love a good magazine!

Still love magazines, always have!

Regularly read these, my life growing up with magazines went ....

Twinkle
Blue Jeans
Hi!
Patches
Just Seventeen
TV Hits
Mizz
More

Nowadays it's more

Prima
Take A Break and That's Life

J17
Mizz
Shout
I used to sneak my older sisters mags, More, Smash Hits, Big, Cosmopolitan etc.
More mag was a bit saucy, I probably shouldn’t have been reading it tbh!

Have remembered another, from early-ish childhood, maybe 6 - 8 - no idea of the name but it was a weekly thing with cut-out dolls and a range of cut-out clothes to dress them in. (Possibly not actually cut-out, more push out of the page?)

Epically wonderful at the time!

Bunty
Judy
Diana
Jackie
Petticoat
Honey
17
19
I remember my sister who was eight. years older than me, reading Romeo and Mirabelle in the early 60s

Oh … Romeo? Do you know I think I may very vaguely remember that. If it was on the shelves in the newsagent’s I would have been too embarrassed to ask either of my parents for it, or even probably to have bought it with pocket money. But I may have seen copies at friends’ houses, or at school.

Gen X mid-70s baby. In roughly chronological order:

Bunty and Twinkle
Girl, Look In
Smash hits, number one
Just Seventeen, 19
Sky, NME
More, Company, Cosmopolitan
Marie Claire, Red
Grazia and various interior mags

Bloody loved Sky magazine, so cool but not as up itself as The Face. I wish I'd kept my copies, I must have had every edition from 1989-1992. @WilfredsPies it was Karen Krizanovich who wrote the advice column.

80s - Twinkle
90s: Acne Comic, then BiG, Smash Hits, Just 17,
NME, Select, Mizz, More, Melody Maker.
Used to love reading my Mum’s copies of She Magazine and my Nana’s Woman, Woman’s Own, Women’s Realm, Readers’ Digest and the People’s Friend
00s: Cosmo, Company, Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire, Glamour and the revival of Nova Magazine. Take a Break and Love It as they were always so funny.
Then Pyschologies.

There’s a magazine I had a subscription to which I loved, then it went out of circulation and they started sending me Grazia magazine instead. I cannot remember it’s name.

@ Quatermass, I remember my sister ironing a transfer onto a cotton hankie that were given away inside copies of Romeo! I seem to vaguely recall the transfer was a guitar and musical notes.

Late 80s / early 90s - Funday Times, Discovery (one of those weekly things that was meant to form a collection)

Early 90s - Fast Forward, The Dandy (never really liked it, only had a subscription because my brother had one to the Beano), various magazines about horses

Mid- to late 90s - Bliss, Sugar, More, etc. Bought for me by my mum when I was ill. Love-hate relationship. Also Kerrang.

Early noughties - Bizarre, Olive, Taste Italia

…

Now - Ancient History

Dandy
Beano
Pony
Horse and hound
Flyer
Pilot
Traveller
Lonely planet
Wanderlust
Empire
Interiors
Olive
Delicious

I'd forgotten about Look In - wasn't allowed to watch ITV as a child so this was highly subversive!

What an interesting question! I have loved magazines for as long as I can remember. My auntie worked in a paper shop and started me off when I was in nursery school
Twinkle and the Disney one with the red masthead
Primary school , Mandy and Judy
High school Blue Jeans (won £5.00 crossword prize once!)
Jackie and Patches (?)
Just 17
In my 20s She and Cosmopolitan Readers Digest passed in from my dad.
Good Housekeeping subscriber between age of 19 and 53 when it seemed to get rather repetitive somehow.
Now I take Private Eye and The Lady.

80's - The Beano
90's - Just Seventeen, Mizz, Company, NME
and Private Eye (thought I was v-grown up reading this one!). Occasionally my Mums Elle Deco and Good Housekeeping
2000's - Vogue, Jane (loved this, maybe a US one?), the odd Heat, some naff crafty mags for a while.
Nowadays - Occasional v-expensive interiors mag like House and Gardens, loads for the kids, the Phoenix, Aquila, rip-off mags with toys and full-circle back to The Beano!

Love this thought.

The early 80’s was Bunty.
late 80’s I graduated to Jackie
late 90’s Mizz, and what was the one with position of the fortnight that we all used to gawp over in secondary school?
2000’s - Marie claire

something I realised when writing this response is that I have had a Farmers weekly on my kitchen table every Friday for the last 45 years!!!

90s - Smash Hits, Big, More, Just 17
00s - Cosmopolitan, Red, Vogue

Fell out with them for a bit

These days - 220Triathlon and Mountain Biking UK

1970s Twinkle
1980s Mandy
Smash Hits
No. 1
Shoot
1990s Sky
The Face
2000s Peppa Pig

2020s Peppa Pig (DGC)

90s Mizz And Girl Talk
00s Heat and Vogue

now I subscribe to Waterways World and Delicious alongside industry specialist magazine - Natural Stone Specialist

1970s - Twinkle
1980s- Beano (chosen by my dad, I expect). Horse and Pony. Girl. Jackie. Smash Hits.
1990s- Horse and Hound. Your Horse. Marie Claire. NME. Cosmo.
2000s- OK. Hello. Homes and Gardens. (Rarely bought, they were in the magazine racks onboard when I was cabin crew!) Horse and Hound. Eventing.
Nowadays- Horse and Hound (if going to watch a big event). BBC Good Food (occasionally) TV Times at Xmas (am always aghast at the cost!). Lots of Mumsnet type crap instead!

90s - Shout, Smash Hits, kerrang! Melody Maker and NME.

00s - Still Kerrang and Melody Maker, then Marie Claire, Cosmo, Vogue.

Later 00s often bought Sainsburys magazine along with Vogue.

I used to buy a music/lifestyle magazine called Sleazenation and having just googled it, it was not a magazine aimed at 15/16 year old girls!

Oh and sometimes Harpers Bazaar.

I'd like to get a regular magazine again now, just don't know what I want.

70s Bunty
80s Jackie and Patches
90s cosmo
00s cosmo Grazia
now - Good Food!