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

Did anyone else write to 'Cathy & Claire'? 😳
I always suspected they didn't exist and it was confirmed years later it was the office staff.
My problem wasn't printed, but I received a lovely typed response - which my bloody mum read 🤨--

Robin was the one for small children.
Judy, and my sister had Bunty
School Friend
Sometimes bought Jackie, but I don't think I had it regularly.
I think there was one called Fab208 - the Radio Luxembourg mag.
Record Mirror and NME
Woman's Weekly - overlapped with Record Mirror!
At some point I think I had History Today for a while
Then I think there was quite a long period when I didn't have any mags.
Then c.1988-90 when I got my first Amstrad word processor, I had the mag for that for a while.
Had BBC Gardener's World for a while
Read People's Friend, because my neighbour had it and passed it on to me, then she stopped getting it.

Possibly others I've forgotten.
Don't have anything now.

80s - The Dandy and Beano
Early 90s - Bliss, Mizz, J17 moving on to Cosmo (I can remember the man at the Post Office telling me I was too young for these)
Mid to late 90s - Elle, Marie Claire, Vogue, Glamour also I remember a weekly (I think) magazine called Look that I used to love maybe a bit earlier than the rest.

I moved on to Red, Grazia, Women and Home, Prima anything and everything. I used to be obsessed with magazines, counting down the days until they were out. I was just thinking about it the other day. I have Apple News now and don’t really bother much with them.

Twinkle
Tufty Club magazine
Jackie
Smash Hits
NME
World
Hello 🫢
Empire
Good Food
Home and Garden
The Week
Spectator

I get them all free online through my local library now.

Twinkle
Beano
Whizzer and Chips
Judy
Smash Hits
Look in occasionally but not as good as Smash Hits
Just 17
More
New Scientist
New Woman - fantastic magazine
Glamour
Guardian Society supplement
Sky magazine - ladette era magazine
Heat

After that , random selection of Bella/Best/woman's own
Woman and Home occasionally
Zest

Now just read the lifestyle sections of online news websites

Oh how could I have forgotten More! It was banned in our high school due to it's saucy content so someone used to smuggle it in and we'd huddle round it in the loos at lunchtime. Simpler, pre smartphone times 😂.

I loved Hi! I had it on subscription from the newsagents.

Before that I read Twinkle and The Beano.
Then I had Hi! I did read Jackie, but I only had the annuals from memory. I definitely also was partial to Sindy (was that a magazine?? - I remember having the annuals as well). The occasional J17.
Then in my mid-teens I love Vogue, More and Cosmo.
After that I'd read Red, Marie-Claire, Elle, Glamour and Vogue.
Now I like History Today, Private Eye, London Review of Books and House & Garden.

Just remembered Look and Learn. It wasn't one I chose, I think my mum just ordered it alongside our Bunty and Judy because it was educational. But it was quite good, there was a lot of reading in it.

80s Bunty and the Brownie
90s Hi for girls, Guide magazine, more and mizz and kerrang
2000s cosmo, glamour and vogue and girlguiding magazine, occasionally Empire.
2010s empire magazine and vogue and my guilty pleasure of Tattler!

Twinkle/Bunty
Misty
Jackie
Horse and Pony/Dogs Today
Metal Hammer/Kerrang
Dogs Today again

Haven't bought a magazine for years now though.

Oh, and New Scientist!

God I miss magazines! Especially loved the late 90s/early 2000s and remember Glamour and all the great free gifts you used to get, such as a full sized benefit lip gloss! Loved Girl Talk, Mizz, Smash Hits as I was growing up and then Look, Company, More, Cosmopolitan, Red, and as I got older I had a subscription to Top Sante. I always used to have a massive pile of recycling as I used to spend a fortune on mags!

The only one I have read lately is Top Sante but that isn't the same, it feels a lot thinner and less articles in. I find it really sad that magazines are dying out. It's not the same reading things online, sitting with a magazine for an hour used to be my me time and it was a lot more relaxing than just scrolling on your phone.

I also remember an amazing storyteller magazine from the 80s which came with cassette tapes - I can still remember Richard Briers reading an extract from Wind in the Willows.

I can remember a girl in my class attacking another girl because she thought the girl had written to ‘Cathy and Claire’ about her! To be fair, when we all read it, it did feel accurate but the chances of that are slim.
I can remember Jackie magazine came out on a Wednesday.
My dad had a job which enabled him to be home at lunch time. Every Wednesday he would get it for me and a jam tart from a local bakery.
I would run home, have a flick through my magazine, have lunch and then scoff my jam tart during ‘The Cedar Tree’ and then ‘The Sullivans’ and it holds such a special memory for me.
I would then plan all afternoon which article I was going to read first.
I used to get one particular magazine via my dad’s newsagent right up until he died. It was once a month and I would call in and he would say ‘Your comic is there!’ and it was such a kind tradition.
Still get it now, from the same shop, even though I don’t really need to. Just feels familiar!

Bunty
Wild about animals (anyone else remember this one?)
Horse and Hound (I loved horses and ponies)

Just 17
Shout
Mizz
BBC Music magazine (loved the free CDs)
Bliss (loved the free books especially the Diving In Series)
Sugar
Cosmogirl
Cosmopolitan
Company
Vogue
Elle

Gramophone (another classical music mag)

I still buy Hola when I’m on holiday in Spain. I find it so glam!

Does anyone have a first edition of Prima? There was a recipe for a wonderful triple chocolate torte (biscuit base, mouse middle, ganache top and grated chocolate). Have tried to recreate it without success!