Quiz Monkey |
1961–3 (ousted by his successor; died in 2019, aged 81) | Christopher Booker | |
1963–86 | Richard Ingrams | |
1986 to date | Ian Hislop |
Beardie | Richard Branson | |
Brenda | The Queen | |
Brian | Prince Charles | |
The Dirty Digger | Rupert Murdoch | |
Yvonne | Princess Margaret |
"Tight–lipped, ashen–faced", perennially 59–year–old "supremo" of Neasden FC | Ron Knee |
Time on the clock on the masthead of The Times (said to be the time when the last edition went to press, in its early days) | 4.30 | |
Bought the Daily Express in 1916; launched the Sunday Express in 1918; acquired the London Evening Standard in 1923 | William Maxwell Aitken (Lord Beaverbrook) | |
New York publisher: publications include a magazine about books and literature, founded in 1903 as The Booklovers Magazine; a journal of literature, science, and arts, founded in 1869; and the travel guide used by Michael Portillo in Great American Railroad Journeys, first published in the 1840s (the US equivalent to Bradshaw's) | D. Appleton & Co. | |
The BBC's in–house magazine: launched in 1936, went digital only in 2011; named after one of the two figures (both from Shakespeare's The Tempest) in the controversial sculpture by Eric Gill that stands over the entrance to Broadcasting House | Ariel | |
Official newspaper of the Italian Socialist Party, 1896–1993; edited by Benito Mussolini (immediately before World War I) | Avanti! | |
German publisher of travel guide books, founded in 1827 | Baedeker | |
BBC magazine with World Service listings | BBC Worldwide | |
Founder of the New York Herald newspaper (1835); handed over to his son, of the same name, in 1866. (See also Language: Phrases and Sayings) | James Gordon Bennett (Sr.) | |
"Midi" size adopted by The Guardian in September 2005 and The Observer in January 2006 (both changed to tabloid format in January 2018) | Berliner | |
Washington Post journalists who exposed Watergate and wrote All the President's Men | Carl Bernstein | |
Bob Woodward | ||
Founded in 1991 by John Bird and Gordon Roddick – inspired by Street News, a newspaper sold by homeless people in New York | The Big Issue | |
Publisher of the Harry Potter books | Bloomsbury | |
British company, claims to be the world's largest publisher of sheet music; also manufactured instruments, up to 2003 | Boosey & Hawkes | |
Co–founder of Spare Rib magazine and Virago Press, editor of the Independent on Sunday, appointed editor of the Independent in 1998 | Rosie Boycott | |
The Telegraph & Argus, founded in 1868, is a daily newspaper serving (English city) | Bradford | |
The first railway timetable – published regularly from 1839; enjoyed a resurgence of popuarity as a consequence of frequent references in the BBC television series Great British Railway Journeys (from 2010); became a surprise best–seller in 2011, when the 1863 edition, as used by Michael Portillo in the series, was republished as a facsimile | Bradshaw's Guide | |
Published the first edition of his Dictionary of Phrase and Fable in 1870 (20th edition published in 2018) | Rev. E. Cobham Brewer | |
Founder of Virago Press | Carmen Callil | |
Editor of the News of the World, from 1891 (when he was 24 years old), until his death in 1941; knighted in 1918 for his charitable work in support of soldiers captured during World War I; his name was given to a one–mile race that was set up by his son in 1953 and has been held annually ever since | Emsley Carr | |
Weekly Socialist newspaper, founded in Manchester in 1891 by Robert Blatchford and Alexander M. Thompson | The Clarion | |
Founder and editor of The Political Register, a newspaper that was published weekly from 1802 until shortly after his death in 1835 | William Cobbett | |
New York–based magazine empire, publisher of Vogue, Vanity Fair and GQ (among many others) – named after its 1909 founder | Condé Nast | |
Magazine remodelled and re–invented in the 1960s by Helen Gurley Brown | Cosmopolitan | |
First came to notice as writers of the Bon Viveur column in the Daily Telegraph, 1950–5 | Fanny & Johnny Cradock | |
Standard reference work published by the Church of England since 1858, listing its clergy | Crockford's | |
The first English daily newspaper (1702–35) | Daily Courant | |
Founded in 1900 by Sir Arthur Pearson; masthead has featured a Crusader logo (satirised by Private Eye) since 1933; switched to tabloid format in 1977 (six years after the Mail) | Daily Express | |
First published in 1912; re–launched in 1964 as The Sun | Daily Herald | |
Founded in 1896 by Alfred Harmsworth (later Lord Northcliffe); gained popularity by sponsoring early flights; switched to tabloid format on 3 May 1971, its 75th anniversary | Daily Mail | |
Edited by Paul Dacre, 1992–2018 | ||
Founded in 1903 by Alfred Harmsworth (later Lord Northcliffe) as a daily newspaper run by women, for women; relaunched in 1904 as a pictorial newspaper run by men | Daily Mirror | |
First used the word Beatlemania, on 2 November 1963 | ||
Scottish sister of the Daily Mirror (owned by Reach plc – previously known as Trinity Mirror); claims Scotland's largest readership | Daily Record | |
Foundedin Manchester, 1909, by Edward Hulton; merged with the Daily Mail in 1971 | Daily Sketch | |
Owned by Conrad Black 1985–2004, David & Frederick Barclay from 2004; edited by Bill Deedes 1974–86, Max Hastings 1986–95 | Daily Telegraph | |
Employed the 'undercover journalists' that got Sam Allardyce sacked from the England job in 2016 | ||
Compiler of The Peerage of England, Scotland and Ireland (1802) and The Baronetage of England (1808) | John Debrett | |
Editor of the Daily Telegraph, 1974–86: generally assumed to have been the addressee of the spoof "Dear Bill" letters, from Denis Thatcher, in Private Eye | Bill Deedes | |
Regional daily newspaper, published in Norwich since 1870 | Eastern Daily Press | |
Name shared by local newspapers in Liverpool and Bournemouth (founded in 1879 and 1900 respectvely) | Echo | |
Publication that first compared Liz Truss's seven days in actual power to the shelf life of a lettuce (October 2022) | The Economist | |
French fashion/lifestyle magazine for women, founded in 1945 by Hélène Gordon–Lazareff and her husband, Pierre Lazareff (editor of the newspaper France–Soir); first sold as a supplement to France–Soir; first international edition launched in Japan in 1969; US and UK editions launched in 1985; as of 2019 it claims to be the world's largest fashion magazine, with 46 editions in 60 countries (cf. Marie Claire) | Elle | |
First published in Edinburgh in three volumes, 1768–71; American–owned since 1901; donated to the University of Chicago in 1943, and published there ever since; logo is a thistle | Encyclopaedia Britannica | |
Weekly (Thursday) newspaper published by Robert Maxwell from 1990 to 1998 | The European | |
Published its first 50 titles in 1905 | Everyman's Library | |
First published in 1868, as a development of a column of the same name in Queen magazine; claimed to be the first newspaper in the world to specialise in classified advertising; went online only in 2009 | Exchange & Mart | |
'Men's lifestyle magazine' (or 'lad mag'), 1985–2015 – famous for its annual 100 Sexiest Women in the World feature | FHM | |
France's oldest national daily newspaper: founded in 1826 as a satirical weekly, taking its name and motto from a play by Pierre Beaumarchais | Le Figaro | |
British daily newspaper, traditionally printed on pink paper; celebrated its centenary in 1993 with a white edition | Financial Times | |
Sheet of paper folded once to make four pages | Folio | |
British novelist: founder of the English Review and Transatlantic Review | Ford Madox Ford | |
International Financial Times: published since 1979 in | Frankfurt | |
The world's largest publisher of English language travel guides – founded in Paris, 1946, by a Hungarian travel writer | Fodor's | |
Annual publication: first published in 1972, edited from 1978 to 1983 and from 2000 to 2018 by Roger Protz | The Good Beer Guide | |
Annual publication: published first in 1951 by Raymond Postgate, then by Which?, and since 2013 by Waitrose | The Good Food Guide | |
Founded in 1885 by Clark W. Bryan in Holyoke, Massachusetts, as a fortnightly magazine; went monthly in 1892, printed in the UK since 1922; features articles about diet, health, recipes and product testing; famous for its 'seal of approval' | Good Housekeeping | |
In Hollywood's Golden Age, the "gooey" Louella Parsons and the "crass" Hedda Hopper were bitter rivals as | Gossip columnists | |
British publishing house: started as a literary magazine, founded in 1889 by students at Cambridge University; its name is the medieval name for the River Cam | Granta | |
Original editor of A Dictionary of Music and Musicians, first published in 1878 | Sir George Grove | |
Dropped the word Manchester from its title in 1959; edited by Alastair Hetherington 1956–75, Peter Preston 1975–95, Alan Rusbridger 1995–15 | The Guardian | |
Founder of Penthouse magazine | Bob Guccione | |
Publishing group founded by Michael Heseltine | Haymarket | |
Publisher of the iconic Owner's Workshop Manual series – originally for a variety of cars, but later expanded to include fictional machines from series such as Star Trek, Ghostbusters and Thomas the Tank Engine, and others based on lifestyle topics | Haynes | |
UK gossip magazine, launched in 1999; shares its name with a 1995 film that starred Robert De Niro and Al Pacino | Heat | |
Celebrity news and gossip magazine, successfully sued by Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones in 2003 for publishing unauthorised photographs of their wedding; also sued by rival magazine OK! which had an exclusive contract | Hello! | |
Succeeded Richard Ingrams as editor of Private Eye, in 1986 | Ian Hislop | |
Weekly magazine founded by Dickens in 1850 | Household words | |
Compiled in 1861 by Henry Baker and William Monk | Hymns Ancient & Modern | |
Newspaper launched by The Independent, October 2010: aimed at younger readers and commuters, costing 20p; sold to the Johnston Press in 2016, the day before the Indy announced that it was going online–only | i | |
Books published before 1501 – Latin for "swaddling clothes" or "cradle" | Incunabula |
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Newspaper launched in 1986 by three former Daily Telegraph journalists (all of whom had left towards the end of Lord Hartwell–s ownership – i.e. before it was taken over by Conrad Black) | The Independent | |
Editor of Private Eye, 1963–86; founding editor of The Oldie, 1992 | Richard Ingrams | |
Underground newspaper or magazine, founded in London in 1966 – used a picture of silent film star Theda Bara in its logo, the editors having mistaking it for Clara Bow ("the It Girl") | International Times (IT) | |
Annual reference book, first published in London in 1898 as an aid to naval officers and war gamers, of information on all the world's warships, arranged by nation; a sister volume on military aircraft has been published since 1909 | Jane's Fighting Ships | |
Controversial editor of the Sunday Express, 1954–86: as a columnist, known for catchphrases such as "pass the sick–bag, Alice" and "I don't know, but I think we should be told", and for his frequent references to the town of Auchtermuchty, in Fife | John Junor | |
British weekly magazine devoted to rock and metal music, first published in 1981 as a one–time supplement in the music newspaper Sounds; title is onomatopoeic, imitating a resounding guitar chord | Kerrang! | |
Paparazzi: film in which the term originates (Fellini, 1960) | La Dolce Vita | |
The first women's magazine (1693) | Ladies' Mercury | |
Founded in 1855 by Thomas Gibson Bowles, maternal grandfather of the Mitford sisters; edited from 2009 to 2012 by Rachel Johnson – younger sister of Boris | The Lady | |
Weekly journal of the medical profession in Britain: founded in 1823 by surgeon Thomas Wakley | The Lancet | |
Book club founded in 1936 by Victor Gollancz | Left Book Club | |
Featured on the cover of the first issue of Rolling Stone magazine (1967) | John Lennon | |
American pictorial news magazine was published from 1936 to 1972 | Life | |
The first Page 3 girl (in The Sun – 1969) | Ula Lindstrom | |
Magazine launched by the BBC (under Lord Reith) in 1929, to provide more in–depth coverage of subjects of radio broadcasts than the Radio Times; ceased publication in 1991 | The Listener | |
'Lad–mag', launched in 1994, has the same name as the first Top 20 hit for the Scottish alternative rock band Primal Scream | Loaded | |
Official 'journal of record' of the UK Government, in which certain statutory notices – including those specific to England and/or Wales – are required to be published | London Gazette | |
Claims to be England's oldest surviving newspaper, and the UK's oldest continuously published, having been first published in 1665 (under a different title) | ||
Britain's oldest publishing company (founded in 1724; acquired by Pearson in 1968, survives as Pearson Longman, an imprint of Pearson Education) | Longmans | |
Came top in Waterstone's 1997 poll (in association with Channel 4) to find the public's choice as Book of the Century, and also in the BBC's Big Read (2003) | Lord of the Rings | |
USA: largest newspaper circulation | Los Angeles Times | |
Controversial editor of The Sun, 1981–94 | Kelvin MacKenzie | |
You is a supplement (aimed at women) to the | Mail on Sunday | |
General interest magazine for women (including fashion, etc.): founded in France in 1937 by publisher Jean Prouvost and writer Marcelle Auclair, and first published in the UK in 1941 (cf. Elle) | Marie Claire | |
Founder of the Pergamon Press; acquired Mirror Group Newspapers; removed over £400m from its pension fund; died in 1991 | Robert Maxwell | |
Twin brothers who established the Guinness Book of Records | McWhirter (Norris & Ross) | |
Weekly music magazine (or newspaper), founded in 1926 and claimed to be the world's oldest: championed progressive rock from the late 1960s, having earlier focused on jazz and dance band music; following a gradual decline in sales, merged with its long–term rival NME in 2000 | Melody Maker | |
Free daily newspaper, published by Associated Newspapers Ltd. (who also publish the Daily Mail); launched in 1999, now distributed in 14 British cities | Metro | |
Publishing house, founded in 1908, moved in the 1930s to specialise in romantic novels, which have been criticised as low–brow and formulaic – even misogynistic; bought in 1971 by Harlequin Enterprises (of Toronto) – previously its North American distributor | Mills & Boon | |
Playboy's first Playmate of the Month – also appeared on the front cover | Marilyn Monroe | |
Formerly the Daily Worker | Morning Star | |
Founded News Limited after inheriting his father's two Adelaide newspapers in 1952; his company, now known as News International, bought the News of the World and The Sun in 1969, and The Times in 1981; later known as News Corporation or News Corp, it acquired Twentieth Century Fox in 1985, HarperCollins in 1989, and The Wall Street Journal in 2007; formed BSkyB in 1990; took US citizenship in 1985, to enable the purchase of Fox | Rupert Murdoch | |
Definitive reference for methods of timekeeping worldwide | Nautical Almanac | |
Left Newscorp, where he'd been Editor of the Sunday Times and a key figure in the launch of Sky TV, in 1994 – claiming that Rupert Murdoch had become jealous of his celebrity | Andrew Neil | |
Sponsors of a set of annual prizes for children's books, 1985–2008 | Nestlé Smarties | |
Newspaper launched by the Trinity Mirror Group on 29 February 2016, aimed at a middle–aged female readership: folded in the first week of May (66 days later) | The New Day | |
Danny Baker, Julie Birchill, Tony Parsons: all wrote for | New Musical Express | |
British newspaper: formed by a merger in 1930; "considered ... to be in broad support of the Liberal Party" "folded, inappropriately" (according to the BBC) "into the grip" of the Daily Mail in 1960 | News Chronicle | |
Weekly magazine, founded in 1956 by Tom Margerison (who in 1968 co–founded London Weekend Television, along with David Frost), former cricketer Max Raison, and financier Nicholas Harrison | New Scientist | |
Newspaper founded in 1843, whose circulation was at one time the biggest for any newspaper ever (8.4 million in 1951): ceased publication in 2011 after a scandal over its methods | News of the World | |
Weekly publication, covering politics and culture: founded in 1913 by Sidney and Beatrice Webb, with the support of George Bernard Shaw and other prominent members of the Fabian Society; past editors have included Richard Crossman (1970–2) and Anthony Howard (1972–8) | New Statesman | |
Founded in 1925 by Harold Ross; Thurber a regular contributor | New Yorker | |
Employed Henry Morton Stanley as a special correspondent in 1867, and instructed him in 1869 to undertake a roving commission in the Middle East, which was to include the relief of Dr. David Livingstone (1871) | New York Herald | |
"All the news that's fit to print" is a slogan of the | New York Times | |
Founded and edited by Horace Greeley (1841); championed the abolition of slavery in the USA | New York Tribune | |
US newspaper that published the first crossword puzzle in 1913 | New York World | |
The original UK weekly 'lads' mag': launched in 2004 with the slogan "When You Really Need Something Funny"; ceased publication in 2014 | Nuts | |
Britain's, and the world's, oldest Sunday newspaper (founded in 1791 by W. S. Bourne); Clement Freud was once its football correspondent; Mrs. Blair's Diary appeared in | The Observer | |
Fictional couple who answered readers' letters and queries in the Daily Mirror, from 1934 to 1990 | The Old Codgers | |
First published in 1697 as Vox Stellarum ('the voice of the stars') | Old Moore's Almanack | |
Underground magazine, established by Richard Neville and first published in Sydney in 1963; prosecuted for obscenity in Australia 1964 and UK in 1971; in both cases the editors were found guilty and sentenced to harsh jail terms, but acquitted on appeal | Oz | |
Name given to 11.5 million documents leaked in 2015 from law firm Mossack Fonseca, concerning financial and lawyer–client information (with alleged implications of fraud and tax evasion) concerning hundreds of individuals including Sarah, Duchess of York, Mark Thatcher, Kevin Keegan, Nick Faldo, Simon Cowell, Heather Mills, and David Cameron's father: said to be the biggest data leak ever | Panama Papers | |
Name given to 13.4 million documents leaked in 2017 from the Bermuda–based offshore law firm Appleby, concerning the offshore investments of individuals including Prince Charles and the Queen, and companies including Apple and Nike: said to be the second biggest data leak ever, after the Panama Papers | Paradise Papers | |
First published in 1897, and annually from 1953 – by Penguin from 1988; still bore the name of its original sponsor until 2017, when it was discontinued upon the retirement of Dr. Chris Cook, its editor since 1977 | Pears' Cyclopaedia | |
Magazine that published Britain's first crossword puzzle in 1922 | Pearson's Magazine | |
Penguin imprint launched in 1937 for books that were educational rather than entertaining – identified by pale blue covers – discontinued in 1990 | Pelican | |
Publishing house, founded in 1935 by Allen Lane; prosecuted for obscenity in 1960 after publishing D. H. Lawrence's final novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover | Penguin | |
Published annually, 1732–58, by Benjamin Franklin, under a pseudonym; sold up to 10,000 copies per year – an exceptional number for the American colonies in those times; credited with popularising the motto, "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise" | Poor Richard's Almanac(k) | |
Grew out of a magazine edited at Shrewsbury School by Richard Ingrams, Willie Rushton, Christopher Booker, Paul Foot; edited since 1986 by Ian Hislop – previously (from 1963) by Ingrams; Lord Gnome is its fictional proprietor | Private Eye | |
Regular features include Pseud's Corner, Nooks & Corners (founded by John Betjeman), Rotten Boroughs, Street of Shame, HP Sauce, Medicine Balls; lampooning parodies of prime ministers, starting with Mrs. Wilson's Diary and including The Vicar of St. Albion (Tony Blair) | ||
Refers to the Queen as Brenda | ||
Name and symbol of Penguin Books' children's series | Puffin | |
Founded in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and Ebenezer Landells; first editors were Mayhew and Mark Lemon. Folded in 1992, after a long decline in circulation (from its peak in the 1940s); revived in 1996, but folded again in 2002 | Punch | |
Subtitled The London Charivari (in homage to a French magazine of that title) | ||
"Advice to persons about to marry: Don't" is one of the most famous lines (jokes) from | ||
Cocoa Press: nickname for newspapers published by | Quakers | |
Founded in 1922 by DeWitt Wallace and his wife Lila; said to be the world's most widely read magazine; regular features include Laughter, the best medicine, It pays to increase your word power, and Life's like that | Reader's Digest | |
Right and left–hand pages of a book | Recto, verso | |
Principal proprietor of the Daily Mail from 1922 (died in 1940) | Lord Rothermere | |
Tobacco company that sponsored the football yearbook first published in 1970 by the Queen Anne Press, until 2002, after which it was proscribed by the ban on tobacco sponsorship in sport | Rothmans | |
Fictional island nation created by The Guardian for April Fools' Day 1977 | San Serriffe | |
Published in Edinburgh since its foundation in 1817 as a weekly (relaunched in 1855 as a daily) | The Scotsman | |
Editor of the Manchester Guardian from 1872 to 1929, and its owner from 1907 until his death in 1932 | C. P. Scott | |
First man to feature on the cover of Playboy magazine (1964) | Peter Sellers | |
Daily newspaper of the Potteries | The Sentinel | |
Founder of Today newspaper | Eddy Shah | |
Appeared on the front cover of Playboy magazine in November 2009, wearing only a blue beehive hairdo | Marge Simpson | |
Pop music magazine, 1978–2006 – originally to publish song lyrics | Smash Hits | |
British feminist magazine, 1972–92 – founded by Rosie Boycott and Marsha Rowe | Spare Rib | |
Founded in 1711 by Joseph Addison; edited by Boris Johnson, 1999–2005 | The Spectator | |
British newspaper: founded in 1859, online only from 1998; best known for its coverage of horse racing | Sporting Life | |
Weekly newspaper for the British entertainment industry, but mainly the theatre – founded in 1880 | The Stage | |
First published in Milan in 1868, as the Gazzetta Piemontese | La Stampa | |
London livery company that held a monopoly on publishing in Britain, from its foundation in 1402 until the passing of the Copyright Act in 1709; amalgamated with the Newspaper Makers' Company in 1937 | Stationers' Company | |
Monthly magazine, first published in 1891; Sherlock Holmes stories first appeared in | Strand | |
UK's largest daily newspaper circulation | The Sun | |
The first British newspaper to publish a crossword puzzle (1924) | Sunday Express | |
Dick Francis was racing correspondent, from 1957 to 1973, for the | ||
Founded in 1821 as The New Observer; changed to the Independent Observer nine weeks later, and to its curernt title in 1822 | Sunday Times | |
First British newspaper to publish a colour supplement | ||
1997 ghost–written novel, attributed to supermodel Naomi Campbell | Swan | |
Catholic weekly: published in London, founded in 1840, owned by the laity except between 1868 and 1937 (when it was owned by successive Archbishops of Westminster) | The Tablet | |
Principal news agency of the Soviet Union | Tass | |
Dundee–based publisher of the Beano, Dandy, etc. | D. C. Thomson & Co. | |
Founded in 1785 as The Daily Universal Register; nicknamed The Thunderer; ceased publication for almost a year owing to an industrial dispute, 1978–9 | The Times | |
Founded in 1902, edited by Bruce Richmond | Times Literary Supplement | |
Launched in 1986 by Eddy Shah; the first British newspaper to be routinely published in colour; ceased publication in 1995 | Today | |
"Democratic Socialist" magazine, founded as a newspaper in 1937 by the wealthy Labour MPs Sir Stafford Cripps and George Strauss: edited 1955–60 (and also 1948–52 along with Evelyn Anderson) by Michael Foot; changed from weekly to quarterly in 2018, after being bought by the similar American magazine Jacobin; cf. Ancient Rome | Tribune | |
Bookbinder's name for the left hand page of a book | Verso | |
First woman to edit The Grauniad: succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015 as Editor–in–Chief | Katharine Viner | |
Founded in 1973 by Carmen Callil, to publish books by women writers – new and reissued | Virago Press | |
Humorous magazine first published in 1979 by Newcastle schoolboys Chris and Simon Donald | Viz | |
Founded in 1892 by US businessman Arthur Baldwin Turnure, as a New York society magazine; bought in 1905 by Condé Nast, who targeted it at women and began publishing outside the USA | Vogue | |
US equivalent of the Financial Times: published in New York, has the highest circulation of any US newspaper (New York Times is second) | Wall Street Journal | |
Newspaper of the Salvation Army – first published on 27 December 1879 | War Cry | |
Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward exposed Watergate in the | Washington Post | |
Religious magazine of the Jehovah's Witnesses | The Watchtower | |
On 1 August 1861, The Times published the first | Weather forecast | |
Published An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828) | Noah Webster | |
"The national newspaper of Wales" (self–proclaimed); founded in 1869, published in Cardiff | Western Mail | |
Weekly newspaper published in Kendal, South Lakeland: published the illustrated guidebooks of A. Wainwright, from 1963 until his death in 1990 (after which it was done by Michael Joseph, an imprint of Penguin since 1985) | Westmorland Gazette | |
Monthly newspaper of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) | What's Brewing | |
Monthly publication of The Consumer Association | Which? | |
Michael Winner's restaurant review column in the Sunday Times, published for 20 years until shortly before his death in 2013 | Winner's Dinners | |
Daughter of a former Editor of the Evening Standard. Started work in 1970 at Harpers & Queen (London); joined Harper's Bazaar (New York) in 1976 as Fashion Editor; named Creative Director of American Vogue in 1983; Editor in Chief of British Vogue, 1986–8, and of American Vogue from 1988 | Anna Wintour | |
Weekly sister magazine to FHM, published 2004–15 (outlasted its weekly rival Nuts by about 18 months) | ZOO |
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