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Mrs. SJ Opray took to the letters page of Horse & Hounds on May 2nd 1964 to complain about falling standards in the equestrian field. Her letter, headed ‘Scruffy turn-out of horses’, made it clear that the modern world was going to hell in a handcart.  ...

FourFourTwo’s correspondence from May 2012 saw Wilko Wilkes getting on the penalty soapbox – only he’d moved it six yards back.   “In my opinion there is a problem that needs solving more than any other, which never gets questioned: penalties are far too easy to...

In 2001, by winning the US Masters, Tiger Woods completed the remarkable run of winning four consecutive Majors, but the fact that he had done it across two different calendar years had the Golf Monthly letters page asking whether or not it counted as the Grand Slam....

The eternal dilemma of Formula 1 was splashed across the letters page of Autosport on 2 April 1998 – is it a sport, or is it entertainment?   Sean Hannam was in the former camp: “I am bored of hearing about F1’s ‘shortcomings’ as a mass-media show. It is...

June 1968 and if the readers’ letters in TV Times are anything to go by, the psychedelic intoxicants so beloved of the age had reached the makers of children’s TV. No, not ‘The Magic Roundabout’, something else, as you can see in detail here.   “As an admirer of...

In October 1996, as professionalism was making its unsteady way into the world of rugby union, so television was about to create a stir with the move of the Five Nations from BBC television to Sky.   The letters page of Rugby World was suitably exercised, B...

April 1963, and the letters page of En Route – which you can find here - was concerned with the caravanning clergy. HDL Thomas of Ipswich asked, ‘When caravanners cross the Channel, do they find Anglican chaplains in all the wrong places?’ No, it’s not what you think…...

It’s still a busy market in the magazine world and so if you want to catch the attention of the casual punter, a dramatic cover helps. Such as this one from Horse & Hound in the run up to the 1988 Grand National, capturing the horses finding their way over the...

There’s drama aplenty on the cover of Rugby World in May 1965, featuring Stewart Wilson of Oxford University and London Scottish, appointed Scotland’s captain for the Calcutta Cup match against England in that season’s Five Nations.   Wales had already clinched...

January 1972 and Golf Monthly cut through the wintry gloom with a cover shot from the previous summer and the 18th green at Royal Birkdale, home of the 1971 Open Championship.   The issue was in the shops in time for Christmas ’71 of course and there was a...

Not many names could make the cover of FourFourTwo more than a decade after packing in the game, but then Eric Cantona was never your normal footballer.   Fronting the November 2008 issue, Cantona was answering questions from the magazine’s readers, which was...

Fuel crises are not new but in March 1957, there was light at the end of the tunnel as Autosport’s front cover captured the return of international rallying for the first time since ‘the start of the European petrol famine’ that was part of the Suez crisis.   The...

Apollo 14 was on its way to the Moon in January 1971 and as part of the other wonder of the age, television wasn’t going to miss out, hence TV Times’ blanket coverage of the upcoming event, including extracts from Norman Mailer’s excellent book, ‘A Fire On The Moon’....

The Caravan & Motorhome Club Magazine was inviting its members to descend en masse on the midlands in its March 2018 edition, enticing them in with a front cover featuring Ironbridge. From there it ventured as far afield as Chatsworth House and the Blists Hill...

October 2008 and David Beckham had turned his back on European football to set up home in Los Angeles, playing for LA Galaxy and becoming the face of the MLS as football looked to continue growing in the USA.   In his lengthy interview with Guillem Balague,...

With six Majors already to his name, in October 1963, Arnold Palmer was widely regarded as the greatest golfer in the world.   Little wonder then that his game regular came under the Golf Monthly microscope and for the editor, it came as some surprise to discover...

There are few more famous horses in the world than the white Lipizanner stallions of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna. Back in October 1978, they made a rare visit to the UK to perform at Wembley for a week.   Horse & Hound’s Michael Clayton had had a...

Autosport’s edition from October 10 1985 celebrated a first ever F1 win for Britain’s Nigel Mansell, as well as Alain Prost’s success in clinching the driver’s championship at the same race.   It was the Grand Prix of Europe, held at Brands Hatch which, given the...

‘From Norwich - it’s the quiz of the week!’ Readers of a certain age will recall the intro to ITV’s ‘Sale of the Century’ one of the most popular quiz shows of the 1970s, which featured on TV Times’ front cover in October 1976.   Inside the magazine though, there...

On the eve of the Rugby World Cup in 2003, Rugby World was shrewd enough to seek out England’s fly-half Jonny Wilkinson for an interview to gauge his views on England’s prospects.   Four years earlier, after an educational defeat at the hands of the All Blacks,...