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For a magazine like Golf Monthly, investing in a current player as a columnist is decidedly dicey territory – what happens if said player hits a slump, can’t make a cut to save his life?   You have to do your research wisely and that was very much the case when...

Time was when a columnist in a magazine or a newspaper needed to be a big name in order to bring in the extra sales to justify the salary being paid him or her.   Then came the idea that an anonymous columnist was better placed to really dish the dirt without...

Although they have died out a little over the years, rare indeed was the 20th century magazine that did not employ an illustrator or cartoonist to illuminate their pages.   The Caravan Club’s En Route magazine chose to go the self-depreciating route in its March...

Autosport has long been renowned for its ability to shine a light on the technical intricacies of motor vehicles, and that scientific approach has long been aided by some remarkable illustrations that take you, quite literally, under the bonnet and beneath the...

A thought provoking illustration on a front cover can speak volumes, though perhaps necessity was the mother of this particular invention from Golf Monthly back in December 1944.   With the war still raging, albeit that an end, of sorts, was gradually coming into...

The use of illustrations has tended to take a more satirical edge as time has gone by and FourFourTwo certainly used that approach in March 2006 when they wanted to illustrate an article on the changing face of football fandom since the arrival of the Premier League...

No discussion of illustration, certainly not regarding the Horse & Hound set, could neglect the influence of Norman Thelwell.   The name immediately conjures up visions of a squadron of little Pony Club members, holding onto their over enthusiastic steeds for...

We turn to the pages of Rugby World, a magazine that turned over a full page to its cartoonist, Naylor.   Having to come up with four funny cartoons or more every month is no easy task, so they could be a bit hit and miss, especially viewed from 54 years...

In the summer of 1982, the Caravan Club was celebrating its 75th anniversary and around that time, the National Caravan Council commissioned a survey to earn more about ‘Mr & Mrs Average Caravanner’.   Apparently, one million households owned a caravan, the...

Few foreign imports into the British game have had the impact of Dennis Bergkamp, a sublime talent as Arsenal went toe to toe with Manchester United in one of the Premier League’s first great rivalries.   People often forget it was Brice Rioch who took him to...

August 1927 and Golf Monthly rightly celebrates the champion golfer of the age on its front cover, Bobby Jones – for it is he of whom we speak – captured in relaxed mode, helping himself to a gasper.   By then, ‘the wizard golfer’ had won two British and two US...

Turn the clock back to April 1987 and Rugby World was doing some soul searching in the wake of the Five Nations that had, as so often, displayed every facet of the game in the raw, for good and bad.   With the game on the brink of the inaugural World Cup, Rugby...

Horse & Hound isn’t merely a magazine for followers of, well, horses and hounds. All manner of sporting pursuits were covered in its pages, including the absorbing Ashes series of 1902.   ‘In the annals of cricket, the present season will surely be marked...

Autosport might well have made its reputation for reporting on the cutting edge of modern motorsport over these last 74 years, but that is not the full story.   Let’s go back to November 1960, where the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run is captured in its pages,...

Plenty of interviews pack a punch in the moment, but some of the best of all time only get better and better with hindsight – thankfully, you’ve got the Magazine Archive to help you find some of them.   Few interviews cause the jaw to drop as sharply today as the...

There may have been greater golfers – not very many of them mind you – but have there been any as entertaining as Lee Trevino?   Golf Monthly’s September 1990 encounter with the man was understandably entitled ‘The Man Behind The Smile’, and Al Barkow’s portrait...

Are you sitting comfortably? Then we’ll begin. Once upon a time, most sports had a calendar. Some existed in the autumn and winter, others were played in the summer, and there was a brief crossover in the spring.   This meant that it was possible for some...

In October 1982, Horse & Hound was celebrating the success of Lucinda Green, the World Three-Day Event Champion, as well as a regular panellist on BBC’s ‘Question of Sport’.   Giving a rare in-depth interview on her career, which at that point also included...

In May 2010, England’s ‘golden generation’ were readying themselves for the World Cup in South Africa, a tournament where, under the leadership of Fabio Capello, they were going to take the competition by storm…   That had been the idea after an imperious...

For caravan enthusiasts in search of literary inspiration when looking for a fresh destination, the January 2003 issue of the Caravan Club Magazine used the little grey cells to point the way to Devon.   Devon was the source of much inspiration for Agatha...