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February 1972 and Autosport featured John Davenport’s brilliant summary of the Monte Carlo rally, illustrated by some great photography, including on the cover.   “After what was one of the most exciting Monte Carlo rallies for years, Sandro Munari and Mario...

Coronation Street, a British institution so entrenched that it will probably outlast the monarchy and the regal occasion it was named after.   It celebrated its 21st anniversary in December 1981, a seemingly unbelievable run at the time, but here we are with it...

Look back at the infancy of Rugby World, an issue from February 1965, just four years on from its inception and you have to wonder if any sport has changed quite so much in those intervening 60 years as rugby union.   Take the ‘famous club’ feature from that...

Horse & Hound magazine has never been shy of capturing the Royal Family’s love of the country sports within its pages, but this picture from August 1967 captures Firecrest, the mount of Peter Robeson, looking more than a little startled at the arrival of Princess...

The great Denis Law passed away last week but if we cast our gaze back to March 2012, the King of Old Trafford answered a string of questions from readers of FourFourTwo.   With thoughts on beating England, playing for Matt Busby and Bill Shankly, having an FA...

In its November 1973 issue, Golf Monthly was unveiling a different view on carbon dating, noting that, “A golfer can be dated from whether he is, or is not, a waggler. The waggle practically disappeared from golf many years ago and when seen today, it will invariably...

May 2007 and a new British F1 driver was beginning to earn himself some attention – one Lewis Hamilton.   In his debut season with McLaren, scoring a podium in his first race, going on to battle with team-mate Fernando Alonso for a title neither won in the end,...

The TV Times was all for prompting a bit of moral hysteria in June 1981, featuring Adam Ant on the cover and asking. ‘How would you feel if your son looked like this?’, a traditional response to pop music from the days of Mick Jagger through David Bowie, Marc Bolan,...

Former England skipper Bill Beaumont was a regular columnist for Rugby World and in his January 1983 column, he previewed the upcoming Five Nations Championship.   Proclaiming the sides much of a muchness, he reflected, “Ten years ago, a unique event occurred in...

Beating the All Blacks traditionally makes you the kings of the rugby castle, but how do you round up a bunch of rugby players after the event, get them in situ for the appropriate picture and sap away? You don’t.   In such circumstances, you call upon the...

If you grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, doubtless you received a few birthday cards that resemble this cover of TV Times from May 1971, featuring a football photograph given a bit of artistic treatment to try and make it impossible to recognise the players, thereby not...

Now into its 75th anniversary year, one of the great delights throughout Autosport’s reign at the top has been the use of cutaway illustrations that literally get under the bonnet and show you what’s going on down there.   From Formula 1 cars to road cars,...

Given that we are still in the depths on winter, with the rain pouring and the wind howling, this cartoon from Golf Monthly in February 1931 might strike a chord at the moment.   However circumspect the golfer, whatever his or her devotion to the rules and to...

The courtroom is the last bastion of the ‘artist’s impression’, cameras still not allowed to intrude on the deliberations on m’learned friends.   But FourFourTwo went one better in its April 2007 edition, ‘recreating’ an imaginary scene in court from December...

Illustrated covers have been a rarity down the years for Horse & Hound which, like most magazines, has favoured photography since printing processes made that a possibility in the first half of the 20th century.   But with the bug Tattersalls December sale...

They say that the past is a different country, they do things differently there. Rugy World proved that in January 1961 with an article called ‘Reffing for Fun’ by A.M. Rees, who by then was the Chief Constable of Denbighshire, but a former Welsh international.  ...

A new year generally means a new season of TV programmes, and in 1982, TV Times was looking to the skies for inspiration with Roy Marsden starring in a new series, the post-WW2 drama ‘Airline’.   Elsewhere, Lee Majors had traded in the six-million dollar man for...

With Formula 1 largely in hibernation, the early January issues of Autosport are very often a chance for other motorsports, particularly rallying, to get their moment in the sun – or the mud.   Such was the case in January 1988 with Ted Toleman and Barry Lee...

The greats in many sports arrive at the pinnacle by thinking outside the box, and that was exactly what Justin Rose was doing in Golf Monthly when trying to borrow some elements of Jonny Wilkinson’s kicking game in rugby union to add to his own golf game.  ...

It hasn’t been the happiest start to the new year for Wayne Rooney, losing his job as the Plymouth Argyle manager over the course of the festive season.   It was all very different in January 2003’s issue of FourFourTwo when they were going to town on football’s...