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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...

Lifting the gloom is very much the role of a magazine’s first issue of a new year.   As the decorations come down and the long slog towards Easter starts, Horse & Hound knew its job with the opening issue of 1960, capturing this glorious image of horsemanship...

Some 64 years ago today, this edition of Horse & Hound hit the newsstands, with a cover that could not fail to bring a bit of Christmas cheer to one and all.   They knew a bit about catching the moment in those days didn’t they, even in black & white?...

You can’t have the great British Christmas without a dose of Morecambe & Wise, now can you? Throw in a bit of James Bond for good measure and you had the archetypal 1970s TV line-up.   For Morecambe & Wise, 1978 saw their first Christmas show back at ITV...

Not every Christmas is one of comfort and joy, whether that is individually, or on a more global scale.   Back in 1915, Golf Monthly was not blind to the conflict raging in Europe, giving over its cover to an illustration of the hoped for advance in the coming...

Footballers’ Christmas parties of the past tended to be the thing of legend and, quite often, public record as they inevitably got out of hand and ended up with somebody in casualty on the quiet.   The era of the mobile phone and everything happening on camera...

Just what do you get for the motoring man who has everything at Christmas?   Well, according to this ad from Lucas in the 16 December 1966 edition of Autosport, what he really wants is a stop light indicator, a reversing lamp or a battery filler made of...

In days of Christmas past, before computer games took hold of the world, the young rugby enthusiast would have awoke on the big day hoping that Santa had delivered for him a box containing the Subbuteo Rugby game, plugged in the Christmas issue of Rugby World in...

Bring me the head of Des O’Connor.   No, it’s not an edict from Morecambe & Wise, but rather the cover of the Christmas TV Times from 1969, pieced together in the days before photoshop. Des was the host of ITV’s Christmas Day extravaganza, the ‘All Star...

You can’t get further into the Christmas spirit than the cover of Horse & Hound’s Christmas issue in 1980 can you? If you can’t hear the sound of Prokofiev’s ‘Lieutenant Kije’ rattling around your head after a glance at that, I suggest you see a doctor before it’s...