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June 1994 saw the end of another National Hunt season, Horse & Hound commending Richard Dunwoody on his success as champion jockey and winning the Grand National.   But an editorial in the magazine was exercised by talk of an introduction of summer racing...

August 1976 and ITV’s big summer movie was ‘Spartacus’, featuring Kirk Douglas who told TV Times readers, “I’m impressed every time I see ‘Spartacus’. It really stands the test of time. It was a helluva gamble, the most expensive film made in Hollywood up to that...

Back in February 1995, Glenn Hoddle was making his way in the world as a manager after a playing career that saw him lauded as a genius by some and an unaffordable luxury by others.   Had we but known it, the England job was just around the corner, following...

The November 1938 edition of Golf Monthly featured a fascinating tale of a highly unusual match played at Maylands Essex, where the mighty Henry Cotton took on three highly acclaimed female golfers, Lady Heathcote-Amory, Enid Wilson and Reve Lacoste, playing the best...

Rugby’s Autumn Internationals are almost upon us and that will give us the opportunity to enjoy the dulcet tones of regret Jonathan Davies on commentary once again.   If you can’t wait, then Rugby World’s February 1987 edition had an interview with the ‘Welsh...

F1 was in Mexico City for the Grand Prix this weekend, some 61 years after the first one that counted towards the championship was held in 1963 – the inaugural race was a year earlier but was not a championship race.   As part of his golden year, Jim Clark took...

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...