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Seen as one of the greatest of all-time during his life, Ayrton Senna’s reputation has only grown in the years following his tragic death at Imola in May 1994.   To celebrate the release of a film about his life in June 2011, Autosport featured a special look at...

We were stepping into the future with the Caravan Club’s magazine in February 1997 as they unveiled this remarkable new thing called a satellite navigation system.   The VW Passat was to be fitted with TravelPilot, a CD-ROM based system, the first of its kind to...

Such was the timeless brilliance of Peter Alliss as a commentator for many years, it was easy to forget that he came to the microphone after many years paying his dues on the course.   In April 1958’s Golf Monthly, Fred Pignon profiled ‘one of the most brilliant...

Owen Farrell made his debut for French club Racing 92 last weekend, the England man having moved there from Saracens at the end of last season. But wind the clock back ten years and he was beginning to establish himself in international rugby, earning a cover feature...

July 9 1966 and, like the rest of the country, the TV Times was looking forward to the Word Cup taking place in England.   At ITV, all eyes were on the opening game taking place on Monday 11 July and featuring England taking on Uruguay. It was a very different...

November 2011 and the footballing world was still trying to take stock of the financial transformation that had come the way of Manchester City and just what that might mean for the English game.   With the derby game due, Four Four Two launched a full-scale...

Autosport had rarely featured colour photography on its covers since its inception in 1950. The exceptions were when an advertiser had bought the front cover space or if they were producing a motor show special.   June 25 1965 changed all that with Francis Penn’s...

The cover of Horse & Hound on February 23 1952 could not have been more topical, nor appropriate. Following the passing of King George VI earlier in the month, a picture of Queen Elizabeth II featured on the front page, on horseback as you would expect from the...

It was a special edition of En Route in September 1973 as HM the Queen adorned the front cover of the magazine, pictured meeting some members of the Caravan Club. You can read all about it here…   The magazine’s editorial noted that this was “Royal recognition of...

If the start of what we think of as modern football in England has a moment where the touchpaper was lit, it was the arrival of Ruud Gullit at Chelsea and his elevation to the manager’s job.   Interviewed in FourFourTwo in September 1996, Gullit had all the...

The rise of Seve Ballesteros was the subject of Golf Monthly’s September 1978 issues, the cover shot and accompanying feature proclaiming him as one of golf’s new ‘big three’ alongside Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson.   That was a reference to a period 15 years...

September 2014 and with the new season just grinding into gear, Rugby world was looking at the people shaping that campaigns, and the years to come, with a list of the ’50 Most Influential People In Rugby’.   As ever, with the value of ten years worth of...

Prime Minister Harold MacMillan was the cover star of the 14 September 1963 edition of Horse & Hound, photographed at the Bucks County Show in Aylesbury. The photo was appropriate because these turned out to be the dog days (sorry) of MacMillan’s premiership,...

Such was the dominance of Michael Schumacher and Ferrari back in the early 2000s that on 2 September 2004, Autosport could bring news of the great German sealing his seventh F1 world title, a record since matched by Lewis Hamilton.   Schumacher won his title at...

Has the front cover of any magazine ever offered more promise than TV Times on 22 September 1973?   First, there’s the legendary Fred Trueman, no longer England’s premier fast bowler but instead, the MC of Indoor League, the ‘pub Olympics’ as they were termed,...

Carl Hester returned home from the Pairs Olympics, his seventh for Team GB since his debut in Barcelona in 1992, with another bronze medal safely packed in his luggage as the British team finished third in the dressage competition. That was Hester’s fourth medal,...

Guest columnists are an opportunity for any magazine to freshen things up and long before he became a regular contributor to Rugby World, Frank Keating was in the guest slot from time to time, as in May 1979 when he was there to remark on the final passing of the...

Geoffrey King was the man with the practical helps and hints for the caravan enthusiast in his En Route column and in August 1980, following a breakdown of his own on the M1, he enlisted the help of his AA patrolman to uncover some of the issues that a breakdown might...

Timing is all with a columnist and Autosport certainly hit paydirt when they selected Ferrari’s South African driver Jody Scheckter as their regular scribe for the 1979 F1 season.   Paired with Gilles Villeneuve in the red cars, his glamourous Canadian colleague...

Dave Lanning was a regular writer for TV Times, less a columnist and more of a roving reporter / interviewer. That gave him access to some of the legends of the showbiz world including, in January 1965, the great Peter Sellers.   This was a particular coup given...