Categories | News magazine |
---|---|
Frequency | Weekly |
Publisher | News Periodicals Ltd |
Founded | 1936 |
First issue | February 1936 |
Final issue | 1950 |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Cavalcade was a British weekly news magazine which was in circulation between 1936 and 1950. [1] It was modelled on the American magazine Time . [2] [3] The first issue of Cavalcade appeared in February 1936. [1] [4] The founding publisher was News Periodicals Ltd. [5] In 1937 Cavalcade reported that its circulation was 50,000 copies, [1] but next year the magazine was sold due to financial problems. [2]
Cavalcade was the only British publication which published the photographs of King Edward and Wallis Simpson in the summer of 1936 taken when they were on holiday. [6] These photographs made their relationship publicly known for the first time. [6]
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New Scientist is a popular science magazine covering all aspects of science and technology. Based in London, it publishes weekly English-language editions in the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia. An editorially separate organisation publishes a monthly Dutch-language edition. First published on 22 November 1956, New Scientist has been available in online form since 1996.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley, who generally published under the names E. C. Bentley or E. Clerihew Bentley, was an English novelist and humorist, and inventor of the clerihew, an irregular form of humorous verse on biographical topics.
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Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year. Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths and other stores for sixpence, bringing high-quality fiction and non-fiction to the mass market. Its success showed that large audiences existed for several books. It also affected modern British popular culture significantly through its books concerning politics, the arts, and science.
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Scoops was a weekly British science fiction magazine published by Pearson's in tabloid format in 1934, edited by Haydn Dimmock. Scoops was launched as a boy's paper, and it was not until several issues had appeared that Dimmock discovered there was an adult audience for science fiction. Circulation was poor, and Dimmock attempted to change the magazine's focus to more mature material. He reprinted Arthur Conan Doyle's The Poison Belt, improved the cover art, and obtained fiction from British science fiction writers such as John Russell Fearn and Maurice Hugi, but to no avail. Pearson's cancelled the magazine because of poor sales; the twentieth issue, dated 23 June 1934, was the last. The failure of the magazine contributed to the belief that Britain could not support a science fiction magazine, and it was not until 1937, with Tales of Wonder, that another attempt was made.
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