The Ladybird Tuesday post on The Story of Newspapers can now be found over on Penny Reads. You can read it in full here.
If you have a collection of old Ladybird books then please feel free to join in with Ladybird Tuesday. There are no formal rules to follow, just leave a link to any post you write in the comments below and if you’re feeling kind link back to my Ladybird Tuesday category here on Being Mrs C. Thanks!
Hi Mrs C,
I imagine that Playboy in the UK was a magazine much like it still is here in the Netherlands, it is as you described a magazine much like GQ. It holds in depth interviews, restaurant reviews, the latest gadgets and pictures of naked women.
If you want I can send you a copy 😉
Marco
That looks like a fascinating book! And interesting comment above about Playboy magazine! I’ve joined in this week with The Story of Ships http://www.jenniferslittleworld.com/2013/12/ladybird-tuesday-story-of-ships.html
Ill decline your kind offer thanks Marco! I think its probably the case that Playboy was like that here but it now has a very different reputation…
Thanks for joining in again jennifer – and how funny that we should both choose books from the same series this week!
I saw a copy of this Inna charity shop n Saltaire. It took me right back to my childhood, when I read it, and thought how exciting the world of news looked.
It set me off to a life of submitting pictures to local newspapers, as a teenager, training as a photographer, then finally setting up in business as a freelance press photographer, and finally 45 years on getting publications in national papers.
All that from a little book in a school library.
Indeed newspapers have changed. I remember when regular freelancing began in 2000 you could still smoke in the newsroom, which had a permanent fig, and a sepia tint. Happy days, which will be soon non existent.