John Bull (magazine)
John Bull Magazine was the name of a British weekly magazine founded by Theodore Hook in 1820 . The witty and aggressively written Tory sheet that Queen Caroline chose as its target was an instant hit.
A new company was founded in 1906 under Horatio Bottomley . During the First World War, with slogans such as “Hang the Kaiser!” And “Make he Hun Pay!”, The paper became a popular organ of excessive anti-German war propaganda and also made a name for itself in the interwar period with ultra-patriotic sensational reporting in the sense of a yellow press .
After 1945, the magazine was characterized by high quality illustrations and literary contributions. In a style similar to the American The Saturday Evening Post , the paper offered short stories by Agatha Christie , Nicholas Monsarrat , NJ Crisp , Gerald Kersh , JB Priestley and CS Forester .
After losing market share, the paper was renamed Today, The New John Bull in 1960 . However, it did not succeed in addressing the younger readership. Despite a circulation of around 700,000, the deficit Wochenblatt was pro forma merged with another magazine in 1964, but was de facto discontinued.
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,745621-2,00.html
- ↑ End of the new 'John Bull', The Guardian , July 4, 1964, and Punch , vol. 248, p. 86 (1965)