Media    From 1940  To 1949

Horizon Magazine

An influential literary and art magazine. From a pdf issued for the unveiling: "... Stephen Spender joined Cyril Connolly and the wealthy patron Peter Watson in 1939 to set up Horizon at 6 Selwyn House, 2 Lansdowne Terrace, using the two ground floor rooms of his {Spender's} rented apartment as editorial offices for the magazine. Horizon was edited by Cyril Connolly, who made it into a platform for a wide range of distinguished and emerging writers .... It had a print run of 102 issues or 20 volumes. Spender served as associate editor from 1939 to 1941, although he continued making contributions after that." "Sonia Brownell met George Orwell through the magazine and later married him."

Other contributors include: Auden, Beaton, Betjeman, T. S. Eliot, Empson, Fleming, Lucian Freud, Graham Greene, Barbara HepworthAugustus John, MacNeice, Henry Moore, Paul Nash, Ben Nicholson, Bertrand Russell, Sackville-West, Dylan Thomas, Woolf.

Many of these are artists but the format of the magazine does not look picture-friendly. Is it possible that all these artists wrote articles for Horizon?

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Horizon Magazine

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Orwell, Spender & Cyril Connolly’s Horizon Magazine

George Orwell, 1903 - 1950, Sir Stephen Spender, 1919 - 1995, wrote for Cyril...

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Baron George Allardice Riddell

Baron George Allardice Riddell

Newspaper proprietor, The News of the World in particular.  Chairman of the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's Inn Road, in 1926 when he, together with George Eastman, and Sir Albert Levy, funded the cons...

Person, Benefactor, Journalism / Publishing

2 memorials
Lippincott's Magazine

Lippincott's Magazine

Monthly magazine. Published in Philadelphia until 1915 when it relocated to New York to become McBride's Magazine. It merged with Scribner's Magazine in 1916. It published original works, general a...

Fiction, Journalism / Publishing, USA

1 memorial
Frost Fairs

Frost Fairs

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Event, Commerce, Food & Drink, Journalism / Publishing

1 memorial
Jewish Daily Post and Express

Jewish Daily Post and Express

The building's listing entry says: “Having been established in 1926, the Jewish Daily Post ceased circulation in August 1935 shortly after the refurbishment.”  Elsewhere we have read that the Jewis...

Media, Journalism / Publishing

1 memorial
Pennant's London / Of London

Pennant's London / Of London

A book about London by Thomas Pennant, first published 1790. The Picture Source website does not make it clear that this picture is from Pennant's London, but it is such an apposite picture that we...

Person, History, Journalism / Publishing

1 memorial

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Battle of Trafalgar

Battle of Trafalgar

A sea battle that took place off Cape Trafalgar on the south west coast of Spain. Nelson led the British fleet to a decisive victory which permanently removed the threat of invasion of England by t...

Event, Armed Forces, France, Spain

9 memorials
Haggerston Road School

Haggerston Road School

We can find very little about this school, it's all just hints and pointers. AIM25's holdings for All Saints Church include some records about the parish school, presumably this one.  The earlies...

Building, Education

2 memorials
Uriah Wilkinson

Uriah Wilkinson

Possibly a Freeman of the City of London, born in Manchester. Father of John Wilkinson?  See the memorial page for our researches.

Person, Friend / family

1 memorial
County of Middlesex

County of Middlesex

Former county. It became a shire in the 10th century, but most of the area was lost to the County of London with the passing of the Local Government Act of 1888. It officially ceased to exist in 19...

Place, Politics & Administration

2 memorials
James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell

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Person, Poetry, USA

1 memorial