Having existed for almost 300 years, The London Magazine can lay claim to being England’s oldest literary journal.
Of course it has been reinvented and reissued in different incarnations along the way, but is largely the same version fashioned by the writer and publisher John Lehmann in the middle of the last century. Over time its pages have offered contributions by the likes of Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Hazlitt and John Keats in the nineteenth century to T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden and Evelyn Waugh in the early twentieth century, and more recently William Boyd, Nadine Gordimer and Derek Walcott.