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In her long career Laurie Purden MBE inspired, entertained and informed during what was known as the golden age of magazines.

<strong>Other lives: </strong>Doyenne of the golden age of women’s magazines, she was editor-in-chief of Good Housekeeping, Woman’s Journal and Woman & Home

Simon Hill HonFRPS, President of the RPS simon.hill@rps.org In second-hand bookshops and at car boot sales, I find it impossible to resist any dog-eared copies of Picture Post magazine, the publication that did for the genre of British photojournalism what Life magazine - the inspiration for Picture Post - did for the American genre.  While writing a documentary brief for a class of A-level photography students, I was t...