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The first American magazines were published in 1741. Philadelphia printers Andrew Bradford and Benjamin Franklin?who owned rivaling newspapers?both raced to publish the first American magazine.
APL has all sorts of physical magazines that patrons can sit and read by the fireplace or check out like a book and take home.
For centuries, this form of communication has entertained, challenged, and educated us with the likes of Daniel Defoe’s The Review (1704-13) and the iconic National Geographic (1888-current).
A small selection of the Hymag archive Credit: Matt Benson Scent creates the most acute kind of nostalgia and it is heavy in this former cannon factory in the south east London, close to the river. Inside I find Hymag, the world’s biggest collection of magazines according to the Guinness World Records, with over 150,000 magazines. Hymag is open to visitors for a fee: to students, academics, magazine fanatics and brands, who use it, among other things, to research their own histories. (A representative of the House of Dior, for instance, is a regular visitor.) Hymag is in the process of di...