This is a complete copy of a Radio Times from November 1983, with the localised listings for the region THE NORTH 1. It was published by BBC Publications.
The best thing about old magazines is almost always the advert. Especially old computer adverts.
I also quite like this advert for coal – the fuel of the future.
Good old futurstic coal.
The rest of the magazine can be seen by clicking on the images in the gallery below.
Many thanks to N Fishwick for sending me these scans.
Physics in Technology was a bimonthly Physics journal. These covers are all from 1979.
I don’t really have much to say about these, I’m just finishing up the last of the junk in my father’s big box of science magazines from the 70s. At least one of them has CEEFAX on the cover. Teletext is the most beautiful of all things. Soon it will be dead and I think I might cry.
There were also a couple of copies of Science Journal from the 60s in the box, with strangely lovely covers.
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This is a gallery of 36 New Scientist magazine covers from 1976 and 1977 (and also one cover from 1981). Its not a complete years worth of covers as some issues are missing, but this is all I have. My meagre legacy.
These are more of my dad’s old science magazines. Some of the covers are really brilliant. I think the entirety of The City Of Lost Children might well have based on that image of the baby. As with all things that have never died, it appears the New Scientist was much better before I was born.
There are more covers in the gallery below, including a pretty exciting one featuring a group of engineers standing in front of their machinery. Those are always my favourite.
The orangutan one fills me with inexplicable nostalgia for the Tom-Mix loading screen on their Dragon 32 games. Well, pretty much everything fills me with inexplicable nostalgia but this does especially.
It’d slowly be drawn in line by line as it loaded, presumably adding an extra five minutes to the loading time of the game, but it was worth it, always.
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Physics Bulletin was a physics journal published by The Physics Trust for The Institute of Physics. This gallery covers the years from 1977 to 1983.
These magazines were my father’s. Most of the covers are pleasingly abstract images of scientific processes, although a few are less interesting pictures of machine shops and occasionally trains, and there are some odd things, too, of course.
Also there’s a picture of some 1980s children smilingly using a computer, which is basically my favourite genre of images of all.
One of my earliest memories, or at least one of the best, is of my father spending entire weekends using our crappy computer to slowly generate monochrome fractals on the screen when I was about five. It is only when I remember that my father was 2 or 3 years younger then than I am now that the weeping sets in.
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The Unexplained: Mysteries of Mind Space and Time was a magazine series from 1980, published by Orbis. It was one of those things where they take a book, cut it up into 12 smaller pieces, and make you collect it each month and put it in a binder until it was complete. This probably cost twice as much as the book would have done in the first place.
This is the only copy of The Unexplained I have, annoyingly. Although, as this contains aliens, spaceships and the Loch Ness monster, I’m not really sure what else they could have had in the previous 11 issues. Crop circles I suppose, and maybe the Crabbus Man.
The best article in it is the one about close encounters with aliens, due to the illustrations.
I really want to meet an alien I think.
I found the magazine in a box full of my dad’s old physics magazines from the 70s in the loft. Inside it was a cutting from a Southend newspaper about UFOS. Although I’m not sure if he’d kept the cutting because of that or because of the beautiful lady on the other side.
I’m not sure which would be a worse and more guilty secret for a physicist - an obsession with UFOs orwith grubby Essex page 3 knock-offs. Or maybe he just really wanted a fur coat.
You can read the whole of this issue of The Unexplained below if you dare.
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