Peculiar advice

THE People’s Friend” has always made an effort to cover a wide array of topics. We can see this right from its earliest days. Content published in the magazine throughout 1887 shows that we were just

Why books that became beloved classics struggled to find their way into print

WELLBEING advice is a popular and enduring topic for magazines to cover, but few titles can claim to have been doing so for as long as the “Friend”. In 1885, we took an often philosphical approach to

Back in May, I was reading the May 3 edition and noticed the item about Gary Barlow being on tour on the “This Week We’re Loving” page. I looked up the venues and discovered he was going to play the E

Literary culture has never been secure from the philistines but books need better publicity

Where newspapers came from