Woman's Weekly (UK magazine)

Woman's Weekly

28 February 2012 cover of Woman’s Weekly
Editor Diane Kenwood
Categories Mature women's weekly magazine
Frequency Weekly (Wednesday)
Circulation 307,357 (ABC Jul - Dec 2013)[1]
Print and digital editions.
Publisher Tom Smith
First issue 1911
Company Time Inc.
Country UK
Based in London
Language English
Website www.womansweekly.co.uk
ISSN 0043-7417

Woman's Weekly is a British women's magazine published by Time Inc. UK and edited by Diane Kenwood. On sale every Wednesday, Woman’s Weekly sells over 340,000 copies per week.

Background

Launched in 1911,[2] Woman’s Weekly has been a successful magazine title for over 100 years. Woman's Weekly focuses on the home, family and lives of grown-up women, providing them with health advice and hints on how to feel good at any age. Featuring beauty and fashion advice which is age-relevant, it aims to give women the confidence to experiment by adapting the latest trends to suit them.

Woman's Weekly aims to inspire readers to be creative with cookery, home, gardening and craft ideas. Each week also features a fiction story and generally upbeat real-life stories. Woman’s Weekly says it is “the grown-up woman’s guide to modern living”.

On 4 November 2011 the magazine celebrated its 100th anniversary with a special exact facsimile re-publication of the very first edition.[3][4] Discussing the longevity of the magazine, on the BBC Radio 4's Today programme, editor Diane Kenwood and social historian Dr Clare Rose explained that the magazine had been launched in 1911 to appeal to the growing class of office-employed women who sought a magazine for reading on their daily commute by train, tram and bus.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "ABC Certificates and Reports: Woman's Weekly". Audit Bureau of Circulations. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
  2. ↑ Alasdair Reid (25 June 1999). "Media Spotlight On". Campaign. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
  3. ↑ "Woman’s Weekly magazine turns 100 years old" at telegraph.co.uk
  4. ↑ "Woman's Weekly celebrates its 100th anniversary" at pressgazette.co.uk
  5. ↑ BBC Radio 4 Today broadcast 4 November 2011
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