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names of uk garden magazines from 1914-1945.

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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340

    Pete.8 sorry. I forgot to praise you. since, I got distracted 
    by those who  lacked understanding of question. I will have
     make a trip read " My Garden An Intimate Magazine for
     Garden Lovers" when I go to DC next month. 
    Apology appreciated and accepted - thanks

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • philippasmith2 yes am looking for several things.
    1.from my earlier post.

    the reason I only wanted magazines names only, instead newspapers
    names is simple, there is no historic uk magazine archive but there is a uk newspaper archive. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/    as for online sources of old magazines you need names of magazine to find the archives online if they are online. 
    2. I am also looking vegetable garden planting diagrams and
    other graphical representations of vegetable garden methods.  
    since I exhausted the uk newspaper archive finding a minimum 
    that left only books and magazines as information sources from
     that era.

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    And how, oh great one, might we serve you in achieving this goal?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • punkdoc said:
    We find you rude, you despite the help you have been given, seem to find us rude, but there is an easy solution, find a forum more suitable for your needs.
    Win, win, everyone happy.
    Who the hell do you think you are?! 
    It isn't people like the OP that make others leave this forum ..it's people like you.

  • philippasmith2philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742
    philippasmith2 yes am looking for several things.
    1.from my earlier post.

    the reason I only wanted magazines names only, instead newspapers
    names is simple, there is no historic uk magazine archive but there is a uk newspaper archive. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/    as for online sources of old magazines you need names of magazine to find the archives online if they are online. 
    2. I am also looking vegetable garden planting diagrams and
    other graphical representations of vegetable garden methods.  
    since I exhausted the uk newspaper archive finding a minimum 
    that left only books and magazines as information sources from
     that era.

    OK   I'm not sure really how much more anyone on here can actually help you in your quest.
    As I understand from your previous threads, you already have a number of veg garden planting diagrams tho whether they were US or UK ones I don't recall. I'm not sure whether the average gardener here during the war years was really too fussed about producing diagrams ( too busy avoiding bombs and such like perhaps ) but trusted to either their own expertise or the advice given by the govts. of the day re Dig for Britain and no doubt articles in newspapers /magazines of that era also offered advice to the domestic grower.
    There are a couple of other avenues you may wish to explore - Allotment Societies is one and the other possibility is the War Office.  The latter no longer exists as such but presumably some stuff may still be available ?  No idea but if you want to spend time looking ?
    No more suggestions from me I'm afraid and as going off the more recent posts your thread is causing a problem on the Forum, I'd call it a day if I was you.  You've got plenty to be going on with I think.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    edited April 2023
    @Chris-P-Bacon , I think you will find that almost everyone who has seen this thread, and his others, has complained about the rudeness of the OP, so you are clearly in a minority.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • philippasmith2  I am not looking for diagrams from average gardener
    that I am looking for diagrams from source of authority that were  aim
    at average gardener. that  means sources such as book, magazine,
    circulars and pamphlets. actually none sources provide any good info
    at all. 
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Not exactly gardening magazines @war garden 572 but there are leaflets  from the UK government's WWII "Dig for Victory" campaign available here https://dig-for-victory.org.uk/growing-advice/dig-victory-leaflets-ww2/ . I haven't time to look through it all but there might be something of interest there.

    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • war  garden 572war garden 572 Posts: 664
    edited April 2023
    jenny try here 
    https://archive.org/details/digforvictoryleaflets/leaflet 01/
    this where i posted a complete set of all 27 dig for victory leaflets
    I also posted a link in this thread. https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/1035811/dig-for-victory-leaflets
    I was first person to post complete set of those leaflets


    I asked for magazines names because that is the only area I 
    have not had a lot progress.  book, leaflets,newspapers  circulars and
    pamphlets have been  easy. magazine are tough nut to crack particularly in UK.
    for some reason I had better luck in Australia finding magazine articles.
    find digitized uk magazine sources pre 1950's is difficult.
    the only reason I found " 
    the Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society."
    is because the national library of India digitized the volumes of it they had. 
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