Tatler

The original Tatler was founded in 1709 by one Richard Steele, with the sole aim of publishing news and gossip heard in the London coffee houses of the day. It largely ignored political issues and targeted the upper classes reporting on parties and society events, very much the ‘Hello’ magazine of the 18th Century. The publication as we know it today, began in 1901 as a weekly magazine, named after Steele's original periodical, and was filled with news, pictures and social events amongst the middle to upper classes. Between the 1940’s and 1960’s having absorbed the Bystander magazine it was known as Tatler & Bystander but in 1968 the word Bystander was dropped and its publication became a monthly issue. Now owned by Condé Nast Publications it has employed over its 300 plus years of existence the likes of Jonathan Swift, Mark Boxer and Winston Churchill’s granddaughter Emma Soames. Artists who been associated with the magazine by way of commission include H. M. Bateman, Percy Bradshaw, Louis Baumer, Alfred Bestall, George Belcher and Bruce Bairnsfather.