The Spectator now has now reached a milestone unmatched in the global press, by becoming the first magazine to publish a 10,000th issue. To do justice to the history of the world’s oldest weekly magazine is a complex, perhaps even foolhardy task. Having spent the last three years piecing together its past, I can confirm that half a million multi-columned pages demand energetic trawling and patient sifting.
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David Butterfield is a Fellow of Queens’ College, Cambridge. His new history of The Spectator is available at a discount for subscribers. The complete Spectator archive is available here
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