Company, August 1981
Everything tastes better outdoors
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Company, August 1981
This week we’re back with our new favourite magazine, Company! Company ran from 1978 to 2014 and while we definitely dipped in and out of it in our teenage years and 20s, it’s these early issues under Maggie Goodman and Gill Hudson that have really captured our hearts.
We last hung out in 1979 (did you listen to that episode?) and we’re back with it for 1981. And she does not disappoint. It’s a vibrant issue for a less-than-vibrant period in British history.
Calling itself “the livelier magazine,” (livelier than whom, we wonder) Company offers a diligently reported feature on part-time work. We’ve got a gorgeous feature on how to make the most of the summer. And, an absolute women’s mag staple… we go deep inside the workings of the male mind.
