One of my favourite magazines is The Lady. It's a very old established publication going back more than 100 years.My grandmother used to buy it when it was printed in black and white, with only the title in a different colour. I'd often look at the Classifieds for jobs or holidays, only occasionally reading the articles then as it seemed to be a magazine for the "older reader". All has changed it would seem and it now aims at a younger readership and covers all manner of interesting topics. This week, I'm pleased to say that its cover stood out for me on the supermarket shelf, as it has stamps on the front! It carries a very well written feature on the latest stamp issue, Great Britons, issued on 16th April. The ten 1st class stamps portray Britons famous in various fields whose 100th or 150th birth anniversaries are in 2013.
Those featured on The Lady front cover are: Vivien Leigh, Actress, Peter Cushing, Actor, Norman Parkinson, photographer, and the cookery writer Elizabeth David. Biographical details are contained in the article in the magazine together with the other stamp portraits of the Prime Minister David Lloyd George, politician John Archer, Composer Benjamin Britten, anthropologist Mary Leaky, football manager Bill Shankly and the Broadcaster David Dimbleby.
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