From Middlemarch to Mickey Mouse: a short history of The Spectator’s books and arts pages

The magazine has spent 10,000 issues identifying the dominant cultural phenomena of the day and being difficult about them

From magazine issue: 25 April 2020

In one of his architecture columns John Betjeman revealed that his teddy bear Archie ‘has a very dreary, Nonconformist face’

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