Leader Magazine

 ( 1950 Disestablishments In The United Kingdom ) 

Leader Magazine was a weekly pictorial magazine National Archives published in the United Kingdom. The magazine was first owned by Pearson and then by Odhams. Later it became part of Hulton Press. The headquarters of the magazine was in London. The last issue of the weekly was published on 10 June 1950 and It was incorporated in Picture Post on 17 June 1950.

Contributors included Stephen Potter ISBN search (editor), Kay Dick (literary critic), Anthony Carson, Orson Welles, Edgar Lustgarten, Lesley Blanch, University of Bristol Theatre Collection Leslie Illingworth, Eric Partridge, cartoonist Victor Weisz, Stephen King-Hall. Leader Magazine July 20, 1946 Theatre critic John Barber was also sub-editor at one time. The Times Obituaries Another drama critic was Herbert Farjeon. University of Bristol Theatre Collection Kaye Webb was theatre correspondent from 1947-49. Obituary: Kaye Webb The Independent (London), Jan 18, 1996

Other contributors included Denzil Batchelor, Gordon Beckles, Prof. D. W. Brogan, Leader Magazine May 4 1946 Barbara Cartland, Hayden Church, Susan Garth, Walter Hingston, Robert Lantz, Laurie Lee, Leader Magazine July 16, 1949 Jean Paul Penez, John Maytime, Ruth Miller, Leader Magazine May 18, 1946 Hugh Newman, Geoffrey Sharp, Charles Stuart, Stephen G. Watts,"The Man who wasn't Monty", Leader Magazine, 3 June 1950 and Eric Williams.

• Website containing summary of editions from 9 April 1949 (Vol 6 no. 23) to 20 May 1950 (Vol 7 no. 29)