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Lincolnshire Life Magazine - how we got here

Lincolnshire Life is a monthly magazine devoted to the history, culture and contemporary life of Lincolnshire, England. It is owned by an independent publishing company, County Life Ltd, which has its headquarters in Lincoln, England.

The county’s longest established journal, Lincolnshire Life was founded by Roy Faiers and Charles Ekberg in 1961 as a quarterly publication. After two years it was appearing every two months, and within four years of its launch it had begun to appear monthly. Encouraged by his success, Roy Faiers set up a number of other county magazines along similar lines, including ‘Leicestershire and Rutland Life’, ‘Cotswold Life’ and ‘Sussex Life’, and eventually sold all his county magazines in order to concentrate on another best seller - the national magazine ‘This England’.

Lincolnshire Life was originally set up, in the words of its founder, as "the magazine of county life past and present". Its first editor, Roy Faiers, sought to reflect the life and history of the county of Lincolnshire, and though some things have changed since the early 1960s the present-day make-up of the magazine is still true to Roy’s original aims.

In the twenty-first century the magazine boasts a high proportion of full-colour articles and a very high ratio of editorial to advertising. It features a lively monthly letters page, an extensive listings diary, a monthly page of book reviews, history, homes and gardens, gardening, features covering the arts, rural activities as well as fashion, motoring, antiques and restaurants. But the backbone of the magazine is made up of in-depth, one-off features which cover all aspects of life in Lincolnshire past and present.

Thus Lincolnshire Life follows in the footsteps of predecessors such as ‘The Lincolnshire Magazine’ (1801), ‘Old Lincolnshire’ (1883-5) and ‘The Lincolnshire Poacher’ (1952-5). Indeed, the first issues of Lincolnshire Life bore the words ‘incorporating The Lincolnshire Poacher’ on their cover, and the Poacher’s former editor, David Robinson (no relation) was county advisor and a contributor when Lincolnshire Life was first launched. He went on to edit the magazine and now acts as the journal’s editorial consultant.

In 2008 Lincolnshire Life continues to go from strength to strength, with over 50,000 readers enjoying their favourite magazine in all four corners of the globe.

County Life Ltd is a family-run company and is headed by Caroline Bingham, who is the Chief Executive.