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'''''New Society''''' was a left-of-centre [[United Kingdom|British]] weekly [[political]] [[magazine]] founded in 1962
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Its focus was the [[social sciences]], which were just becoming 'accepted' as a respectable academic area at that time. This also meant that a booming jobs market in the area soon produced a good advertisement income-flow.
It was modelled to a certain extent on the already-flourishing ''[[New Scientist]]'' magazine, which had been founded in 1952
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and did for the sciences what ''New Society'' aimed to do for the social sciences. However, New Society was less successful and had a shorter life-span.
New Society was acquired in [[1988]] by the ''[[New Statesman]]'', which merged the editorial teams and for the following eight years was renamed '''''New Statesman and Society''''', before reverting to its former name.[[http://www.newstatesman.com/nsabout.htm]]
Notable members of staff or contributors included:
*[[Timothy Raison]] (Editor 1962-68)
*[[Paul Barker (writer)|Paul Barker]] (Editor 1968-86)
*[[Reyner Banham]]
*[[John Berger]]
*[[Richard Boston]]
*[[David Cooper (psychiatrist)|David Cooper]]
*[[Frank Parkin]]
*[[Ray Gosling]]
*[[Paul Harrison (pantheist)]]
*[[Caroline St John-Brooks]]
*[[Jeremy Lawrence]]
*[[David Lipsey]]
*[[Colin MacInnes]]
*[[George Melly]]
*[[Richard Neville (writer)|Richard Neville]]
*[[Peter Hall (urbanist)|Peter Hall]]
*[[Melanie Phillips]]
*[[Cedric Price]]
*[[Dennis Potter]]
*[[Robert Taylor (journalist)|Robert Taylor]]
*[[Michael Young]]
*[[Peter Watson (intellectual historian)|Peter Watson]]
==Bibliography==
*Paul Barker (1972) ''One for Sorrow, Two for Joy: Ten Years of "New Society"'', Allen and Unwin, ISBN 0-04-300041-X
*Paul Barker (ed) (1977) ''Arts in Society'' (reprint: 2006, Five Leaves Publications, ISBN 1-905512-07-4) - contains essays by John Berger and [[Angela Carter]], among others
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