New Society 1631699 204976817 2008-04-11T19:05:02Z Neelix 1169106 moved [[New Society (magazine)]] to [[New Society]] over redirect: The qualifier is unnecessary as the title is unique. '''''New Society''''' was a left-of-centre [[United Kingdom|British]] weekly [[political]] [[magazine]] founded in 1962 [http://libcat0.york.ac.uk:80/F/5H61723GMLDDMMY1MFKRXB9G39GEF3Y7QPQH5LPN6AQEME568I-14637?func=item-global&doc_library=YOR01&doc_number=000215917&year=&volume=&sub_library=]. 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 [http://libcat0.york.ac.uk:80/F/5H61723GMLDDMMY1MFKRXB9G39GEF3Y7QPQH5LPN6AQEME568I-15330?func=item-global&doc_library=YOR01&doc_number=000213853&year=&volume=&sub_library=] 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 {{mag-stub}} [[Category:British political magazines]]