One Hundred and Fifty Years of The Field Magazine
A.D. Harvey celebrates the 150th birthday of The Field.
This month The Field celebrates its 150th birthday. A monthly that started out in 1853 as a weekly, it is not quite as venerable as The Observer (founded 1791) or The Economist (founded 1843) but it is older than any other currently monthly publication, and is the world’s oldest rural affairs magazine. By comparison, Country Life, established as a glossier and more expensive weekly rival and today generally perceived as aiming to appeal to people interested in the countryside rather than living and working in it, dates only from 1897.
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