# Oldest Magazine

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-magazine/25105>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 10, 2000, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-magazine/25105 "2000-07-10T13:49:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 10, 2000, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-magazine/25105/1 "2000-07-10T13:49:45Z")

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What is the world’s oldest magazine (i.e. first in publication)? A friend of mine wants to use this information in a presentation and can’t find it anywhere. I know the teeming million’s won’t let me down.

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2000, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-magazine/25105/2 "2000-07-10T14:17:49Z")

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Still in publication?

“The oldest continuing periodical in the world is Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, published in  
London, Great Britain, which first appeared on 6 March 1665. Curtis’s Botanical Magazine has been in  
continuous publication since 1 February 1787 as several ‘parts’ a year forming a series of continuously  
numbered volumes.”

Remember, check the Genuiss Book of Records