History
The magazine was started in 1968 by Roy Faiers of Lincolnshire, who held it as a private company (This England International Ltd.). Faiers remained editor-in-chief until 2009, when the company was bought by DC Thomson of Dundee, owners of the Sunday Post, Beano, Dandy and other publications. Faiers was succeeded as editor by his former deputy editor, Stephen Garnett. Now based in Cheltenham, This England has a circulation of 100,000.
The name This England comes from the declamations of John of Gaunt in Act II, Scene I of Shakespeare's King Richard II: "This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle... This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England."
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