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24/03/1992 Punch, Britain's oldest satirical magazine, closes after 150 years

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Punch magazine closing 1992

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Punch Magazine (1962)

Punch was a British weekly magazine of humor and satire founded by Henry Mayhew and Ebenezer Landells. After the 1940s, when its circulation peaked, it went into a long decline and closed. It was revived in 1996 but closed again in 2002.
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