19 - UK Edition - March 1977

19 lasted from March 1968 to May 2004 and in it's time was one of the leading magazines for young women. Aimed at 16 to 19 year olds the magazine proved to be a massive hit in the 70's with a good, well balanced and written mixture of fashion, beauty & health . Treating the reader as more mature and smarter than other magazines of the time, it fitted in well between the teenage magazines and the more traditional women's glossies that the readers would eventually move on to as they got older.

The magazine (and others of a similar style) steadily lost sales after 1980. 19 was the last survivor of the big three IPC titles. Honey merged with 19 in 1986 after circulation almost halved in five years; a similar fate befell Look Now in 1988. These mergers helped 19, but its sales were still down by about a fifth in 1990 over the decade. When it finally closed, IPC said: 'Over the last few years, the face of the teenage market has changed. The boundaries between the teen market sub-sectors have become blurred and sales patterns suggest that readership at the older, young women’s end appears to have migrated to the fashion and celebrity markets.' Final editor was Helen Bazuaye.