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# Au Revoir, Publican
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2011/03/au_revoir_publican/
- Published: 2011-03-31T16:43:09.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T15:10:19.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: career, the publican

![Publican Newspaper - October 1996](https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2011/03/October_1996.jpg?resize=265%2C265 "October_1996.jpg")

In the mid-90s, I finally got myself out of university, and into the working population. And my first job was on a weekly B2B magazine – [for the pub trade](http://www.thepublican.com/index.asp?ref=onemanandhisblog.com). This week, that publication puts out its last issue, before it [merges with its long-term rival](http://www.thepublican.com/story.asp?sectioncode=7&storycode=69295&ref=onemanandhisblog.com), the *[Morning Advertiser](http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)* (called *the Licensee* back then)

The current staff have just published a [retrospective of the title’s 36 years](http://www.thepublican.com/story.asp?sectioncode=6&storycode=69291&ref=onemanandhisblog.com), and have included an issue I worked on (right). I remember vividly the very first sample crate of the very first alcopop ([Hooper’s Hooch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooper's%5FHooch?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)) arriving in the office, not long after I joined, and the staff generally poo-pooing the concept. Oops.

Another little bit of the print heritage of B2B passes into history. Of all the magazines I’ve worked on full-time, only one is still publishing now. Times really are changing…