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{{Short description|British art and literature magazine}}
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{{Infobox magazine
|image_file = Lilliput1946.jpg
|image_size = 150px
|image_caption = A December 1946 issue of ''Lilliput''
|founder = [[Stefan Lorant]]
|frequency = Monthly
|publisher = Pocket Publications
|founded = 1937
|firstdate = 1937
|finaldate = 1960
|country = United Kingdom
|based = [[London]]
|language = [[English language|English]]
}}
'''''Lilliput''''' was a small-format British monthly magazine of humour, short stories, photographs and the arts, founded in 1937 by the photojournalist [[Stefan Lorant]].<ref>Hallett, Michael. ''Stefan Lorant: godfather of photojournalism''. Scarecrow Press, 2006 {{ISBN|0810856824}} (p. 61)</ref><ref name="library">[http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/an-air-raid-siren-for-the-left-1272 An air raid siren for the Left], ''[[New Criterion]]'', 1 September 2005.</ref> The first issue came out in July and it was sold shortly after to [[Edward George Warris Hulton|Edward Hulton]], when editorship was taken over by [[Tom Hopkinson]] in 1940: his assistant editor from 1941 to 1948 was [[Kaye Webb]].<ref>{{cite odnb |last1=Trotman |first1=Felicity |title=Webb [married names Brierley, Hunter, Searle], Kathleen (Kaye) |id=60767 |origyear=2004 |year=2015}}</ref> During the 1950s ''Lilliput'' was edited by [[Jack Hargreaves]]. It had a reputation for publishing what were, for the time, fairly daring photographs of female nudes.
Contributors included [[H. E. Bates]], [[Gordon Beckles]], Sir [[Max Beerbohm]], [[James Boswell (artist)|James Boswell]], [[Nigel Balchin]] (author), [[Bill Brandt]], [[Brassaï]], [[Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy|Patrick Campbell]], [[Barbara Comyns]], [[C.E.M. Joad]], [[Aleister Crowley]], [[Robert Doisneau]], [[Dominick Elwes]], [[Ronald Ferns]], [[C. S. Forester]], [[John Glashan]], [[Zoltán Glass]], [[Sydney Jacobson]], [[Robert Graves]], [[Michael Heath (cartoonist)|Michael Heath]], [[Constant Lambert]], [[Ergy Landau]], [[Nancy Mitford]], [[Stephen Potter]], [[V. S. Pritchett]], [[E. Arnot Robertson]], [[Murray Sayle]], [[Ronald Searle]], Sir [[Sacheverell Sitwell]], and [[Ylla]]. In August 1960 it was absorbed into ''[[Men Only]]'' (which only later became pornographic).
*''Lilliput: Walter Trier's World.'' Tokyo: Pie, 2004. ISBN 4-89444-367-8 Presents 99 of Trier's covers for ''Lilliput''; text in both Japanese and English.▼
The first 147 issues (until late 1949) had covers illustrated by [[Walter Trier]]<ref name="library"/> with each design depicting a man, a woman, and a small Scottish Terrier dog in various situations and periods.
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A History and Bibliography of Lilliput was published in May 2024. The compiler was Chris Harte and it was released by Sports History Publishing.
''Lilliput Review'', an American periodical that started in 1989, is unrelated.
==Reading==
*Bennett, Richard, ed. ''The Bedside Lilliput.'' London: Hulton, 1950. Content from 1937–49.
▲*''Lilliput: Walter Trier's World.'' Tokyo: Pie, 2004. {{ISBN
*''The Lilliput Annual''
*Webb, Kaye, ed. ''Lilliput Goes to War.'' London: Hutchinson, 1985.
==Notes==
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[[Category:Magazines disestablished in 1960]]
[[Category:Defunct magazines published in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Photography in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Photojournalistic magazines]]
[[Category:1937 establishments in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:1960 disestablishments in the United Kingdom]]
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