Blackwood's Magazine was a
British magazine and
miscellany printed between 1817 and 1980. It was founded by the
publisher William Blackwood and was originally called the
Edinburgh Monthly Magazine. The first number appeared in April 1817 under the editorship of
Thomas Pringle and James Cleghorn. The journal was unsuccessful and Blackwood fired Pringle and Cleghorn and relaunched the journal as
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine under his own editorship. The journal eventually adopted the shorter name and from the relaunch often referred to itself as
Maga. The title page bore the image of
George Buchanan, a 16th-century Scottish historian.