About the Guardian Weekly
The Guardian Weekly is one of the world's best-selling international weekly newspapers. It offers a unique blend of international news, politics, culture and comment, drawing on the considerable editorial resources of the Guardian, with selected features from the Observer, the Washington Post and Le Monde.
Get a taste of the Guardian Weekly by viewing an online sample copy or try a subscription and get your first four weeks free.
A proud history
The Guardian Weekly is one of the world's oldest international newspapers, originally founded to help foster democracy in Europe after the First World War. Its first edition was printed a week after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, and included the following as a statement of mission: "We aim at presenting what is best and most interesting in the Guardian, what is most distinctive and independent of time, in a compact weekly form".
Comprehensive global coverage
As well as containing a diverse range of news and comment pieces, the Guardian Weekly includes sections on culture, science, book reviews and international development.
Our monthly education supplement reports on the latest developments in English-language education and provides complete lesson plans for TEFL teachers based on news features.
Diverse readership
The Guardian Weekly is read by more than 200,000 people in over 100 countries. Coming from all backgrounds and walks of life, Guardian Weekly readers are often passionate contributors to society. Indeed, Nelson Mandela read the Guardian Weekly whilst he was incarcerated in Pollsmoor prison, describing it in his autobiography as a "window on the wider world".
"I find the Guardian Weekly a great resource for generating ideas and keeping in touch with debates about what is going on in the world...In this era of sound bite politics and tabloid journalism, the Guardian Weekly is an antidote for ignorance." Professor Simon Adams
"The Guardian Weekly helps keep me abreast of global events and I support the soul and conscience of the newspaper - often focusing on the marginalised and poor, allowing their voices to reach us." Breda Gahan
"We let God sort out the priorities. But we do know what's going on. The convent gets a copy of the Guardian Weekly. "Mother Basil
How to get a copy
You can subscribe to the Guardian Weekly and get your first four weeks free, as well as benefiting from the convenience of having the paper delivered directly to your door anywhere in the world.
