1. Research into music industries and institutions The International Publishing Corporation Ltd (IPC) was formed in 1963 after the merger of the UK's three leading magazine publishers – George Newnes, Odhams Press and Fleetway Publications – who came together with the Mirror Group to form the International Publishing Corporation (IPC). Since then, IPC have produced many different genres of magazines such as men's lifestyle brands, woman's weeklies, TV entertainment and lifestyle brands. But those three original magazine businesses each had their own illustrious history, having been established in 1881, 1890 and 1880 respectively, with a number of the titles they launched in the late 19th Century still being published today under the IPC umbrella. And when The Field, launched in 1853, joined the IPC stable in 1994 following the acquisition of Harmsworth Magazines, it saw our family tree reach back even further.