[1] This content and focus has sometimes caused it to be accused of appealing to consumers of pornography, although sexual nudity is absent from its pages.

[2] These magazines covered health topics such as diet, exercise, herbalism and general advice on living a healthy and efficient life.

After the Second World War, nudism became more popular and the monthly H&E – as it became known – promoted the lifestyle option, and throughout the 1950s and into the 1960s the magazine's reputation as the "nudist bible" grew.

By the 1970s, cheaper foreign travel allowed many more British naturists to visit the south of France, Spain, Greece and Yugoslavia.

Over its long history, notable photographers such as Walter Bird, Stephen Glass,[3] Bertram Park and Yvonne Gregory[4] have worked for the magazine.