The plans to launch the magazine began following the international surrealist exhibition in London in 1936.
they objected to the Nazis' views on "degenerate art" and the Marxists' notion "that modern society looks with aversion on any innovative creation in art and literature which threatens the cultural system on which that society is based, whether it be from the point of view of thought or of meaning.
"[8] London Bulletin folded before World War II,[10] and its last issue, numbered 18–20, appeared in June 1940.
[5] Humphrey Jennings contributed to the first two issues of the magazine and then began to work with Gordon Onslow Ford as an assistant editor to Mesens.
[3] Major contributors of London Bulletin included Herbert Read, Samuel Beckett, Eileen Agar, John Banting, Conroy Maddox, the French Paul Éluard, André Breton, and Francis Picabia, as well as Belgian surrealist writer Marcel Mariën.