List of 19th-century British periodicals

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This is a list of British periodicals established in the 19th century, excluding daily newspapers.

The periodical press flourished in the 19th century: the Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals plans to eventually list more 100,000 titles; the current Series 3 lists 73,000 titles. 19th-century periodicals have been the focus of extensive indexing efforts, such as that of the Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824–1900, Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (now published electronically as part of 19th Century Masterfile), Science in the 19th-Century Periodical and Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals, 1800–1950. There are also a number of efforts to republish 19th-century periodicals online, including ProQuest's British Periodicals Collection I and Collection II, Gale's 19th Century UK Periodicals Online[1] and Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (ncse).[2]

List by year of publication

1800s

La Belle Assemblée, title page, Volume III, July to December 1807.
  • Weekly Dispatch (1801–1928, continued as Sunday Dispatch). Weekly.
  • Christian Observer (1802–1874).[f]
  • The Guardian of Education (1802–1806)
  • The Edinburgh Review (1802–1900). Quarterly.[g][f]
  • The Monthly Register and encyclopedian magazine (1802–1803).[e]
  • Political Register (1802–1835). Weekly. Edited by William Cobbett
  • Annual Review and History of Literature (1803–1809). Annual. Founded by Arthur Aikin; edited by Aikin (volumes 1–6) and Thomas Rees (volume 7).[3][e]
  • The Anti-Gallican: or Standard of British loyalty, religion and liberty (1804).[e]
  • The Eclectic Review (1805–1868). Monthly,
  • Youth's Magazine (1805–1867).[f]
  • La Belle Assemblée (1806–1832, continued as Court Magazine 1832–1848). Established by John Bell.[f][a][e]
  • Le Beau Monde (1806–1810). Published by John Browne Bell.
  • General Review of British and Foreign Literature (1806). Published by William Nicholson.
  • The Monthly Repository (1806–1838). Monthly.[c]
  • The Athenaeum: a magazine of literary and miscellaneous information (1807–1809). Edited by John Aikin.[e]
  • The Cabinet (1807–1809).
  • The Director: a weekly literary journal (1807).[e]
  • The Irish magazine, and monthly asylum for neglected biography (1807–1815).[e]
  • The Edinburgh Annual Register (1808–1826). Founded by Walter Scott.[e]
  • The Examiner (1808–1886). Weekly.
  • The Tradesman; or, Commercial magazine (1808–1812).[e]
  • Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (1809–).
  • The New Musical Magazine, Review, and Register (1809–1810). Monthly.[b]
  • Quarterly Review (1809–1967). Quarterly.[e].[g]
  • Ladies' Fashionable Repository (1809–1829?; continues 1829–1834 as Raw's Ladies Fashionable Repository; 1837–1905 Pawsey's Ladies Fashionable Repository). Annually.[a]
  • Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions, and politics (1809–1829). Established by Rudolph Ackermann.
  • Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts (1797–1813). Founded by William Nicholson.

1810s

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. XXV, January–June 1829. William Blackwood, Edinburgh and T. Cadell, Strand, London
  • Hibernia Magazine, and Dublin monthly panorama (1810–1811).[e]
  • Monthly Panorama (1810).[e]
  • The Reflector: quarterly magazine, on subjects of philosophy, politics, and the liberal arts (1810–1811).[e]
  • British Review (1811–1825). Quarterly. Founded by John Weylund; edited by Weylund (for 1 or 2 numbers), then by William Roberts (until 1822). Published by John Hatchard.[4]
  • Cheap Magazine (1813–1815). Monthly, 4d.
  • Monthly Museum; or, Dublin literary repertory of arts, science, literature and miscellaneous information (1813–1814).[e]
  • Champion (1814–1822). Edited by John Scott.
  • Lady's Monthly Museum; Or, Polite Repository of Amusement and Instruction (1814–1830).[a]
  • The New Monthly Magazine (1814–1884). Quarterly.[g]
  • Augustan Review (1815–1816). Monthly.
  • British Lady's Magazine (1815–1818). Monthly. Published by John Souter.
  • Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette (1816–; became the Gazette and Herald in 1956). Weekly.
  • The Black Dwarf (1817–1824)[f]
  • Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1817–1980). Monthly.[g][f]
  • The Ǣgis; or, Independent weekly expositor (July–September 1818). Weekly,
  • The Kaleidoscope; or, Literary and Scientific Mirror. Weekly. Published at Liverpool by Egerton Smith. (1818–1831).[e]
  • The Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc. (1818–1836). Weekly.
  • The Quarterly Musical Magazine and Review (1818–1828).[b]
  • Christian Remembrancer (1819–1868). Monthly 1819–1844, quarterly 1844–1868.
  • Edinburgh Monthly Review (1819–1821).[e]
  • The English Musical Gazette; or, Monthly Intelligencer (1819). Monthly.[b]
  • Imperial Magazine (1819–1834). Edited by Samuel Drew.[e]
  • Indicator (1819–1821). Weekly. Published by Joseph Appleyard. Edited by Leigh Hunt.

1820s

1830s

The Penny Magazine, Issue for 27 October 1832

1840s

Illustrated London News, first issue, front page

1850s

The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, title page, September 1861

1860s

Cornhill Magazine, January 1862

1870s

The Boy's Own Paper, front page, 11 April 1891
  • Truth (British periodical) (1877–1957)
  • Shield; the Anti-Contagious Diseases Acts Association's weekly circular (1870–1886; continues 1897–1916 as The Shield / Josephine Butler Society; 1916–1933 as The Shield; a review of moral and social hygiene).[a]
  • The Phoenix (1870–1873). Monthly, with a focus on Asia.
  • The London Figaro; (1870–1898). Literary and satirical magazine. Daily for the first 9 months, then weekly.
  • The Dark Blue (1871–1873)[g]
  • Little Folks; the magazine for boys and girls; a magazine for the young (1871–1933). Weekly, then monthly.[a]
  • Our Young Folk's Weekly Budget (1871–1876, continues 1876–1879 as Young Folk's Weekly Budget, 1879–1884 as Young Folks, 1884–1891 as Young Folks, 1891–1896 as Old and Young, 1896–1897 as Folks-at-Home). Weekly.[a]
  • St. Nicholas; Scribner's illustrated magazine for girls and boys (1872–). Monthly.[a]
  • The New Quarterly Magazine (1873–1880). Quarterly.[g]
  • Journal of the Women's Education Union (1873–1881). Monthly.[a]
  • Passing Events; at home and abroad (1873). Weekly.[a]
  • Funny Folks (1874–1894); Vol. IV available openly and freely from the UF Digital Collections[a]
  • The Women's Advocate (1874). Monthly.[a]
  • Women and Work (1874–1876). Weekly.[a]
  • Little Wide-Awake. A story book for little children (1874–1893)[a] (Lucy Sale-Barker, editor)
  • Myra's Journal of Dress and Fashion (1875–) Monthly.[a]
  • The Dart (1876–1911). Weekly.[a]
  • Mind (1876–)
  • Women's Union Journal (1876–1890; continued 1891 as Quarterly Report and Review; 1891–1919 as Women's Trade Union Review). Monthly / quarterly.[a]
  • The Nineteenth Century (1877–1900). Monthly.[g]
  • The Observatory (1877–)
  • The Statist (1878–1967). Sub-titled 'a weekly journal for economics and men of business' until 1894; thereafter 'an independent journal of finance and trade'. Weekly.
  • The University Magazine (1878–1880)[g]
  • Routledge's Every Girl's Annual (1878–1886?; continues 1887–1888 as Every Girl's Annual). Annually.[a]
  • Moonshine (1879–1902). Weekly.[a]
  • Boy's Own Paper (1879–1967). Weekly.[f][a]
  • Owl; a journal of wit and wisdom (1879–1911[8]). Weekly.[a]

1880s

The Amateur Photographer, Vol. 1, No 1, 10 October 1884, front cover.
  • The Modern Review: A Quarterly Magazine (1880–1884)[g]
  • The Union Jack; a magazine of healthy, stirring tales of adventure by land or sea (1880–1883). Weekly.[a]
  • Girl's Own Paper (1880–1956). Weekly, then monthly.[a]
  • Young England magazine (1880–1937). Weekly, then monthly, then annually.
  • British Chess Magazine (1881–). Monthly.
  • Tit-Bits (1881–). Weekly.
  • Knowledge (1881–1918). Weekly, then monthly.
  • Kate Greenaway's Almanack (1882–)[a]
  • Longman's Magazine (1882–1900). Monthly.[g]
  • The Scottish Review (1882–1900)[g]
  • Surveyor (1882–). Weekly.
  • Wildfowler's Shooting Times and Kennel News, later Shooting Times (1882–)
  • The National Review (London) (1883–)[g]
  • British Women's Temperance Journal (1883–1892; 1892 continues as Wings).[a]
  • Ally Sloper's Half Holiday (1884–). Weekly.[a]
  • (The) Amateur Photographer (1884–). Weekly, 2d.
  • Amateur Gardening (1884–)
  • The Century Guild Hobby Horse (1884–1892, continued 1893–1894 as The Hobby Horse). Quarterly.
  • Horse & Hound (1884–). Weekly.[a]
  • Justice (1884–1925). Weekly.
  • Walter's Theatrical and Sporting Directory and Book of Reference (1884–1893). Annually.[a]
  • Arbeyter Fraynd (1885–1914)
  • Commonweal (1885–1894). Monthly, then weekly.
  • The Quarterly Musical Review (1885–1888). Quarterly.[b]
  • The Lady (1885–)
  • Freedom (1886–)
  • Atalanta (1887–1898). Monthly.[a]
  • Stories Illustrated (1887–1888); founded by John Francon Williams.
  • Murray's Magazine. (1887–1891). Monthly.
  • Our Little Dots. Pretty pictures and stories for little girls and boys (1887–) Monthly.[a]
  • Lucifer (1887–1897)
  • The Dawn (1888–1896). Quarterly.[a]
  • Licensed Victuallers' Mirror (1888–1892, continues 1892– as Sporting Mirror). Weekly.[a]
  • Pick-Me-Up (1888–1909). Weekly.[a]
  • The Women's Penny Paper (1888–1890; continued 1891–1899 as The Women's Herald). Weekly.[a]
  • Boys' Brigade Gazette (1889–) Quarterly.
  • The Dial (1889–1897), founded by Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon.
  • The New Review (1889–1897)[g] at Google books
  • English edition of Puck (1889–1890)
  • The Handy Shipping Guide (1887–1988). Weekly; (2009–) Daily.
  • Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial (1889–1903) founded by the Harmsworth Brothers.

1890s

Bound volume of The Strand Magazine for January–June 1894
  • Review of Reviews (1890–1953). Monthly.[f]
  • Golf (1890–1899, continues 1899– as Golf Illustrated)[a]
  • Illustrated Chips (1890–) Weekly.[a]
  • Golden Gates (1891–1892, continues 1892-1895 as Winter's Weekly).
  • The Bookman (1891–1934). Monthly.
  • Cycling (1891–; briefly in the 1890s Cycling and Moting). Weekly.[a]
  • The Strand Magazine (1891–1950)
  • The Ludgate Monthly (1891–1893; 1893–1895 as The Ludgate Illustrated Magazine; 1895–1901 as The Ludgate).
  • Chums (1892–)[a]
  • Hearth and Home (1892–)[a]
  • The Idler (1892–1911). Monthly.
  • Isis (1892–) Weekly.
  • The Pagan Review (1892). Discontinued after one issue.
  • Bright Eyes: an annual for young folk (1893–)[a]
  • Halfpenny Marvel (1893–1898, continues 1898– as The Marvel)[a]
  • The New Quarterly Review (1893–1896). Quarterly.[b]
  • Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion / Trafodion Anrhydedd Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorion (1893–)
  • The Woman at Home (1893–1920; continued 1920–1921 as The Home Magazine; 1922 as The Ladies Home Magazine; 1922–1931 as The Home Magazine and the Ladies Field). Monthly / weekly.[a]
  • The New Age (1894–1922?)
  • Picture Politics (1894–1914). Monthly.[a]
  • Tiny Tots; an annual for very little people (1894–1940). Monthly / fortnightly / annually.[a]
  • The Yellow Book (1894–1897). Quarterly.
  • Union Jack (1894–1933). Weekly. (renamed Detective Weekly in 1933, this continued until 1940 but was cancelled due to paper rationing).
  • The Autocar (1895–)
  • Racing Illustrated (1895–1896).[a]
  • The Savoy (1896).
  • The Pageant (1896–1897), edited by Charles Shannon and Gleeson White.
  • Big Budget (1897–1909)[a]
  • Country Life (1897–)
  • The Dome (1897–1900). Quarterly, then monthly.
  • The Railway Magazine (1897–). Monthly.
  • Dos Fraye Vort (1898)
  • The Ladies Field (1898–1922)
  • Model Engineer Magazine (1898–)
  • The Storm-Bell (1898–1900). Monthly.[a]
  • The Anglo-Saxon Review (1899–1901). Quarterly.
  • The Captain (1899–1924)[a]
  • Musical Budget (1892–?). Monthly.
  • Home and Hearth (1891–1914). Weekly.
  • The Album: A Journal of Photographs of Men, Women, and Events of the Day (1895-1896?). Published by Ingram Brothers, 198, Strand, London.[9]

Notes

  1. Republished in Gale's 19th Century UK Periodicals Online: Series 1 – New Readerships; selected volumes are available for free, full open access in the UF Digital Collections
  2. Indexed by Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals, 1800–1950
  3. Republished in ncse (19th-century serials edition)
  4. Republished by the National Library of Wales in Welsh Journals Online
  5. Republished in ProQuest's British Periodicals Collection I
  6. Indexed by SciPer
  7. Indexed by Wellesley

References

  1. ^ "19th Century UK Periodicals, Part 1". Gale. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
  2. ^ "Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition". NCSE. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
  3. ^ Hayden, John O. (1969). The Romantic Reviewers, 1802–1824. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. p. 53.
  4. ^ a b Hayden, John O. (1969). The Romantic Reviewers, 1802–1824. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
  5. ^ "The Musical World – MWO – (London, 1836–1891) : Complete Introduction". Archived from the original on 4 August 2008. Retrieved 28 July 2008., The Musical World, 1888 at Google Books, and others.
  6. ^ "The Illustrated Weekly Times - Google Search".
  7. ^ The Victorians and Sport, Mike Huggins, Bloomsbury Publishing.
  8. ^ Cawood, Ian; Upton, Chris (2016). Joseph Chamberlain: International Statesman, National Leader, Local Icon. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 201.
  9. ^ “Launched as a high-class… monthly, the advertisements stressed that it was printed on glossy ‘enamelled paper’. The magazine consisted almost entirely of large photographs of celebrities and this smooth, shiny surface would have yielded the best results.” (G. Beegan, The Mass Image: A Social History of Photomechanical Reproduction in Victorian London (London, 2008, p. 79).

External links

  • Rosemary T. VanArsdel, Victorian Periodicals. Aids to Research: A Selected Bibliography
  • Research Resources for Nineteenth-Century Periodicals
  • List of periodicals available in London 1800–1810
  • List of Modern Magazines of Literary or Artistic Significance Operating During the Period 1890 — 1922 at the Modernist Journals Project