List of nineteenth-century British periodicals

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

The periodical press flourished in the nineteenth century: the [http://www.victorianperiodicals.com/series2/default.asp Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals] will eventually list over 100,000 titles. Nineteenth-century periodicals have been the focus of extensive indexing efforts, such as that of the [http://wellesley.chadwyck.co.uk/marketing/index.jsp Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900] , Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (now published electronically as part of [http://www.paratext.com/19cm_intro.htm 19th Century Masterfile] ), [http://www.sciper.org/ Science in the 19th-Century Periodical] and [http://www.ripm.org/ Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals, 1800-1950] . There are also a number of efforts to republish nineteenth-century periodicals online, including ProQuest's [http://pao.chadwyck.co.uk/marketing/journalLists.jsp?collection=PAOcolBP1 British Periodicals Collection I] and [http://pao.chadwyck.co.uk/marketing/journalLists.jsp?collection=PAOcolBP2 Collection II] , Gale's [http://www.galeuk.com/jisc19century/ 19th Century Periodicals Online] and [http://www.ncse.kcl.ac.uk/ nineteenth-century serials edition (ncse)] .

See also: List of eighteenth-century British periodicalsSee also: List of newspapers in the United Kingdom

List by year of publication

1800s

*"Weekly Dispatch" (1801-1928, continued as "Sunday Dispatch"). Weekly.
*"Christian Observer" (1802-1874). fn|S
*"The Guardian of Education" (1802-1806)
*"The Edinburgh Review" (1802-1900). Quarterly. fn|W fn|S
*"The Monthly Register and encylopedian magazine" (1802-1803). fn|PQ1
*"Political Register" (1802-1835). Weekly. Edited by William Cobbett
*"Annual Review and History of Literature" (1803-1809). Founded by Arthur Aikin. fn|PQ1
*"The Anti-Gallican: or Standard of British loyalty, religion and liberty" (1804). fn|PQ1
*"Youth's Magazine" (1805-1867). fn|S
*"Belle Assemblée" (1806-1832, continued as "Court Magazine" 1832-48). Established by John Bell. fn|S fn|G1 fn|PQ1
*"The Athenaeum: a magazine of literary and miscellaneous information" (1807-1809). Edited by John Aikin. fn|PQ1
*"" (1807). fn|PQ1
*"The Irish magazine, and monthly asylum for neglected biography" (1807-1815). fn|PQ1
*"The Edinburgh Annual Register" (1808-1826). Founded by Walter Scott. fn|PQ1
*"The Examiner" (1808-1886). Weekly.
*The "Monthly Repository" (1808-1838). Monthly. fn|N
*"The Tradesman; or, Commercial magazine" (1808-1812). fn|PQ1
*"The New Musical Magazine, Review, and Register" (1809-10). Monthly. fn|M
*"Quarterly Review" (1809-1967). Quarterly. fn|PQ1. fn|W
*"Ladies' Fashionable Repository" (1809-1829?; continues 1829-34 as "Raw's Ladies Fashionable Repository"; 1837-1905 "Pawsey's Ladies Fashionable Repository"). Annually. fn|G1

1810s

*"Hibernia Magazine, and Dublin monthly panorama" (1810-1811). fn|PQ1
*"Monthly Panorama" (1810). fn|PQ1
*"The Reflector: a quarterly magazine, on subjects of philosophy, politics, and the liberal arts" (1810-1811). fn|PQ1
*"Cheap Magazine" (1813-1815). Monthly, 4d.
*"Monthly Museum; or, Dublin literary repertory of arts, science, literature and miscellaneous information" (1813-1814). fn|PQ1
*"Lady's Monthly Museum; Or, Polite Repository of Amusement and Instruction" (1814-1830). fn|G1
*"The New Monthly Magazine" (1814-1884). Quarterly.fn|W
*"The Black Dwarf" (1817-1824) fn|S
*"Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine" (1817-1980). Monthly. fn|W fn|S
*"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). fn|PQ1
*"London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc." (1818-1836). Weekly.
*"The Quarterly Musical Magazine and Review" (1818-1828). fn|M
*"Christian Remembrancer" (1819-1868). Monthly 1819-44, quarterly 1844-68.
*"Edinburgh Monthly Review" (1819-1821). fn|PQ1
*"The English Musical Gazette; or, Monthly Intelligencer" (1819). Monthly. fn|M
*"Imperial Magazine" (1819-1834). Edited by Samuel Drew. fn|PQ1

1820s

*"John Bull" (1820-). Weekly. fn|G1
*"The London Magazine" (1822-1829)
*"The Fancy" (1822-26) fn|G1
*"Mirror of Literature" (1822-1847) fn|S
*"Bell's Life in London and Sporting Chronicle" (1822-1886) fn|G1
*"Sportsman's Annual" (1822?-1870). Annually. fn|G1
*"The Harmonicon" (1823-1833). Monthly. fn|M
*"The Lancet" (1823-)
*"The Portfolio" (1823-25)
*"Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction" (1823-41)
*"The Westminster Review" (1824-1914). Quarterly and then monthly. fn|W
*"The Children's Friend" (1824-). Monthly. fn|G1
*"Child's Companion" (1824-). Monthly. fn|G1
*"The World of Fashion and Continental Feuilletons" (1824-1851; continued 1852-79 as "The Ladies Monthly Magazine and World of Fashion"; 1880-1891 as "Monde Élegant; or the World of Fashion"). Monthly. fn|G1
*"The Age" (1825-1843; continues 1843-45 as "The Age and Argus", 1845-6 as "The English Gentleman"). Weekly. fn|G1
*"The Foreign Quarterly Review" (1827-1846). Quarterly. fn|W
*"Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society" (1827-)
*" Athenaeum" (1828-1921)
*"The Spectator" (1828-)
*"The London Review" (1829) fn|W
*"Pierce Egan's Book of Sports, and Mirror of Life" (1829-1836). fn|G1

1830s

*"Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country" (1830-1882). Monthly. fn|W
*"Comic Annual" (1830-1839, 1842) fn|S
*"The Metropolitan Magazine" (1831-1850)
*"Satirist; or, the Censor of the Times" (1831-1849). Weekly. fn|G1
*"Tait's Edinburgh Magazine" (1832-1855) fn|W
*"The Penny Magazine" (1832-1845). Weekly
*"Chambers's Edinburgh Journal" (1832-?)
*"Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music and Romance" (1832-1870). Monthly. fn|G1
*"Figaro in London" (1831-1839). Weekly. fn|G1
*"The Saturday Magazine" (1832-1844). Weekly
*"The Cheltenham Looker-On" (1833-1920)
*"The Dublin University Magazine" (1833-1877) fn|W
*"The British and Foreign Review; or, European Quarterly Journal" (1835-1844). Quarterly. fn|W
*"The London Review" (1835-1836) fn|W
*"The London and Westminster Review" (1836-1840) fn|W
*"The Musical World" (1836-1891). Weekly.fn|M [cite web|title=The Musical World - MWO - (London, 1836-1891) : Complete Introduction |url=http://www.nisc.com/ripm/volume_description/MWO.htm|accessdate=2008-07-28, Google books|OIkPAAAAYAAJ|The Musical World, 1888, and others]
*"The Dublin Review" (1836-1900). Quarterly, then monthly. fn|W
*"Bentley's Miscellany" (1837-1868). Monthly.fn|W
*"Publishers' Circular" (1837-1959). fn|N
*"Cleave's Penny Gazette" (1837-44). Weekly. fn|G1
*"Penny Satirist" (1837-1846; continues 1846 as "Penny Satirist and London Pioneer"; 1846-48 as "London Pioneer"; 1848 as "Literary Pioneer"). Weekly. fn|G1
*"Journal of the Statistical Society of London" (1838-86, continued as "Journal of the Royal Statistical Society")
*"The Monthly Chronicle: A National Journal of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art" (1838-1841). Monthly.fn|W
*"Northern Star" (1838-52). Weekly. fn|N
*"The Art Union", soon renamed "The Art Journal" (1839-1912)

1840s

*"The Musical Journal" (1840). Weekly. fn|M
*"Peter Parley's Annual" (1840-1892). Annually. fn|G1
*"Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal", later became "British Medical Journal" (1840-)
*"The Gardeners' Chronicle" (1841-)
*"Punch" (1841-1992). Weekly. fn|G1 fn|S
*"Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art" (1842-1854) fn|W
*"The Friend" (1842-). Weekly.
*"Illustrated London News" (1842-). Weekly.
*"The Musical Examiner" (1842-44). Weekly. fn|M
*"The Builder" (1843-). Weekly.
*"The Economist" (1843-). Weekly.
*"The Family Herald: A Domestic Magazine of Useful Information & Amusement" (1843-1940). Weekly.
*"News of the World" (1843-). Weekly.
*"Pictorial Times" (1843-48). Weekly.
*"The Musical Times" (1844-). Monthly. fn|M
*"The North British Review" (1844-1871). Quarterly. fn|W
*"The Prospective Review: A Quarterly Journal of Theology and Literature" (1845-1855). Quarterly. fn|W
*"The British Quarterly Review" (1845-1886). Quarterly. fn|W
*"Hood's Magazine and Comic Miscellany" (1845-49). Monthly.
*"The London Journal" (1845-1906). Weekly.
*"Sharpe's London Journal" (1845-1870). Weekly 1845-47, monthly 1848-70.
*"British Mothers' Magazine" (1845-64). Monthly. fn|G1
*"Juvenile Companion, and Sunday-School Hive" (1845-1891). Monthly. fn|G1
*"Le Follet" (1846-). Monthly. fn|G1
*"The Guardian" [Anglican newspaper] (1864-1951). Weekly.
*"Lady's Newspaper and Pictorial Times" (1847-1863). Weekly. fn|G1
*"The Rambler" (1848-1862). Weekly (Jan-Aug 1848), then monthly (until Feb 1589), then bimonthly (until 1862). fn|W
*"Eliza Cook's Journal" (1849-1853). Weekly.
*"Notes and Queries" (1849-). Weekly.

1850s

*"The Germ" (1850-). Monthly
*"Harper's New Monthly Magazine" (1850-). Monthly. fn|S
*"Household Words" (1850-1859). Weekly.
*"The Leader" (1850-60). Weekly. fn|N
*"Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Younger Members of the English Church" (1851-1899). Monthly. fn|G1
*"Racing Times" (1851-1868). Weekly. fn|G1
*"Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine" (1852-1874; 1877; 1880-1890). Monthly. fn|G1 fn|S
*"The Field (1853-)
*"The London Quarterly Review" (1853-1900). Quarterly. fn|W
*"The National Review" (1855-1864). Quarterly. fn|W
*"Illustrated Times" (1855-1872). Weekly.
*"Boy's Own Magazine" (1855-74) fn|G1
*"The Saturday Review of politics, literature, science, and art" (1855-1938). Weekly.
*"The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine" (1856) fn|W
*"The Engineer" (1856-)
*"The Atlantic Monthly" (1857-1915). Monthly.
*"Friendly Companion and Illustrated Instructor" (1857-). Monthly. fn|G1
*"The Atlantis" (1858-1860, 1862-1863, 1870) fn|W
*"English Women's Journal" (1858-1864). Monthly. fn|N
*"Ladies' Treasury: An Illustrated Magazine of Entertaining Literature" (1857-1895). Monthly. fn|G1
*"All the Year Round" (1859-1895). Weekly.
*"Bentley's Quarterly Review" (1859-1860). Quarterly. fn|W
*"The Eagle" (1859=)
*"Macmillan's Magazine" (1859-1900). Monthly. fn|W
*"Sporting Life" (1859-1998). Weekly, then daily after 1883.

1860s

*"The Cornhill Magazine" (1860-1975). Monthly.fn|W fn|S
*"" (1860-1900) fn|W
*"Baily's Monthly Magazine of Sports and Pastimes" (1860-1926). Monthly. fn|G1
*"Penny Illustrated Paper" (1861-1913). Weekly.
*"Fun" (1861-1901). Weekly. fn|G1
*"The Home and Foreign Review" (1862-1864) fn|W
*"Every Boy's Magazine" (1862-1889; titled "Routledge's Magazine for Boys" 1865-68, and "Young Gentleman's Magazine" 1869-73). Monthly. fn|G1
*"The Musical Standard" (1862-1933). Semimonthly 1862-3, biweekly 1864-6 weekly 1866-. fn|M
*"Sporting Gazette" (1862-1878; continued 1879 as "Sporting Gazette and Agricultural Journal"; 1880-1903 as "County Gentleman, Sporting Gazette and Agricultural Journal"; 1903-05 as "County Gentleman"; 1905-15 as "County Gentleman and Land and Water"; 1916-1920 as "Land and Water"). Weekly. fn|G1
*"Church Times" (1863-). Weekly.
*"The Theological Review: A Quarterly Journal of Religious Thought and Life" (1864-1879). Quarterly. fn|W
*"Alexandra Magazine" (1864-1865). Monthly. fn|G1
*"Entomologist's Monthly Magazine" (1864-) Monthly / quarterly?
*"The Geological Magazine" (1864-)
*"The Month" (1864-2001). Monthly.
*"The Musical Monthly and Repertoire of Literature, the Drama, and the Arts" (1864-65). Monthly. fn|M
*"The Owl: a Wednesday journal of politics and society" (1864-). Weekly.
*"The English Mechanic and World of Science (1865-1926). Weekly.
*"Fishing Gazette" (1865-1962). Weekly. fn|G1
*"The Fortnightly Review" (1865-1900). Fortnightly for a year, then monthly. fn|W
*"Merry & Wise; a magazine for young people" (1865-1872). Monthly. fn|G1
*"" (1865-1893). Monthly.
*"Sporting Times" (1865-1931). Weekly. fn|G1
*"The Contemporary Review" (1866-). Monthly. fn|W
*"Aunt Judy's Magazine" (1866-1885). Monthly. fn|G1
*"Chatterbox" (1866-1953) Weekly / monthly. fn|G1
*"Boys of England" (1866-99, continues as "Up-To-Date Boys' Journal" 1899-1901, "Boys of England" 1901?-1906). Weekly. fn|G1
*"Englishwoman's Review" (1866-1910). Monthly / quarterly. fn|G1
*"Father William's Stories" (1866-67, continues 1868-81 as "The Children's Treasury" and 1881 as "Our Darlings"). Monthly / weekly. fn|G1
*"Kind Words for Boys and Girls" (1866-1937). Monthly / weekly. fn|G1
*"Judy; or the London serio-comic journal" (1867-1907). Weekly. fn|G1
*"" (1867-1874). Monthly. fn|W
*"The Tomahawk" (1867-1870). Weekly. fn|G1 fn|N
*"Good Words for the Young" (1868-1877). Monthly / weekly. fn|G1
*"Academy" (1869-1916). Weekly. fn|S
*"The Graphic" (1869-1932). Weekly.
*"Nature" (1869-). Weekly.
*"The People's Friend" (1869-). Weekly.

1870s

*"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"). fn|G1
*"The Dark Blue" (1871-1873) fn|W
*"Little Folks; the magazine for boys and girls; a magazine for the young" (1871-1933). Weekly, then monthly. fn|G1
*"Our Young Folk's Weekly Budget" (1871-76, continues 1876-79 as "Young Folk's Weekly Budget", 1879-84 as "Young Folks", 1884-91 as "Young Folks", 1891-6 as "Old and Young", 1896-7 as "Folks-at-Home"). Weekly. fn|G1
*"St. Nicholas; Scribner's illustrated magazine for girls and boys" (1872-). Monthly. fn|G1
*"The New Quarterly Magazine" (1873-1880). Quarterly. fn|W
*"Journal of the Women's Education Union" (1873-1881). Monthly. fn|G1
*"Passing Events; at home and abroad" (1873). Weekly. fn|G1
*"Funny Folks" (1874-) fn|G1
*"The Women's Advocate" (1874). Monthly. fn|G1
*"Women and Work" (1874-1876). Weekly. fn|G1
*"Little Wide-Awake. A story book for little children" (1875-93) fn|G1
*"Myra's Journal of Dress and Fashion" (1875-). Monthly. fn|G1
*"The Dart" (1876-1911). Weekly. fn|G1
*"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. fn|G1
*"The Nineteenth Century" (1877-1900). Monthly.fn|W
*"The Observatory" (1877-)
*"The University Magazine" (1878-1880) fn|W
*"Routledge's Every Girl's Annual" (1878-1886?; continues 1887-1888 as "Every Girl's Annual"). Annually. fn|G1
*"Moonshine" (1879-1902). Weekly. fn|G1
*"Boy's Own Paper" (1879-1967). Weekly. fn|S fn|G1
*"Owl; a journal of wit and wisdom" (1879-). Weekly. fn|G1

1880s

*"" (1880-1884) fn|W
*"The Union Jack; a magazine of healthy, stirring tales of adventure by land or sea" (1880-1883). Weekly. fn|G1
*"Girl's Own Paper" (1880-1956). Weekly, then monthly. fn|G1
*"Young England magazine" (1880-1937). Weekly, then monthly, then annually.
*"British Chess Magazine" (1881-). Monthly.
*"Tit-Bits" (1881-). Weekly.
*"Kate Greenaway's Almanack" (1882-) fn|G1
*"Longman's Magazine" (1882-1900) fn|W
*"The Scottish Review" (1882-1900) fn|W
*"Surveyor" (1882-). Weekly.
*"Wildfowler's Shooting Times and Kennel News", later "Shooting Times" (1882-)
*"The National Review (London)" (1883-). fn|W
*"British Women's Temperance Journal" (1883-92; 1892 continues as "Wings") fn|G1
*"Ally Sloper's Half Holiday" (1884-). Weekly. fn|G1
*"(The) Amateur Photographer" (1884-)
*"Amateur Gardening" (1884-)
*"The Century Guild Hobby Horse" (1884-1894)
*"Horse & Hound" (1884-). Weekly. fn|G1
*"Justice" (1884-1925). Weekly.
*"Walter's Theatrical and Sporting Directory and Book of Reference" (1884-1893). Annually. fn|G1
*"Arbeyter Fraynd" (1885-1914)
*"Commonweal" (1885-1894). Monthly, then weekly.
*"The Quarterly Musical Review" (1885-88). Quarterly. fn|M
*"Freedom" (1886-)
*"Atalanta" (1887-98). Monthly. fn|G1
*"Murray's Magazine". (1887-1891). Monthly.
*"Our Little Dots. Pretty pictures and stories for little girls and boys" (1887-). Monthly. fn|G1
*"Lucifer" (1887-1897)
*"The Dawn" (1888-1896). Quarterly. fn|G1
*"Licensed Victuallers' Mirror" (1888-92, continues 1892- as "Sporting Mirror"). Weekly. fn|G1
*"Pick-Me-Up" (1888-1909). Weekly. fn|G1
*"The Women's Penny Paper" (1888-1890; continued 1891-1899 as "The Women's Herald"). Weekly. fn|G1
*"The Dial" (1889-1897), founded by Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon
*"The New Review" (1889-1897) fn|W
*English edition of "Puck" (1889-90)

1890s

*"Review of Reviews" (1890-1953). Monthly. fn|S
*"Golf" (1890-1899, continues 1899- as "Golf Illustrated") fn|G1
*"Illustrated Chips" (1890-) Weekly fn|G1
*"The Bookman" (1891-1934). Monthly.
*"Cycling" (1891-; briefly in the 1890s "Cycling and Moting"). Weekly fn|G1
*"The Strand Magazine" (1891-1950)
*"Chums" (1892-) fn|G1
*"Hearth and Home" (1892-) fn|G1
*"The Idler" (1892-1911). Monthly.
*"Isis (1892-). Weekly.
*"Bright Eyes: an annual for young folk" (1893-) fn|G1
*"Halfpenny Marvel" (1893-98, continues 1898- as "The Marvel") fn|G1
*"The New Quarterly Review" (1893-96). Quarterly. fn|M
*"The Woman at Home" (1893-1920; continued 1920-21 as "The Home Magazine"; 1922 as "The Ladies Home Magazine"; 1922-31 as "The Home Magazine and the Ladies Field"). Monthly / weekly. fn|G1
*"The New Age" (1894-1922?)
*"Picture Politics" (1894-1914). Monthly. fn|G1
*"Tiny Tots; an annual for very little people" (1894-1940). Monthly / fortnightly / annually. fn|G1
*"The Yellow Book" (1894-1897). Quarterly.
*"Union Jack" (1894-1933). Weekly. (re-named Detective Weekly in 1933, this continued until 1940 but was cancelled due to paper rationing)
*"The Autocar" (1895-)
*"Racing Illustrated" (1895-1896). fn|G1
*"The Savoy" (1896).
*"The Pageant" (1896-1897), edited by Charles Shannon and Gleeson White
*"The Big Budget" (1897-) fn|G1
*"Country Life" (1897-)
*"The Dome" (1897-1900). Quarterly, then monthly.
*"The Railway Magazine" (1897-). Monthly.
*"Dos Fraye Vort" (1898)
*"Model Engineer Magazine" (1898-)
*"The Storm-Bell" (1898-1900). Monthly. fn|G1
*"The Anglo-Saxon Review" (1899-1901). Quarterly.
*"The Captain (1899-1924) fn|G1

Notes

fnb|G1 Republished in Gale's 19th Century UK Periodicals Online: Series 1 – New Readerships
fnb|M Indexed by Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals, 1800-1950
fnb|N Republished in ncse (nineteenth-century serials edition)
fnb|PQ1 Republished in ProQuest's British Periodicals Collection I
fnb|P Indexed by Poole's Index
fnb|S Indexed by SciPer
fnb|W Indexed by Wellesley

External links

*Rosemary T. VanArsdel, [http://victorianresearch.org/periodicals.html Victorian Periodicals. Aids to Research: A Selected Bibliography]
* [http://www.ncse.kcl.ac.uk/resources/ncse_biblio.html Research Resources for Nineteenth-Century Periodicals]
* [http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~a0fs000/paullist.html List of periodicals available in London 1800-1810]
* [http://dl.lib.brown.edu:8080/exist/mjp/maglistviewer.xq List of Modern Magazines of Literary or Artistic Significance Operating During the Period 1890 — 1922] at the [http://dl.lib.brown.edu:8080/exist/mjp/index.xml Modernist Journals Project]