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 will eventually list over 100,000 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 Periodicals Online and nineteenth-century serials edition (ncse).

See also: List of eighteenth-century British periodicals and 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).
• The Guardian of Education (1802–1806)
• The Edinburgh Review (1802–1900). Quarterly.
• The Monthly Register and encyclopedian magazine (1802–1803).
• Political Register (1802–1835). Weekly. Edited by William Cobbett
• Annual Review and History of Literature (1803–1809). Founded by Arthur Aikin.
• The Anti-Gallican: or Standard of British loyalty, religion and liberty (1804).
• The Eclectic Review (1805–1868). Monthly
• Youth's Magazine (1805–1867).
• La Belle Assemblée (1806–1832, continued as Court Magazine 1832–48). Established by John Bell.
• The Monthly Repository (1806–1838). Monthly.
• The Athenaeum: a magazine of literary and miscellaneous information (1807–1809). Edited by John Aikin.
• The Director: a weekly literary journal (1807).
• The Irish magazine, and monthly asylum for neglected biography (1807–1815).
• The Edinburgh Annual Register (1808–1826). Founded by Walter Scott.
• The Examiner (1808–1886). Weekly.
• The Tradesman; or, Commercial magazine (1808–1812).
• Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (1809–).
• The New Musical Magazine, Review, and Register (1809–10). Monthly.
• Quarterly Review (1809–1967). Quarterly. .
• Ladies' Fashionable Repository (1809–1829?; continues 1829–34 as Raw's Ladies Fashionable Repository; 1837–1905 Pawsey's Ladies Fashionable Repository). Annually.
• Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions, and politics (1809–1829). Established by Rudolph Ackermann.

1810s

• Hibernia Magazine, and Dublin monthly panorama (1810–1811).
• Monthly Panorama (1810).
• The Reflector: a quarterly magazine, on subjects of philosophy, politics, and the liberal arts (1810–1811).
• Cheap Magazine (1813–1815). Monthly, 4d.
• Monthly Museum; or, Dublin literary repertory of arts, science, literature and miscellaneous information (1813–1814).
• Lady's Monthly Museum; Or, Polite Repository of Amusement and Instruction (1814–1830).
• The New Monthly Magazine (1814–1884). Quarterly.
• Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette (1816–; became the Gazette and Herald in 1956). Weekly.
• The Black Dwarf (1817–1824)
• Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1817–1980). Monthly.
• 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).
• The Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc. (1818–1836). Weekly.
• The Quarterly Musical Magazine and Review (1818–1828).
• Christian Remembrancer (1819–1868). Monthly 1819–44, quarterly 1844–68.
• Edinburgh Monthly Review (1819–1821).
• The English Musical Gazette; or, Monthly Intelligencer (1819). Monthly.
• Imperial Magazine (1819–1834). Edited by Samuel Drew.

1820s

• John Bull (1820–). Weekly.
• Y Cymmrodor (1821–1951).
• Bell's Life in London and Sporting Chronicle (1822–1886)
• The Fancy (1822–26)
• Glasgow Medical Journal (1822–1956)
• The London Magazine (1822–1829)
• Mirror of Literature (1822–1847)
• Sportsman's Annual (1822?–1870). Annually.
• The Harmonicon (1823–1833). Monthly.
• The Lancet (1823–)
• The Portfolio (1823–25)
• Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction (1823–41)
• The Westminster Review (1824–1914). Quarterly and then monthly.
• The Children's Friend (1824–). Monthly.
• Child's Companion (1824–). Monthly.
• Staffordshire Mercury (1824–1848). Weekly
• 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.
• The Age (1825–1843; continues 1843–45 as The Age and Argus, 1845–46 as The English Gentleman). Weekly.
• The Anti-Slavery Reporter (1825–?)
• Birmingham Journal (1825–1869). Weekly.
• The Foreign Quarterly Review (1827–1846). Quarterly.
• The Keepsake (1827–1857). Annually.
• Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (1827–)
• Athenaeum (1828–1921)
• Church of England Newspaper (1828–)
• The Spectator (1828–)
• The London Review (1829)
• Pierce Egan's Book of Sports, and Mirror of Life (1829–1836).

1830s

• Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1830–1882). Monthly.
• Comic Annual (1830–1839, 1842)
• Figaro in London (1831–1839). Weekly.
• Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London (1831–1880)
• The Metropolitan Magazine (1831–1850)
• The Poor Man's Guardian (1831–1835). Weekly. 1d.
• Satirist; or, the Censor of the Times (1831–1849). Weekly.
• Chambers's Edinburgh Journal (1832–1956; renamed Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Arts in 1854, and Chambers's Journal in 1897)
• Dublin Journal of Medical & Chemical Science (1832–1925; renamed Dublin Journal of Medical Science, and Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science from 1846 to 1871)
• Hereford Times (1832–). Weekly. 7d.
• The Journal (1832–). Weekly
• Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music and Romance (1832–1870). Monthly.
• The Penny Magazine (1832–1845). Weekly
• The Saturday Magazine (1832–1844). Weekly
• Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1832–1855)
• The Cheltenham Looker-On (1833–1920)
• The Dublin University Magazine (1833–1877)
• The British and Foreign Review; or, European Quarterly Journal (1835–1844). Quarterly.
• The Gospel Standard (1835–). Monthly
• The London Review (1835–1836)
• The Mining Journal (1835–)
• The London and Westminster Review (1836–1840)
• The Musical World (1836–1891). Weekly.
• The Dublin Review (1836–1900). Quarterly, then monthly.
• Bentley's Miscellany (1837–1868). Monthly.
• Cleave's Penny Gazette (1837–44). Weekly.
• Justice of the Peace (1837–). Weekly.
• Northern Liberator (1837–1840). Weekly.
• Northern Star (1837–52). Weekly.
• Penny Satirist (1837–1846; continues 1846 as Penny Satirist and London Pioneer; 1846–48 as London Pioneer; 1848 as Literary Pioneer). Weekly.
• Publishers' Circular (1837–1959).
• The Era (1838–1939). Weekly
• 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.
• The Art Union Monthly Journal, soon renamed The Art Journal (1839–1912). Monthly

1840s

• Millennial Star (1840–1970). Monthly
• The Musical Journal (1840). Weekly.
• Peter Parley's Annual (1840–1892). Annually.
• Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal, later became British Medical Journal (1840–)
• The Gardeners' Chronicle (1841–)
• The Jewish Chronicle (1841–). Weekly
• Punch (1841–1992). Weekly.
• Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art (1842–1854)
• The Friend (1842–). Weekly.
• Illustrated London News (1842–). Weekly. 6d.
• Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper (1842–). Weekly.
• The Musical Examiner (1842–44). Weekly.
• The Builder (1843–). Weekly.
• The Economist (1843–). Weekly.
• Family Friend (1842–). Weekly
• The Family Herald: A Domestic Magazine of Useful Information & Amusement (1843–1940). Weekly.
• News of the World (1843–2011). Weekly. 3d.
• Pictorial Times (1843–48). Weekly.
• The Zoologist (1843–). Monthly.
• The Musical Times (1844–). Monthly.
• The North British Review (1844–1871). Quarterly.
• Preston Guardian (1844–; renamed Farmers Guardian in 1958)
• The Prospective Review: A Quarterly Journal of Theology and Literature (1845–1855). Quarterly.
• The British Quarterly Review (1845–1886). Quarterly.
• Hood's Magazine and Comic Miscellany (1845–49). Monthly.
• The London Journal (1845–1906). Weekly.
• Norfolk News (1845–). Weekly
• Sharpe's London Journal (1845–1870). Weekly 1845–47, monthly 1848–70.
• British Mothers' Magazine (1845–64). Monthly.
• Juvenile Companion, and Sunday-School Hive (1845–1891). Monthly.
• Archaeologia Cambrensis (1846–1999). Annually.
• Le Follet (1846–). Monthly.
• The Guardian [Anglican newspaper] (1846–1951). Weekly.
• Prophwyd y Jubili (1846–1848). Monthly
• Lady's Newspaper and Pictorial Times (1847–1863). Weekly.
• The Rambler (1848–1862). Weekly (Jan–Aug 1848), then monthly (until Feb 1589), then bimonthly (until 1862).
• Red Republican (1848–1850). Weekly
• Eliza Cook's Journal (1849–1853). Weekly.
• Notes and Queries (1849–). Weekly.
• Spirit of Freedom, and Working Man's Vindicator (1849–1850)

1850s

• The Germ (1850–1850). Monthly
• Harper's New Monthly Magazine (1850–). Monthly.
• Household Words (1850–1859). Weekly.
• The Leader (1850–60). Weekly.
• Reynold's News (1850–). Weekly
• Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Younger Members of the English Church (1851–1899). Monthly.
• Racing Times (1851–1868). Weekly.
• The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine (1852–1874; 1877; 1880–1890). Monthly.
• Craven Herald (1853–). Monthly; later weekly.
• The Field (1853–)
• The London Quarterly Review (1853–1900). Quarterly.
• Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science (1853–1965; from 1966 the Journal of Cell Science)
• Alnwick Mercury (1854–; renamed Alnwick and County Gazette in 1883, Northumberland and Alnwick Gazette in 1943, and Northumberland Gazette in 1947)
• Morpeth Herald (1854–). Monthly; weekly from 1858.
• The National Review (1855–1864). Quarterly.
• The Orcadian (1854–). Monthly, then weekly.
• Swindon Advertiser and Monthly Record (1854–) Monthly, 1d.; from 1855 weekly; from 1898 daily.
• Illustrated Times (1855–1872). Weekly.
• Boy's Own Magazine (1855–74)
• Derbyshire Times (1855–). Weekly.
• The Harrow Monthly Gazette and General Advertiser (1855–). 2d.
• Local Government Chronicle (1855–)
• Military Chronicle and Naval Spectator (1855–; later Rochester, Chatham and Gillingham News). Weekly.
• The Saturday Review of politics, literature, science, and art (1855–1938). Weekly.
• The Weekly News (1855–). Weekly.
• The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine (1856)
• The Engineer (1856–)
• The Atlantic Monthly (1857–1915). Monthly.
• Friendly Companion and Illustrated Instructor (1857–). Monthly.
• Journal of the Royal United Service Institution (1857–)
• The Atlantis (1858–1860, 1862–1863, 1870)
• The Bookseller (1858–)
• English Women's Journal (1858–1864). Monthly.
• Estates Gazette (1858–)
• Ladies' Treasury: An Illustrated Magazine of Entertaining Literature (1857–1895). Monthly.
• All the Year Round (1859–1895). Weekly.
• Bentley's Quarterly Review (1859–1860). Quarterly.
• Chemist and Druggist (1859–)
• The Eagle (1859=)
• Macmillan's Magazine (1859–1907). Monthly.
• Sporting Life (1859–1998). Weekly, then daily after 1883.
• Transactions of the South Wales Institute of Engineers (1859–).

1860s

• The Cornhill Magazine (1860–1975). Monthly.
• Investors Chronicle (1860–)
• Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers (1860–1900)
• Baily's Monthly Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1860–1926). Monthly.
• The Bee-Hive (1861–1878). Weekly.
• Fun (1861–1901). Weekly.
• Penny Illustrated Paper (1861–1913). Weekly. 1d.
• The Queen (1861–)
• The Home and Foreign Review (1862–1864)
• Every Boy's Magazine (1862–1889; titled Routledge's Magazine for Boys 1865–68, and Young Gentleman's Magazine 1869–73). Monthly.
• The Grocer (1862–)
• The Musical Standard (1862–1933). Semimonthly 1862–63, biweekly 1864–66 weekly 1866–.
• London Society (1862–1898). Monthly.
• 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.
• Alpine Journal (1863–). Annually.
• Church Times (1863–). Weekly.
• The Theological Review: A Quarterly Journal of Religious Thought and Life (1864–1879). Quarterly.
• Alexandra Magazine (1864–1865). Monthly.
• Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (1864–) Monthly / quarterly?
• The Geological Magazine (1864–)
• The Illustrated Police News (1864–1939)
• The Month (1864–2001). Monthly.
• The Musical Monthly and Repertoire of Literature, the Drama, and the Arts (1864–65). Monthly.
• 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.
• The Fortnightly Review (1865–1900). Fortnightly for a year, then monthly.
• Hardwicke's Science Gossip: A Monthly Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature (1865–1893). Monthly.
• Merry & Wise; a magazine for young people (1865–1872). Monthly.
• Sporting Times (1865–1931). Weekly.
• The Contemporary Review (1866–). Monthly.
• The Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society (1866–)
• Aunt Judy's Magazine (1866–1885). Monthly.
• Chatterbox (1866–1953) Weekly / monthly.
• Boys of England (1866–99, continues as Up-To-Date Boys' Journal 1899–1901, Boys of England 1901?–1906). Weekly.
• Englishwoman's Review (1866–1910). Monthly / quarterly.
• Father William's Stories (1866–67, continues 1868–81 as The Children's Treasury and 1881 as Our Darlings). Monthly / weekly.
• Kind Words for Boys and Girls (1866–1937). Monthly / weekly.
• Judy; or the London serio-comic journal (1867–1907). Weekly.
• Reports and transactions of the Cardiff Naturalists Society (1867–1986). Annually.
• Saint Pauls: A Monthly Magazine (1867–1874). Monthly.
• The Tomahawk (1867–1870). Weekly.
• Collections Historical & Archaeological relating to Montgomeryshire (1868–)
• Good Words for the Young (1868–1877). Monthly / weekly.
• Academy (1869–1916). Weekly.
• The Graphic (1869–1932). Weekly.
• Nature (1869–). Weekly.
• The People's Friend (1869–). Weekly.

1870s

The Boy's Own Paper, front page, 11 April 1891

• 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).
• The London Figaro; (1870–1898) a literary and satirical magazine. Daily for the first 9 months, then weekly.
• The Dark Blue (1871–1873)
• Little Folks; the magazine for boys and girls; a magazine for the young (1871–1933). Weekly, then monthly.
• 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, 1891–96 as Old and Young, 1896–97 as Folks-at-Home). Weekly.
• St. Nicholas; Scribner's illustrated magazine for girls and boys (1872–). Monthly.
• The New Quarterly Magazine (1873–1880). Quarterly.
• Journal of the Women's Education Union (1873–1881). Monthly.
• Passing Events; at home and abroad (1873). Weekly.
• Funny Folks (1874–); available openly and freely from the UF Digital Collections
• The Women's Advocate (1874). Monthly.
• Women and Work (1874–1876). Weekly.
• Little Wide-Awake. A story book for little children (1874–93) (Lucy Sale-Barker, editor)
• Myra's Journal of Dress and Fashion (1875–). Monthly.
• The Dart (1876–1911). Weekly.
• 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.
• The Nineteenth Century (1877–1900). Monthly.
• The Observatory (1877–)
• The University Magazine (1878–1880)
• Routledge's Every Girl's Annual (1878–1886?; continues 1887–1888 as Every Girl's Annual). Annually.
• Moonshine (1879–1902). Weekly.
• Boy's Own Paper (1879–1967). Weekly.
• Owl; a journal of wit and wisdom (1879–). Weekly.

1880s

The Amateur Photographer, Vol 1, No 1, 10 Oct 1884, front cover.

• The Modern Review: A Quarterly Magazine (1880–1884)
• The Union Jack; a magazine of healthy, stirring tales of adventure by land or sea (1880–1883). Weekly.
• Girl's Own Paper (1880–1956). Weekly, then monthly.
• Young England magazine (1880–1937). Weekly, then monthly, then annually.
• British Chess Magazine (1881–). Monthly.
• Tit-Bits (1881–). Weekly.
• Kate Greenaway's Almanack (1882–)
• Longman's Magazine (1882–1900). Monthly.
• The Scottish Review (1882–1900)
• Surveyor (1882–). Weekly.
• Wildfowler's Shooting Times and Kennel News, later Shooting Times (1882–)
• The National Review (London) (1883–).
• British Women's Temperance Journal (1883–92; 1892 continues as Wings)
• Ally Sloper's Half Holiday (1884–). Weekly.
• (The) Amateur Photographer (1884–). Weekly, 2d.
• Amateur Gardening (1884–)
• The Century Guild Hobby Horse (1884–1892, continued 1893-4 as The Hobby Horse). Quarterly.
• Horse & Hound (1884–). Weekly.
• Justice (1884–1925). Weekly.
• Walter's Theatrical and Sporting Directory and Book of Reference (1884–1893). Annually.
• Arbeyter Fraynd (1885–1914)
• Commonweal (1885–1894). Monthly, then weekly.
• The Quarterly Musical Review (1885–88). Quarterly.
• Freedom (1886–)
• Atalanta (1887–98). Monthly.
• Murray's Magazine. (1887–1891). Monthly.
• Our Little Dots. Pretty pictures and stories for little girls and boys (1887–). Monthly.
• Lucifer (1887–1897)
• The Dawn (1888–1896). Quarterly.
• Licensed Victuallers' Mirror (1888–92, continues 1892– as Sporting Mirror). Weekly.
• Pick-Me-Up (1888–1909). Weekly.
• The Women's Penny Paper (1888–1890; continued 1891–1899 as The Women's Herald). Weekly.
• Boys' Brigade Gazette (1889–). Quarterly.
• The Dial (1889–1897), founded by Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon
• The New Review (1889–1897) at Google books
• English edition of Puck (1889–90)

1890s

Bound volume of The Strand Magazine for Jan–June 1894

• Review of Reviews (1890–1953). Monthly.
• Golf (1890–1899, continues 1899– as Golf Illustrated)
• Illustrated Chips (1890–) Weekly
• The Bookman (1891–1934). Monthly.
• Cycling (1891–; briefly in the 1890s Cycling and Moting). Weekly
• The Strand Magazine (1891–1950)
• Chums (1892–)
• Hearth and Home (1892–)
• The Idler (1892–1911). Monthly.
• Isis (1892–). Weekly.
• Bright Eyes: an annual for young folk (1893–)
• Halfpenny Marvel (1893–98, continues 1898– as The Marvel)
• The New Quarterly Review (1893–96). Quarterly.
• Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion / Trafodion Anrhydedd Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorion (1893–)
• 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.
• The New Age (1894–1922?)
• Picture Politics (1894–1914). Monthly.
• Tiny Tots; an annual for very little people (1894–1940). Monthly / fortnightly / annually.
• 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).
• The Savoy (1896).
• The Pageant (1896–1897), edited by Charles Shannon and Gleeson White
• Big Budget (1897–1909)
• 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.
• The Anglo-Saxon Review (1899–1901). Quarterly.
• The Captain (1899–1924)

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