List of 19th-century British periodicals
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, 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 and Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition.
List by year of publication
1800s
Weekly Dispatch. Weekly.Christian Observer.The Guardian of Education The Edinburgh Review. Quarterly.The Monthly Register and encyclopedian magazine.Political Register. Weekly. Edited by William CobbettAnnual Review and History of Literature. Annual. Founded by Arthur Aikin; edited by Aikin and Thomas Rees.The Anti-Gallican: or Standard of British loyalty, religion and liberty.The Eclectic Review. Monthly,Youth's Magazine.La Belle Assemblée. Established by John Bell.Le Beau Monde. Published by John Browne Bell.General Review of British and Foreign Literature. Published by William Nicholson.- The Monthly Repository. Monthly.The Athenaeum: a magazine of literary and miscellaneous information. Edited by John Aikin.The Cabinet.The Director: a weekly literary journal.The Irish magazine, and monthly asylum for neglected biography.The Edinburgh Annual Register. Founded by Walter Scott.The Examiner. Weekly.The Tradesman; or, Commercial magazine.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.The New Musical Magazine, Review, and Register. Monthly.Quarterly Review. Quarterly..Ladies' Fashionable Repository. Annually.Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions, and politics. Established by Rudolph Ackermann.Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts. Founded by William Nicholson.
1810s
Hibernia Magazine, and Dublin monthly panorama.Monthly Panorama.The Reflector: quarterly magazine, on subjects of philosophy, politics, and the liberal arts.British Review. Quarterly. Founded by John Weylund; edited by Weylund, then by William Roberts. Published by John Hatchard.Cheap Magazine. Monthly, 4d.Monthly Museum; or, Dublin literary repertory of arts, science, literature and miscellaneous information.Champion. Edited by John Scott.Lady's Monthly Museum; Or, Polite Repository of Amusement and Instruction.The New Monthly Magazine. Quarterly.Augustan Review. Monthly.British Lady's Magazine. Monthly. Published by John Souter.Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette. Weekly.The Black Dwarf Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. Monthly.The Ǣgis; or, Independent weekly expositor. Weekly,The Kaleidoscope; or, Literary and Scientific Mirror. Weekly. Published at Liverpool by Egerton Smith..The Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc.. Weekly.The Quarterly Musical Magazine and Review.Christian Remembrancer. Monthly 1819–1844, quarterly 1844–1868.Edinburgh Monthly Review.The English Musical Gazette; or, Monthly Intelligencer. Monthly.Imperial Magazine. Edited by Samuel Drew.Indicator. Weekly. Published by Joseph Appleyard. Edited by Leigh Hunt.1820s
John Bull. Weekly.Y Cymmrodor.Album. Quarterly. Edited by Francis St. Leger.Bell's Life in London and Sporting Chronicle The Fancy Glasgow Medical Journal The London Magazine Mirror of Literature Sportsman's Annual. Annually.The Harmonicon. Monthly.The Lancet The Portfolio Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction The Westminster Review. Quarterly and then monthly.The Children's Friend. Monthly.Child's Companion. Monthly.The Literary Magnet. Weekly during 1824, then monthly.Staffordshire Mercury. Weekly.The World of Fashion and Continental Feuilletons. Monthly.The Age. Weekly.The Anti-Slavery Reporter Birmingham Journal. Weekly.The Foreign Quarterly Review. Quarterly.The Keepsake. Annually.Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Athenaeum Church of England Newspaper The Spectator The London Review Pierce Egan's Book of Sports, and Mirror of Life.1830s
Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country. Monthly.Comic Annual Figaro in London. Weekly.Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London The Metropolitan Magazine The Poor Man's Guardian. Weekly. 1d.Satirist; or, the Censor of the Times. Weekly.Chambers's Edinburgh Journal.Dublin Journal of Medical & Chemical Science.Hereford Times. Weekly. 7d.The Journal. WeeklyLadies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music and Romance. Monthly.The Penny Magazine. Weekly.The Saturday Magazine. Weekly.Tait's Edinburgh Magazine Mark Lane Express. Weekly.The Cheltenham Looker-On The Dublin University Magazine The British and Foreign Review; or, European Quarterly Journal. Quarterly.The Gospel Standard. MonthlyThe London Review The Mining Journal The London and Westminster Review The Musical World. Weekly.The Dublin Review. Quarterly, then monthly.Bentley's Miscellany. Monthly.Cleave's Penny Gazette. Weekly.Justice of the Peace. Weekly.Northern Liberator. Weekly.Northern Star. Weekly.Penny Satirist. Weekly.Publishers' Circular.The Era. WeeklyJournal of the Statistical Society of London The Monthly Chronicle: A National Journal of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art. Monthly.The Art Union Monthly Journal, soon renamed The Art Journal. Monthly1840s
Millennial Star. MonthlyThe Musical Journal. Weekly.Peter Parley's Annual. Annually.Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal, later became British Medical Journal Annals and Magazine of Natural History, later became Journal of Natural HistoryThe Gardeners' Chronicle The Jewish Chronicle. WeeklyPunch. Weekly.Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art The Friend. Weekly.Illustrated London News. Weekly. 6d.Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper. Weekly.The Musical Examiner. Weekly.The Illustrated Weekly Times. Weekly.The Builder. Weekly.The Economist. Weekly.Family Friend. WeeklyThe Family Herald: A Domestic Magazine of Useful Information & Amusement. Weekly.News of the World. Weekly. 3d.Pictorial Times. Weekly.The Zoologist. Monthly.Archaeological Journal. Quarterly The Musical Times. Monthly.The North British Review. Quarterly.Preston Guardian The Prospective Review: A Quarterly Journal of Theology and Literature. Quarterly.The British Quarterly Review. Quarterly.Hood's Magazine and Comic Miscellany. Monthly.The London Journal. Weekly.Norfolk News. Weekly.Sharpe's London Journal. Weekly 1845–1847, monthly 1848–1870.British Mothers' Magazine. Monthly.Juvenile Companion, and Sunday-School Hive. Monthly.Archaeologia Cambrensis. Annually.Le Follet. Monthly.The Guardian . Weekly.Prophwyd y Jubili. Monthly.Lady's Newspaper and Pictorial Times. Weekly.The Rambler. Weekly, then monthly, then bimonthly.Red Republican. Weekly.Eliza Cook's Journal. Weekly.Notes and Queries. Weekly.1850s
Photographic Journal. The Journal of the Photographic Society |Journal of the Photographic Society. Monthly.British Journal of Photography |British Journal of Photography. Weekly.Photographic News |Photographic News. Weekly.The Germ. Monthly.Harper's New Monthly Magazine. Monthly.Household Words. Weekly.The Leader. Weekly.Reynold's News. Weekly.Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Younger Members of the English Church. Monthly.Racing Times. Weekly.The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine. Monthly.Craven Herald. Monthly; later weekly.The Field The London Quarterly Review. Quarterly.Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science Alnwick Mercury Morpeth Herald. Monthly; weekly from 1858.The National Review. Quarterly.The Orcadian. Monthly, then weekly.Swindon Advertiser and Monthly Record. Monthly, 1d.; from 1855 weekly; from 1898 daily.Illustrated Times. Weekly.Boys' Own Magazine Derbyshire Times. Weekly.The Harrow Monthly Gazette and General Advertiser. 2d.Local Government Chronicle Military Chronicle and Naval Spectator. Weekly.The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art. Weekly.The Weekly News. Weekly.The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine The Engineer The Atlantic Monthly. Monthly.Friendly Companion and Illustrated Instructor. Monthly.Journal of the Royal United Service Institution The Atlantis The Bookseller English Women's Journal. Monthly.Estates Gazette Ladies' Treasury: An Illustrated Magazine of Entertaining Literature. Monthly.All the Year Round. Weekly.Bentley's Quarterly Review. Quarterly.Chemist and Druggist The Eagle Macmillan's Magazine. Monthly.Sporting Life. Weekly, then daily after 1883.Transactions of the South Wales Institute of Engineers.1860s
The Cornhill Magazine. Monthly.Investors Chronicle Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers Baily's Monthly Magazine of Sports and Pastimes. Monthly.The Bee-Hive. Weekly.Fun. Weekly.Penny Illustrated Paper. Weekly. 1d.The Queen The Home and Foreign Review Every Boy's Magazine. Monthly.The Grocer The Musical Standard. Semimonthly 1862–1863, biweekly 1864–1866 weekly 1866–.London Society. Monthly.Sporting Gazette. Weekly.Alpine Journal Annually.Church Times Weekly.The Theological Review: A Quarterly Journal of Religious Thought and Life. Quarterly.Alexandra Magazine. Monthly.Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. Monthly / quarterly?The Geological Magazine The Illustrated Police News The Month. Monthly.The Musical Monthly and Repertoire of Literature, the Drama, and the Arts. Monthly.The Owl: a Wednesday journal of politics and society Weekly.The English Mechanic and World of Science. Weekly.Fishing Gazette. Weekly.The Fortnightly Review. Fortnightly for a year, then monthly.Hardwicke's Science Gossip: A Monthly Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature. Monthly.Merry & Wise; a magazine for young people. Monthly.Sporting Times. Weekly.The Contemporary Review Monthly.The Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society Aunt Judy's Magazine. Monthly.Chatterbox. Weekly / monthly.Boys of England. Weekly.Englishwoman's Review. Monthly / quarterly.Father William's Stories. Monthly / weekly.Kind Words for Boys and Girls. Monthly / weekly.Judy; or the London serio-comic journal. Weekly.Reports and transactions of the Cardiff Naturalists Society. Annually.Saint Pauls: A Monthly Magazine. Monthly.The Tomahawk. Weekly.Football Annual. Annually.Collections Historical & Archaeological relating to Montgomeryshire Good Words for the Young. Monthly / weekly.Academy. Weekly.The Graphic. Weekly.Nature. Weekly.The People's Friend. Weekly.Belgravia: A London Magazine . Monthly. Bound copies contained four months. Continued with slight title variation to 1899.1870s
- Truth (British periodical) Shield; the Anti-Contagious Diseases Acts Association's weekly circular.
- . Monthly, with a focus on Asia.
- The London Figaro;. Literary and satirical magazine. Daily for the first 9 months, then weekly.The Dark Blue Little Folks; the magazine for boys and girls; a magazine for the young. Weekly, then monthly.Our Young Folk's Weekly Budget. Weekly.St. Nicholas; Scribner's illustrated magazine for girls and boys. Monthly.The New Quarterly Magazine. Quarterly.Journal of the Women's Education Union. Monthly.Passing Events; at home and abroad. Weekly.Funny Folks ; Vol. IV available openly and freely from the The Women's Advocate. Monthly.Women and Work. Weekly.Little Wide-Awake. A story book for little children Myra's Journal of Dress and Fashion Monthly.The Dart. Weekly.Mind Women's Union Journal. Monthly / quarterly.The Nineteenth Century. Monthly.The Observatory The Statist. 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 Routledge's Every Girl's Annual. Annually.Moonshine. Weekly.Boy's Own Paper. Weekly.Owl; a journal of wit and wisdom. Weekly.Ruthin Illustrated Magazine (1879–1881
1880s
The Modern Review: A Quarterly Magazine The Union Jack; a magazine of healthy, stirring tales of adventure by land or sea. Weekly.Girl's Own Paper. Weekly, then monthly.Young England magazine. Weekly, then monthly, then annually.British Chess Magazine. Monthly.Tit-Bits. Weekly.- Knowledge. Weekly, then monthly.Kate Greenaway's Almanack Longman's Magazine. Monthly.The Scottish Review Surveyor. Weekly.Wildfowler's Shooting Times and Kennel News, later Shooting Times The National Review (London) British Women's Temperance Journal.Ally Sloper's Half Holiday. Weekly.(The) Amateur Photographer. Weekly, 2d.Amateur Gardening The Century Guild Hobby Horse. Quarterly.Horse & Hound. Weekly.Justice. Weekly.Walter's Theatrical and Sporting Directory and Book of Reference. Annually.Arbeyter Fraynd Commonweal. Monthly, then weekly.The Quarterly Musical Review. Quarterly.
- The Lady Freedom Atalanta. Monthly.Stories Illustrated ; founded by John Francon Williams.Murray's Magazine.. Monthly.Our Little Dots. Pretty pictures and stories for little girls and boys Monthly.Lucifer The Dawn. Quarterly.Licensed Victuallers' Mirror. Weekly.Pick-Me-Up. Weekly.The Women's Penny Paper. Weekly.Boys' Brigade Gazette Quarterly.The Dial, founded by Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon.The New Review
- English edition of Puck The Handy Shipping Guide. Weekly; Daily.Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial founded by the Harmsworth Brothers.
1890s
Review of Reviews. Monthly.Golf Illustrated Chips Weekly.Golden Gates.The Bookman. Monthly.Cycling. Weekly.The Strand Magazine The Ludgate Monthly.Chums Hearth and Home The Idler. Monthly.Isis Weekly.The Pagan Review. Discontinued after one issue.Bright Eyes: an annual for young folk Halfpenny Marvel The New Quarterly Review. Quarterly.Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion / Trafodion Anrhydedd Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorion The Woman at Home. Monthly / weekly.The New Age Picture Politics. Monthly.Tiny Tots; an annual for very little people. Monthly / fortnightly / annually.The Yellow Book. Quarterly.Union Jack. Weekly..The Autocar Racing Illustrated.The Savoy.The Pageant, edited by Charles Shannon and Gleeson White.Big Budget Country Life The Dome. Quarterly, then monthly.The Railway Magazine. Monthly.Dos Fraye Vort The Ladies Field The Princess Model Engineer Magazine The Storm-Bell. Monthly.The Anglo-Saxon Review. Quarterly.The Captain Musical Budget. Monthly.Home and Hearth. Weekly.- The Album: A Journal of Photographs of Men, Women, and Events of the Day. Published by Ingram Brothers, 198, Strand, London.