Consumer magazines have a long history in the United Kingdom and
Ireland beginning in the seventeenth century, and a number of them
that date from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are still
flourishing. This reference volume offers a representative sample
of the current British magazine market, providing detailed profiles
of fifty magazines, written mainly by scholars from England,
Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, and supplementary data on many
others. The separately profiled magazines range from the venerable
The Scots Magazine (1739), Spectator (1828), Punch (1841), and The
Illustrated London News (1842) to relative newcomers of the 1980s
such as Country Living (1985), Prima (1986), Q (1986), and House
Beautiful (1989). Included are major circulation leaders like Radio
Times, Smash Hits, and Woman's Own, prestigious and influential
journals like The Economist and New Scientist, regional magazines
like Cumbria and The Dalesman, general interest magazines, and a
wide variety of magazines in targeted subject or readership
categories, like cars, homes, nature, and sports. Each essay
consists of a narrative history from the magazine's founding to the
present, concluding with information sources and data on
periodicity, publishers, locations of the magazines in the United
States, editors, title changes, and circulation. Appendixes list
the fifty magazines by date of founding and in subject categories;
succinct data on 330 additional British consumer magazines appears
in a directory. The volume opens with a concise history of British
periodicals. Intended specifically for reference use on British
journals, this volume will also be useful for research in
journalism history and British cultural history.
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