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

The periodical press flourished in the nineteenth century: the 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 Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900, Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (now published electronically as part of 19th Century Masterfile), and Science in the 19th-Century Periodical. There are also a number of efforts to republish nineteenth-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 See 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). ^S
• The Guardian of Education (1802-1806)
• The Edinburgh Review (1802-1900). Quarterly. ^{W S}
• The Monthly Register and encylopedian magazine (1802-1803). ^PQ1
• Political Register (1802-1835). Weekly. Edited by William Cobbett
• Annual Review and History of Literature (1803-1809). Founded by Arthur Aikin. ^PQ1
• The Anti-Gallican: or Standard of British loyalty, religion and liberty (1804). ^PQ1
• Youth's Magazine (1805-1867). ^S
• Belle Assemblée (1806-1832, continued as Court Magazine 1832-48). Established by John Bell. ^{S G1 PQ1}
• The Athenaeum: a magazine of literary and miscellaneous information (1807-1809). Edited by John Aikin. ^PQ1
• The Director: a weekly literary journal (1807). ^PQ1
• The Irish magazine, and monthly asylum for neglected biography (1807-1815). ^PQ1
• The Edinburgh Annual Register (1808-1826). Founded by Walter Scott. ^PQ1
• The Examiner (1808-1886). Weekly.
• The Monthly Repository (1808-1838). Monthly. ^N
• The Tradesman; or, Commercial magazine (1808-1812). ^PQ1
• Quarterly Review (1809-1967). Quarterly. ^PQ1. ^W
• Ladies' Fashionable Repository (1809-1829?; continues 1829-34 as Raw's Ladies Fashionable Repository; 1837-1905 Pawsey's Ladies Fashionable Repository). Annually. ^G1

1810s

• Hibernia Magazine, and Dublin monthly panorama (1810-1811). ^PQ1
• Monthly Panorama (1810). ^PQ1
• The Reflector: a quarterly magazine, on subjects of philosophy, politics, and the liberal arts (1810-1811). ^PQ1
• Cheap Magazine (1813-1815). Monthly, 4d.
• Monthly Museum; or, Dublin literary repertory of arts, science, literature and miscellaneous information (1813-1814). ^PQ1
• Lady's Monthly Museum; Or, Polite Repository of Amusement and Instruction (1814-1830). ^G1
• The New Monthly Magazine (1814-1884). Quarterly.^W
• The Black Dwarf (1817-1824) ^S
• Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1817-1980). Monthly. ^{W S}
• The Kaleidoscope; or, Literary and Scientific Mirror. Weekly. Published at Liverpool by Egerton Smith. (1818-1831). ^PQ1
• Christian Remembrancer (1819-1868). Monthly 1819-44, quarterly 1844-68.
• London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc. (1816-1836). Weekly.
• Edinburgh Monthly Review (1819-1821). ^PQ1
• Imperial Magazine (1819-1834). Edited by Samuel Drew. ^PQ1

1820s

• John Bull (1820-). Weekly. ^G1
• The London Magazine (1822-1829)
• The Fancy (1822-26) ^G1
• Mirror of Literature (1822-1847) ^S
• Bell's Life in London and Sporting Chronicle (1822-1886) ^G1
• Sportsman's Annual (1822?-1870). Annually. ^G1
• The Lancet (1823-)
• The Portfolio (1823-25)
• Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction (1823-41)
• The Westminster Review (1824-1914). Quarterly and then monthly. ^W
• The Children's Friend (1824-). Monthly. ^G1
• Child's Companion (1824-). Monthly. ^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. ^G1
• The Age (1825-1843; continues 1843-45 as The Age and Argus, 1845-6 as The English Gentleman). Weekly. ^G1
• The Foreign Quarterly Review (1827-1846). Quarterly. ^W
• Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (1827-)
• Athenaeum (1828-1921)
• The Spectator (1828-)
• The London Review (1829) ^W
• Pierce Egan's Book of Sports, and Mirror of Life (1829-1836). ^G1

1830s

• Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1830-1882). Monthly. ^W
• Comic Annual (1830-1839, 1842) ^S
• The Metropolitan Magazine (1831-1850)
• Satirist; or, the Censor of the Times (1831-1849). Weekly. ^G1
• Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1832-1855) ^W
• The Penny Magazine (1832-1845). Weekly
• Chambers's Edinburgh Journal (1832-?)
• Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music and Romance (1832-1870). Monthly. ^G1
• Figaro in London (1831-1839). Weekly. ^G1
• The Saturday Magazine (1832-1844). Weekly
• The Cheltenham Looker-On (1833-1920)
• The Dublin University Magazine (1833-1877) ^W
• The British and Foreign Review; or, European Quarterly Journal (1835-1844). Quarterly. ^W
• The London Review (1835-1836) ^W
• The London and Westminster Review (1836-1840) ^W
• The Dublin Review (1836-1900). Quarterly, then monthly. ^W
• Bentley's Miscellany (1837-1868). Monthly.^W
• Publishers' Circular (1837-1959). ^N
• Cleave's Penny Gazette (1837-44). Weekly. ^G1
• Penny Satirist (1837-1846; continues 1846 as Penny Satirist and London Pioneer; 1846-48 as London Pioneer; 1848 as Literary Pioneer). Weekly. ^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.^W
• Northern Star (1838-52). Weekly. ^N
• The Art Union, soon renamed The Art Journal (1839-1912)

1840s

• Peter Parley's Annual (1840-1892). Annually. ^G1
• Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal, later became British Medical Journal (1840-)
• The Gardeners' Chronicle (1841-)
• Punch (1841-1992). Weekly. ^{G1 S}
• Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art (1842-1854) ^W
• The Friend (1842-). Weekly.
• Illustrated London News (1842-). Weekly.
• 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 North British Review (1844-1871). Quarterly. ^W
• The Prospective Review: A Quarterly Journal of Theology and Literature (1845-1855). Quarterly. ^W
• The British Quarterly Review (1845-1886). Quarterly. ^W
• The London Journal (1845-1906). Weekly.
• Sharpe's London Journal (1845-1870). Weekly 1845-47, monthly 1848-70.
• British Mothers' Magazine (1845-64). Monthly. ^G1
• Juvenile Companion, and Sunday-School Hive (1845-1891). Monthly. ^G1
• Le Follet (1846-). Monthly. ^G1
• The Guardian [Anglican newspaper] (1864-1951). Weekly.
• Lady's Newspaper and Pictorial Times (1847-1863). Weekly. ^G1
• The Rambler (1848-1862). Weekly (Jan-Aug 1848), then monthly (until Feb 1589), then bimonthly (until 1862). ^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. ^S
• Household Words (1850-1859). Weekly.
• The Leader (1850-60). Weekly. ^N
• Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Younger Members of the English Church (1851-1899). Monthly. ^G1
• Racing Times (1851-1868). Weekly. ^G1
• Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine (1852-1874; 1877; 1880-1890). Monthly. ^{G1 S}
• The Field (1853-)
• The London Quarterly Review (1853-1900). Quarterly. ^W
• The National Review (1855-1864). Quarterly. ^W
• Illustrated Times (1855-1872). Weekly.
• Boy's Own Magazine (1855-74) ^G1
• The Saturday Review of politics, literature, science, and art (1855-1938). Weekly.
• The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine (1856) ^W
• The Engineer (1856-)
• The Atlantic Monthly (1857-1915). Monthly.
• Friendly Companion and Illustrated Instructor (1857-). Monthly. ^G1
• The Atlantis (1858-1860, 1862-1863, 1870) ^W
• English Women's Journal (1858-1864). Monthly. ^N
• Ladies' Treasury: An Illustrated Magazine of Entertaining Literature (1857-1895). Monthly. ^G1
• All the Year Round (1859-1895). Weekly.
• Bentley's Quarterly Review (1859-1860). Quarterly. ^W
• The Eagle (1859=)
• Macmillan's Magazine (1859-1900). Monthly. ^W
• Sporting Life (1859-1998). Weekly, then daily after 1883.

1860s

• The Cornhill Magazine (1860-1975). Monthly.^{W S}
• Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers (1860-1900) ^W
• Baily's Monthly Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1860-1926). Monthly. ^G1
• Penny Illustrated Paper (1861-1913). Weekly.
• Fun (1861-1901). Weekly. ^G1
• The Home and Foreign Review (1862-1864) ^W
• Every Boy's Magazine (1862-1889; titled Routledge's Magazine for Boys 1865-68, and Young Gentleman's Magazine 1869-73). Monthly. ^G1
• 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. ^G1
• Church Times (1863-). Weekly.
• The Theological Review: A Quarterly Journal of Religious Thought and Life (1864-1879). Quarterly. ^W
• Alexandra Magazine (1864-1865). Monthly. ^G1
• Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (1864-) Monthly / quarterly?
• The Geological Magazine (1864-)
• The Month (1864-2001). 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. ^G1
• The Fortnightly Review (1865-1900). Fortnightly for a year, then monthly. ^W
• Merry & Wise; a magazine for young people (1865-1872). Monthly. ^G1
• Sporting Times (1865-1931). Weekly. ^G1
• The Contemporary Review (1866-). Monthly. ^W
• Aunt Judy's Magazine (1866-1885). Monthly. ^G1
• Chatterbox (1866-1953) Weekly / monthly. ^G1
• Boys of England (1866-99, continues as Up-To-Date Boys' Journal 1899-1901, Boys of England 1901?-1906). Weekly. ^G1
• Englishwoman's Review (1866-1910). Monthly / quarterly. ^G1
• Father William's Stories (1866-67, continues 1868-81 as The Children's Treasury and 1881 as Our Darlings). Monthly / weekly. ^G1
• Kind Words for Boys and Girls (1866-1937). Monthly / weekly. ^G1
• Judy; or the London serio-comic journal (1867-1907). Weekly. ^G1
• Saint Pauls: A Monthly Magazine (1867-1874). Monthly. ^W
• The Tomahawk (1867-1870). Weekly. ^{G1 N}
• Good Words for the Young (1868-1877). Monthly / weekly. ^G1
• Academy (1869-1916). Weekly. ^S
• 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). ^G1
• The Dark Blue (1871-1873) ^W
• Little Folks; the magazine for boys and girls; a magazine for the young (1871-1933). Weekly, then monthly. ^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. ^G1
• St. Nicholas; Scribner's illustrated magazine for girls and boys (1872-). Monthly. ^G1
• The New Quarterly Magazine (1873-1880). Quarterly. ^W
• Journal of the Women's Education Union (1873-1881). Monthly. ^G1
• Passing Events; at home and abroad (1873). Weekly. ^G1
• Funny Folks (1874-) ^G1
• The Women's Advocate (1874). Monthly. ^G1
• Women and Work (1874-1876). Weekly. ^G1
• Little Wide-Awake. A story book for little children (1875-93) ^G1
• Myra's Journal of Dress and Fashion (1875-). Monthly. ^G1
• The Dart (1876-1911). Weekly. ^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. ^G1
• The Nineteenth Century (1877-1900). Monthly.^W
• The Observatory (1877-)
• The University Magazine (1878-1880) ^W
• Routledge's Every Girl's Annual (1878-1886?; continues 1887-1888 as Every Girl's Annual). Annually. ^G1
• Moonshine (1879-1902). Weekly. ^G1
• Boy's Own Paper (1879-1967). Weekly. ^{S G1}
• Owl; a journal of wit and wisdom (1879-). Weekly. ^G1

1880s

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

1890s

Bound volume of The Strand Magazine for Jan-June 1894

• Review of Reviews (1890-1953). Monthly. ^S
• Golf (1890-1899, continues 1899- as Golf Illustrated) ^G1
• Illustrated Chips (1890-) Weekly ^G1
• The Bookman (1891-1934). Monthly.
• Cycling (1891-; briefly in the 1890s Cycling and Moting). Weekly ^G1
• The Strand Magazine (1891-1950)
• Chums (1892-) ^G1
• Hearth and Home (1892-) ^G1
• The Idler (1892-1911). Monthly.
• Isis (1892-). Weekly.
• Bright Eyes: an annual for young folk (1893-) ^G1
• Halfpenny Marvel (1893-98, continues 1898- as The Marvel) ^G1
• 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. ^G1
• The New Age (1894-1922?)
• Picture Politics (1894-1914). Monthly. ^G1
• Tiny Tots; an annual for very little people (1894-1940). Monthly / fortnightly / annually. ^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). ^G1
• The Savoy (1896).
• The Pageant (1896-1897), edited by Charles Shannon and Gleeson White
• The Big Budget (1897-) ^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. ^G1

• The Captain (1899-1924) ^G1

Notes

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

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