Consumer Magazines of the British Isles

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Edited by Sam G. Riley

ISBN: 0-313-28562-4

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-28562-2

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336 pages

Greenwood Press

Publication: 2/28/1993

List Price: $119.95 (UK Sterling Price: £70.00)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Series Title: Historical Guides to the World's Periodicals and Newspapers

Description: 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.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
BBC Wildlife Magazine
The Burlington Magazine
Classic and Sportscar
Classic Cars
Company
Country Life
Country Living
Cumbria
The Dalesman
The Economist
Encounter
The Face
Geographical Magazine
Golf Monthly
Harpers and Queen
Harrods Magazine
Horse and Hound
House Beautiful
Ideal Home
The Illustrated London News
In Britain
Ireland of the Welcomes
The Lady
The Listener
Living
Magill: Ireland's Current Affairs Monthly Magazine
Mayfair
The Month
New Scientist
New Statesman and Society
The People's Friend
Prima
Private Eye
Punch
Q
Radio Times
Royalty Monthly
The Scots Magazine
She
Shoot!
Smash Hits
Spare Rib
Spectator
Tatler
This England
Time Out
The TV Times
Woman
Woman's Journal
Woman's Own
Appendix A: Chronological List of Titles
Appendix B: British Magazines by Subject Category
Appendix C: Directory of Additional British Consumer Magazines
Index

LC Card Number: 92-19876

LCC Class: PN5124

Dewey Class: 052


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