19th Century U.K. Periodicals

Gale Digital Collections

The 19th century was a time of revolutionary change andexpansion. Britain was one of the world’s first industrial,urban superpowers and developed a press to feed the demandsof its increasingly literate population. 19th Century U.K.
Periodicals is a major new series which covers the events,lives, values and themes that shaped the 19th century world.
It provides an invaluable resource for the study of British lifein the 19th century – from art to business, and from children
to politics. Most of the materials in this extensive onlinecollection have never been reissued, in any format,since their original publication. For the first time ever in
one of Gale’s digital collections, the digital images
in this collection reproduce the color contained within in
the original periodicals.
The collection will consist of five series and hold, in total,
more than 600 titles selected by leading academics in theirfield. Each series will comprise of around 1.2
million pages. The first series is New Readerships:
Women’s, Children’s, Humor and Leisure/Sport, tobe released in the autumn of 2007. This collection
marks the advent of commercial lifestyle publishingin Britain and charts the rapid rise of modern
magazine culture, beginning with Boys’ Own andthe Floricultural Review, two of the most widely
cited nineteenth-century journals. It conveys the fullpolitical spectrum of women’s writing – from Hearthand Home to the suffragist The Vote via the Womanand provides a fascinating insight into women’schanging status in the 1800s.
Other titles in the series range from the satiric andthe comic – such as Fun, Comic Cuts, Judy and
Figaro in London – to children’s entertainment andeducation, as well as sports and hobbies – fromgardening to horse racing, cricket and cycling.

FEATURES:
New Readerships: 1.2 million pages
New Readerships: major new series
during a time of revolutionarychange and expansion in the 19thcentury world
New Readerships: wide varietyof periodicals from topics such aspolitics, the rural life, children’sliterature, leisure and humourFirst color digital archive (wherepublished originally in color)
Cross-disciplinary in approach
New imaging sourced fromThe British Library and theNational Library of Scotland
Periodicals selected by an advisoryboard of experts from U.K., U.S.
and Canada.

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New Readerships: Women’s, Children’s, Humor and Leisure/Sport contains a wide variety of periodicals including:

Culture: Literature, Visual andPerforming Arts:
From the serialised novels of Charles Dickens,
to political satire, theatre and concert reviews andessays by leading writers of the day, this collection
offers titles such as:
Atalanta, the Cornhill Magazine, Punch,
the Athenaeum, The Germ, The Quarterly Review,
The Builder, The Englishwoman’s Journal and the
Edinburgh Review, The Architect, The Bohemian,Fine Arts Quarterly Review, The Strand Magazine,
The Spectator, Dramatic World, Drury Lane,
The British Bandsman, The Strad and the
Quarterly Musical Magazine.

Political
The Northern StarThe Satirist
British Women’s Temperance Journal
The Shield: the contagious disease association weekly
circular
Rural LifeCountry GentlemenChildren’s Literature
Routledge’s Every Girls Annual
Little Wide Awake: A story book for young children
Union Jack: Tales for British Boys
Tiny Tots (Tiny Tots Annual) A magazine for very little folks
LeisureLadies Fashionable Repository
Bailey’s Monthly Magazine of SportThe Fishing Gazette
Walter’s Theatrical and Sporting Directory andBook of Reference
Humour
The Tomahawk: a Saturday journal of satire
The Owl; a journal of wit and wisdom (Birmingham)
The Penny Satirist
Funny Folks; a weekly budget of funny pictures,
funny notes, funny jokes, and funny stories

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FORTHCOMING SERIES:The collection will consist of 5 series to be completed over
several years (2007-2010)
Empire: Travel and anthropology, economics,
missionary and colonial
The expansion of the empire was a dominant factor in 19thcentury British history. The collection includes titles from India,
Canada, South and East Africa, Australia and New Zealandalongside British titles, and covers both the economic andnon-mercantile aspects of British expansionism. Drawing fromthe remarkable collection of the Royal Geographical Society
and Commonwealth National Libraries it contains titles suchas Capital and Labour, The Examiner, Liberty Review, The
Canadian Journal, The Economist, The Scribbler, The Literary
Garland, Dawn: A Journal for Australian Women,
Melbourne Punch, The Friend of India, The Asiatic Review
and Colonial Chronicle .

Working Life: Agriculture, the Professions,
Trade and Industry and Medicine:
One key aspect of any 19th century study is thetransformation of society through innovation andindustrialisation, urbanisation and the educationand democratisation of British society. This section
tracks these changes through journals such as
Law Times, The Teacher, The Journal of the Iron
and Steel Institute, The Engineer, The Grocer,
The Penny Mechanic, The Medical Examiner
and the Nurses’ Journal.
Knowledge: Academic, Field Sciences,
Philanthropic, Political, Religious andScientific journals
This series represents revolutions in world views,
social change, evolution, concern over poverty andinequality and the growth of the labour movement
and the development of the modern university
system. Titles include:
British Astronomical Association Memoirs,
Transactions of the Linnean Society,
The Contemporary Review, The Poor Man’s
Advocate, The Nineteenth Century,
The Penny Magazine, The Catholic Magazine,
The Church Journal and theJewish Quarterly Review.

19th Century U.K. Periodicals is an essential
research tool for the study of 19th century
history and culture.

FREE TRIAL — For more information or to request a free trial of this unique collection,please contact your Gale Sales Representative or visit www.gale.com/GDCTrial.

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