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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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
Über den Autor / die Autorin
SAM G. RILEY is Professor of Communication Studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University. He has edited or coedited several major reference books on journalists and magazines, including
American Magazine Journalists for the
Dictionary of Literary Biography and, for Greenwood's
Historical Guides to the World's Periodicals and Newspapers,
Magazines of the American South (1986),
Regional Interest Magazines of the United States (1990),
Corporate Magazines of the United States (1992),
Index to Southern Periodicals (1986) and
Index to City and Regional Magazines (1989). He has also contributed to
Encyclopedia of Southern Culture and
Biographical Dictionary of American Journalists (Greenwood Press, 1989). He has written for
Journalism Quarterly,
American Journalism,
Journalism History,
Journalism Educator,
Journal of Newspaper and Periodical History, and
American Periodicals.
