This resource, subtitled New Readerships: Women's, Children's, Humour and Leisure/Sport, consists of almost 100 academically selected titles and approximately 1.2 million pages. It focuses on the birth of modern magazine publishing in the UK between 1800 and 1900.

Titles included cover the spectrum of women's writing, from Hearth and Home to the suffragist The Vote via Women and Josephine Butler's The Dawn, and also chart the rapid rise of children's entertainment and education, with titles including Boys' Own and Little Folks.

The explosion in popular sports and hobbies, from gardening and horse racing to cricket and cycling, is well covered, and there is a broad spread of satirical and comic titles such as Punch, Fun, Judy, and Figaro in London.

This collection presents primary source periodical content allowing full text searching in addition to an extensive library of newly captured images, including approximately 8,000 in colour.

Our licence only provides access to the first in a series of five that the publisher plans to include in the complete collection.

Testimonials

"The publication of 19th Century UK Periodicals marks the commencement of a new epoch in historical scholarship. By making available in digital form the texts of ... carefully selected periodicals, and by permitting sophisticated searching of those texts, this breathtaking new resource breaks the conventional bounds of historical scholarship."

– Dr Jon Topham, University of Leeds

Access fees

JISC has made a significant investment in licensing the content of this collection. The content is available to all higher and further education institutions free of charge. However, institutions do need to pay an annual hosting fee to the publisher, if they wish to access the content via the publisher's servers, taking advantage of the search interface developed for the 19th Century UK Periodicals Online, Series 1.

Hosting arrangements under this agreement terminates on 31st July 2012.