This is a list of British periodicals established in the 19th century, excluding daily newspapers.
The periodical press flourished in the 19th century: the Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals plans to eventually list more 100,000 titles; the current Series 3 lists 73,000 titles. 19th-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), Science in the 19th-Century Periodical and Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals, 1800–1950. There are also a number of efforts to republish 19th-century periodicals online, including ProQuest's British Periodicals Collection I and Collection II, Gale's 19th Century UK Periodicals Online and Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (ncse).
List by year of publication
1800s
Weekly Dispatch (1801–1928, continued as Sunday Dispatch). Weekly. Christian Observer (1802–1874). The Guardian of Education (1802–1806) The Edinburgh Review (1802–1900). Quarterly. The Monthly Register and encyclopedian magazine (1802–1803). Political Register (1802–1835). Weekly. Edited by William Cobbett Annual Review and History of Literature (1803–1809). Annual. Founded by Arthur Aikin; edited by Aikin (volumes 1–6) and Thomas Rees (volume 7). The Anti-Gallican: or Standard of British loyalty, religion and liberty (1804). The Eclectic Review (1805–1868). Monthly, Youth's Magazine (1805–1867). La Belle Assemblée (1806–1832, continued as Court Magazine 1832–1848). Established by John Bell. Le Beau Monde (1806–1810). Published by John Browne Bell. General Review of British and Foreign Literature (1806). Published by William Nicholson. The Monthly Repository (1806–1838). Monthly. The Athenaeum: a magazine of literary and miscellaneous information (1807–1809). Edited by John Aikin. The Cabinet (1807–1809). The Director: a weekly literary journal (1807). The Irish magazine, and monthly asylum for neglected biography (1807–1815). The Edinburgh Annual Register (1808–1826). Founded by Walter Scott. The Examiner (1808–1886). Weekly. The Tradesman; or, Commercial magazine (1808–1812). Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (1809–). The New Musical Magazine, Review, and Register (1809–1810). Monthly. Quarterly Review (1809–1967). Quarterly.. Ladies' Fashionable Repository (1809–1829?; continues 1829–1834 as Raw's Ladies Fashionable Repository; 1837–1905 Pawsey's Ladies Fashionable Repository). Annually. Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions, and politics (1809–1829). Established by Rudolph Ackermann. Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts (1797–1813). Founded by William Nicholson.
1810s
Hibernia Magazine, and Dublin monthly panorama (1810–1811). Monthly Panorama (1810). The Reflector: quarterly magazine, on subjects of philosophy, politics, and the liberal arts (1810–1811). British Review (1811–1825). Quarterly. Founded by John Weylund; edited by Weylund (for 1 or 2 numbers), then by William Roberts (until 1822). Published by John Hatchard. Cheap Magazine (1813–1815). Monthly, 4d. Monthly Museum; or, Dublin literary repertory of arts, science, literature and miscellaneous information (1813–1814). Champion (1814–1822). Edited by John Scott. Lady's Monthly Museum; Or, Polite Repository of Amusement and Instruction (1814–1830). The New Monthly Magazine (1814–1884). Quarterly. Augustan Review (1815–1816). Monthly. British Lady's Magazine (1815–1818). Monthly. Published by John Souter. Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette (1816–; became the Gazette and Herald in 1956). Weekly. The Black Dwarf (1817–1824) Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1817–1980). Monthly. The Ǣgis; or, Independent weekly expositor (July–September 1818). Weekly, The Kaleidoscope; or, Literary and Scientific Mirror. Weekly. Published at Liverpool by Egerton Smith. (1818–1831). The Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc. (1818–1836). Weekly. The Quarterly Musical Magazine and Review (1818–1828). Christian Remembrancer (1819–1868). Monthly 1819–1844, quarterly 1844–1868. Edinburgh Monthly Review (1819–1821). The English Musical Gazette; or, Monthly Intelligencer (1819). Monthly. Imperial Magazine (1819–1834). Edited by Samuel Drew. Indicator (1819–1821). Weekly. Published by Joseph Appleyard. Edited by Leigh Hunt.
1820s John Bull (1820–). Weekly. Y Cymmrodor (1821–1951). Album (1822–1825). Quarterly. Edited by Francis St. Leger. Bell's Life in London and Sporting Chronicle (1822–1886) The Fancy (1822–1826) Glasgow Medical Journal (1822–1956) The London Magazine (1822–1829) Mirror of Literature (1822–1847) Sportsman's Annual (1822?–1870). Annually. The Harmonicon (1823–1833). Monthly. The Lancet (1823–) The Portfolio (1823–1825) Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction (1823–1841) The Westminster Review (1824–1914). Quarterly and then monthly. The Children's Friend (1824–). Monthly. Child's Companion (1824–). Monthly. The Literary Magnet (1824–1828). Weekly during 1824, then monthly. Staffordshire Mercury (1824–1848). Weekly. 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. The Age (1825–1843; continues 1843–1845 as The Age and Argus, 1845–46 as The English Gentleman). Weekly. The Anti-Slavery Reporter (1825–?) Birmingham Journal (1825–1869). Weekly. The Foreign Quarterly Review (1827–1846). Quarterly. The Keepsake (1827–1857). Annually. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (1827–) Athenaeum (1828–1921) Church of England Newspaper (1828–) The Spectator (1828–) The London Review (1829) Pierce Egan's Book of Sports, and Mirror of Life (1829–1836).
1830s
Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1830–1882). Monthly. Comic Annual (1830–1839, 1842) Figaro in London (1831–1839). Weekly. Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London (1831–1880) The Metropolitan Magazine (1831–1850) The Poor Man's Guardian (1831–1835). Weekly. 1d. Satirist; or, the Censor of the Times (1831–1849). Weekly. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal (1832–1956; renamed Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Arts in 1854, and Chambers's Journal in 1897). Dublin Journal of Medical & Chemical Science (1832–1925; renamed Dublin Journal of Medical Science, and Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science from 1846 to 1871). Hereford Times (1832–). Weekly. 7d. The Journal (1832–). Weekly Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music and Romance (1832–1870). Monthly. The Penny Magazine (1832–1845). Weekly. The Saturday Magazine (1832–1844). Weekly. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1832–1855) Mark Lane Express (1832–1924). Weekly. The Cheltenham Looker-On (1833–1920) The Dublin University Magazine (1833–1877) The British and Foreign Review; or, European Quarterly Journal (1835–1844). Quarterly. The Gospel Standard (1835–). Monthly The London Review (1835–1836) The Mining Journal (1835–) The London and Westminster Review (1836–1840) The Musical World (1836–1891). Weekly., , and others. The Dublin Review (1836–1900). Quarterly, then monthly. Bentley's Miscellany (1837–1868). Monthly. Cleave's Penny Gazette (1837–1844). Weekly. Justice of the Peace (1837–). Weekly. Northern Liberator (1837–1840). Weekly. Northern Star (1837–1852). Weekly. Penny Satirist (1837–1846; continues 1846 as Penny Satirist and London Pioneer; 1846–1848 as London Pioneer; 1848 as Literary Pioneer). Weekly. Publishers' Circular (1837–1959). The Era (1838–1939). Weekly Journal of the Statistical Society of London (1838–1886, continued as Journal of the Royal Statistical Society) The Monthly Chronicle: A National Journal of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art (1838–1841). Monthly. The Art Union Monthly Journal, soon renamed The Art Journal (1839–1912). Monthly
1840s
Millennial Star (1840–1970). Monthly The Musical Journal (1840). Weekly. Peter Parley's Annual (1840–1892). Annually. Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal, later became British Medical Journal (1840–) Annals and Magazine of Natural History (1841–), later became Journal of Natural History The Gardeners' Chronicle (1841–) The Jewish Chronicle (1841–). Weekly Punch (1841–1992). Weekly. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art (1842–1854) The Friend (1842–). Weekly. Illustrated London News (1842–). Weekly. 6d. Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper (1842–). Weekly. The Musical Examiner (1842–1844). Weekly. The Illustrated Weekly Times (1843–1843). Weekly. The Builder (1843–). Weekly. The Economist (1843–). Weekly. Family Friend (1842–). Weekly The Family Herald: A Domestic Magazine of Useful Information & Amusement (1843–1940). Weekly. News of the World (1843–2011). Weekly. 3d. Pictorial Times (1843–1848). Weekly. The Zoologist (1843–). Monthly. Archaeological Journal (1844–). Quarterly (annually after 1927) The Musical Times (1844–). Monthly. The North British Review (1844–1871). Quarterly. Preston Guardian (1844–; renamed Farmers Guardian in 1958) The Prospective Review: A Quarterly Journal of Theology and Literature (1845–1855). Quarterly. The British Quarterly Review (1845–1886). Quarterly. Hood's Magazine and Comic Miscellany (1845–1849). Monthly. The London Journal (1845–1906). Weekly. Norfolk News (1845–). Weekly. Sharpe's London Journal (1845–1870). Weekly 1845–1847, monthly 1848–1870. British Mothers' Magazine (1845–64). Monthly. Juvenile Companion, and Sunday-School Hive (1845–1891). Monthly. Archaeologia Cambrensis (1846–1999). Annually. Le Follet (1846–). Monthly. The Guardian [Anglican newspaper] (1846–1951). Weekly. Prophwyd y Jubili (1846–1848). Monthly. Lady's Newspaper and Pictorial Times (1847–1863). Weekly. The Rambler (1848–1862). Weekly (January–August 1848), then monthly (until February 1589), then bimonthly (until 1862). Red Republican (1848–1850). Weekly. Eliza Cook's Journal (1849–1853). Weekly. Notes and Queries (1849–). Weekly. Spirit of Freedom, and Working Man's Vindicator (1849–1850)
1850s
Photographic Journal. The Journal of the Photographic Society (periodical)|Journal of the Photographic Society (1853–). Monthly. British Journal of Photography (periodical)|British Journal of Photography (1854–). Weekly. Photographic News (periodical)|Photographic News (1858–). Weekly. The Germ (1850–1850). Monthly. Harper's New Monthly Magazine (1850–). Monthly. Household Words (1850–1859). Weekly. The Leader (1850–1860). Weekly. Reynold's News (1850–). Weekly. Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Younger Members of the English Church (1851–1899). Monthly. Racing Times (1851–1868). Weekly. The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine (1852–1874; 1877; 1880–1890). Monthly. Craven Herald (1853–). Monthly; later weekly. The Field (1853–) The London Quarterly Review (1853–1900). Quarterly. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science (1853–1965; from 1966 the Journal of Cell Science) Alnwick Mercury (1854–; renamed Alnwick and County Gazette in 1883, Northumberland and Alnwick Gazette in 1943, and Northumberland Gazette in 1947) Morpeth Herald (1854–). Monthly; weekly from 1858. The National Review (1855–1864). Quarterly. The Orcadian (1854–). Monthly, then weekly. Swindon Advertiser and Monthly Record (1854–). Monthly, 1d.; from 1855 weekly; from 1898 daily. Illustrated Times (1855–1872). Weekly. Boys' Own Magazine (1855–1874) Derbyshire Times (1855–). Weekly. The Harrow Monthly Gazette and General Advertiser (1855–). 2d. Local Government Chronicle (1855–) Military Chronicle and Naval Spectator (1855–; later Rochester, Chatham and Gillingham News). Weekly. The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art (1855–1938). Weekly. The Weekly News (1855–). Weekly.