List of eighteenth-century British periodicals
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- The Spectator (1711)The Spectator (1711)The Spectator was a daily publication of 1711–12, founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in England after they met at Charterhouse School. Eustace Budgell, a cousin of Addison's, also contributed to the publication. Each 'paper', or 'number', was approximately 2,500 words long, and the...
, (1711–1714) daily 1711–1712, founded by Joseph AddisonJoseph AddisonJoseph Addison was an English essayist, poet, playwright and politician. He was a man of letters, eldest son of Lancelot Addison...
and Richard SteeleRichard SteeleSir Richard Steele was an Irish writer and politician, remembered as co-founder, with his friend Joseph Addison, of the magazine The Spectator....
, in 1714 three times a week for six months, but collected in book form it remained hugely popular for the rest of the century. - Vetusta MonumentaVetusta MonumentaVetusta Monumenta is the title of a published series of illustrated antiquarian papers on ancient buildings, sites, and artefacts, mostly those of Britain, published at irregular intervals between 1718 and 1906 by the Society of Antiquaries of London...
(1718–1906) Illustrated antiquarianAntiquarianAn antiquarian or antiquary is an aficionado or student of antiquities or things of the past. More specifically, the term is used for those who study history with particular attention to ancient objects of art or science, archaeological and historic sites, or historic archives and manuscripts...
papers at intermittent intervals, published by the Society of Antiquaries of LondonSociety of Antiquaries of LondonThe Society of Antiquaries of London is a learned society "charged by its Royal Charter of 1751 with 'the encouragement, advancement and furtherance of the study and knowledge of the antiquities and history of this and other countries'." It is based at Burlington House, Piccadilly, London , and is...
. - The Gentleman's MagazineThe Gentleman's MagazineThe Gentleman's Magazine was founded in London, England, by Edward Cave in January 1731. It ran uninterrupted for almost 200 years, until 1922. It was the first to use the term "magazine" for a periodical...
(1731–1907). Monthly. - The London Magazine (1732–1785)
- Lloyd's ListLloyd's ListLloyd's List is one of the world's oldest continuously-running journals, having provided weekly shipping news in London as early as 1734. Now published daily, a recent issue was numbered 59,200...
(1734–). Weekly, then semi-weekly. - The Scots MagazineThe Scots MagazineThe Scots Magazine is a magazine containing articles on subjects of Scottish interest. It is the oldest magazine in the world still in publication although there have been several gaps in its publication history...
(1739–1826). - Universal Magazine (1747–). Founded by Percival StockdalePercival StockdalePercival Stockdale was an English poet, writer and reformer, active especially in opposing slavery.-Biography:Stockdale was born in Branxton, Northumberland. He was an avid intellectual whose education led him to become well acquainted with Greek and Latin classics, nurturing his taste for poetry...
. - The Monthly ReviewMonthly Review (London)The Monthly Review was an English periodical founded by Ralph Griffiths, a Nonconformist bookseller. The first periodical in England to offer reviews, it featured the novelist and poet Oliver Goldsmith as an early contributor. William Kenrick, the "superlative scoundrel", was editor from 1759 to...
(1749–1845). Monthly. Founded by Ralph GriffithsRalph GriffithsRalph Griffiths was a journal editor and publisher of Welsh extraction...
and Robert DodsleyRobert DodsleyRobert Dodsley was an English bookseller and miscellaneous writer.-Life:He was born near Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, where his father was master of the free school....
. Oliver GoldsmithOliver GoldsmithOliver Goldsmith was an Irish writer, poet and physician known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield , his pastoral poem The Deserted Village , and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man and She Stoops to Conquer...
was a contributor. - The RamblerThe RamblerThe Rambler was a periodical by Samuel Johnson.-Description:The Rambler was published on Tuesdays and Saturdays from 1750 to 1752 and totals 208 articles. It was Johnson's most consistent and sustained work in the English language...
(1750–1752). Twice weekly. - The Connoisseur (1754–1756). Weekly.
- The Critical ReviewThe Critical ReviewThe Critical Review was first edited by Tobias Smollett from 1756 to 1763, and was contributed to by Samuel Johnson, David Hume, John Hunter, and Oliver Goldsmith, until 1817....
(1756–1817) - The Annual RegisterAnnual RegisterThe Annual Register is a long-established reference work, written and published each year, which records and analyses the year’s major events, developments and trends throughout the world...
(1758–). Annually. - The BeeThe Bee (magazine)The Bee, or Literary Intelligencer was a British literary magazine started by Oliver Goldsmith in 1759. In it he published "Citizen of the World" and many of his best essays.-External links:*Sample issue at Google Books,...
(1759–) - Exeter Mercury or West Country Advertiser, later Trewman's Exeter Flying PostTrewman's Exeter Flying PostTrewman's Exeter Flying Post was a weekly newspaper published in Exeter between 1763 and 1917.Robert Trewman and William Andrews quarrelled with Andrew Brice, printer of the Exeter Journal, and left him to establish the Exeter Mercury or West Country Advertiser: after several changes of title, the...
(1763–1917) - The Gospel MagazineThe Gospel MagazineThe Gospel Magazine is a Calvinist, evangelical magazine from the United Kingdom, and is one of the longest running of such periodicals, having been founded in 1766. Most of the editors have been Anglicans. It is currently published bi-monthly....
(1766–) - Theological RepositoryTheological RepositoryThe Theological Repository was a periodical founded and edited from 1769 to 1771 by the eighteenth-century British polymath Joseph Priestley...
(1769–1771, 1784, 1786, 1788) - Town and Country MagazineTown and Country MagazineTown and Country Magazine was an 18th century London based publication that featured tales of scandals and affairs between members of London's upper classes.-History:...
(1769–) - Lady's MagazineLady's MagazineThe Lady's Magazine or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, Appropriated Solely to Their Use and Amusement, was a British fashion magazine produced every month from 1770 until 1837 and cost six pence per copy. It was started in August 1770 by London bookseller John Coote and publisher John Wheble...
(1770–1837). Monthly. - The Building Magazine (1774–78)
- Wesleyan Methodist MagazineWesleyan Methodist MagazineThe Wesleyan Methodist Magazine was a monthly Methodist magazine published between 1778 and 1969. Founded by John Wesley as the Arminian Magazine, it was retitled the Methodist Magazine in 1798 and as the Wesleyan Methodist Magazine in 1822.-References:*Jon Topham, 'The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine...
(1778–1969). Monthly - The Arminian Magazine (1778–1913)
- The European Magazine, and London ReviewThe European MagazineEuropean Magazine, published in London, ran from 1782 until 1826, publishing eighty-nine volumes. As the European Magazine, and London Review it was launched in January 1782, promising to offer "the Literature, History, Politics, Arts, Manners, and Amusements of the Age." It was in direct...
(1782–1826). Founded by James PerryJames Perry (journalist)James Perry, born James Pirie was a British journalist and newspaper editor.Admitted to Marischal College, Aberdeen in 1771, he began studying for the Scottish bar. Forced to abandon his studies after his father's building business failed in 1774, he moved to London in 1777...
; later edited by Isaac ReedIsaac ReedIsaac Reed was an English Shakespearean editor.-Life:The son of a baker, he was born in London. He was articled to a solicitor, and eventually set up as a conveyancer at Staple Inn, where he had a large practice.-Works:...
. - A New Review (1782–1786). Edited by Paul Henry MatyPaul Henry MatyPaul Henry Maty was an English librarian.He was born in London, the son of the librarian Matthew Maty and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He vacated a Trinity fellowship to marry in 1775. In 1777 he published his religious doubts about the 39 articles in the Gentleman's Magazine...
. - Annals of Agriculture (1784–1815). Started by Arthur Young.
- The New Town & Country Magazine (1787–89)
- The Analytical ReviewAnalytical ReviewThe Analytical Review was a periodical established in London in 1788 by the publisher Joseph Johnson and the writer Thomas Christie. Part of the Republic of Letters, it was a gadfly publication, which offered readers summaries and analyses of the many new publications issued at the end of the...
(1788–1799) - The Botanical Magazine, subsequently Curtis's Botanical Magazine (1787–)
- The ObserverThe ObserverThe Observer is a British newspaper, published on Sundays. In the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The Guardian, which acquired it in 1993, it takes a liberal or social democratic line on most issues. It is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper.-Origins:The first issue,...
(1791–). Weekly. - The Sporting MagazineThe Sporting MagazineThe Sporting Magazine was the first English sporting periodical to devote itself to every type of sport, thus providing the historian with a reasonably comprehensive source.-History:...
. (1792–). Monthly. - British CriticBritish CriticThe British Critic: A New Review was a quarterly publication, established in 1793 as a conservative and high church review journal riding the tide of British reaction against the French Revolution.-High church review:...
. Quarterly (1793–) - Anthologia hibernica (1793–94). Published in Dublin.
- The Tribune (1795–96). Edited by John ThelwallJohn ThelwallJohn Thelwall , was a radical British orator, writer, and elocutionist.-Life:Thelwall was born in Covent Garden, London, but was descended from a Welsh family which had its seat at Plas y Ward, Denbighshire...
- The Aberdeen Magazine, Or, Universal Repository. (1796–98)
- The Monthly Magazine (1796–). Founded by Sir Richard PhillipsSir Richard PhillipsSir Richard Phillips was an English schoolteacher, author and publisher.Phillips was born in London. Following some political difficulties in Leicester where he was a schoolteacher and bookseller, he returned to London, established premises in Paternoster Row, St. Paul's Churchyard, and founded...
, edited by John AikinJohn AikinJohn Aikin was an English doctor and writer.-Life:He was born at Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire, England, son of Dr. John Aikin, Unitarian divine, and received his elementary education at the Nonconformist academy at Warrington, where his father was a tutor. He studied medicine at the... - The WatchmanThe WatchmanThe Watchman was a short-lived periodical established and edited by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1796.The first number was promised for 5 February 1796 but actually appeared on 1 March. It ceased publication with its tenth number...
(1796). Founded and edited by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla... - The Anti-JacobinAnti-JacobinThe Anti-Jacobin, or, Weekly Examiner was a newspaper founded by George Canning in 1797. William Gifford was its editor. Its first issue was published on 20 November and during the parliamentary session of 1797–98 it was issued every Monday....
, or, Weekly Examiner (1797–98) - The Anti-Jacobin ReviewAnti-Jacobin ReviewThe Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine, or, Monthly Political and Literary Censor , a conservative British political periodical, was founded by John Gifford [pseud. of John Richards Green] after the demise of William Gifford's The Anti-Jacobin, or, Weekly Examiner...
(1798–1821) - The Philosophical MagazinePhilosophical MagazineThe Philosophical Magazine is one of the oldest scientific journals published in English. Initiated by Alexander Tilloch in 1798, in 1822 Richard Taylor became joint editor and it has been published continuously by Taylor & Francis ever since; it was the journal of choice for such luminaries as...
(1798–) - The Asiatic annual register (1799–1811)