A collection covering the growth of readership, including magazines for women, children and leisure interests.
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The text of 460 journals published between the 1680s and the 1930s. This archive includes millions of facsimile pages from a wide range of publications from scholarly and professional titles through to art periodicals, penny weeklies and illustrated family magazines.
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This archive gives you highly respected commentary and analysis of global news each week from 1843 to 2015. Search by subject or browse by date. The articles are full facsimiles, including photos and charts.
Read about financial crises as they happened.
Access the full text of popular entertainment industry magazine archives, including New Musical Express, Variety, The Stage and Screen International.
History students may also find Picturegoer 1921-1960 very useful.
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Search all the newspaper and magazine archives which we buy from Gale Cengage in one go. Once you've done a search, use Term Clusters and Term Frequency on the right of the screen to help you analyse your results.
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Originally known as The London Gazette, this was the first official journal of record and the newspaper of the Crown. The Gazette became an authoritative and reliable source of news. Today, The Gazette is divided into service-specific areas of interest: Wills and Probate, Insolvency and the All Notices board; with sector-related guides, industry news and other useful resources encouraging users to tailor searches. To access historic content from 1665 onwards, use the column down the left where there is a publication date option.
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A searchable archive of the US (1867 to present) and UK (1930-2015) editions of Harper's Bazaar. This resource chronicles over 150 years of American, British, and international fashion, culture, and society, supporting researchers by offering unique insights into the events, attitudes, and interests of the modern era.
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Uncover detailed information about feminist magazines produced by women who campaigned for equality during the 1970s and 1980s. Each entry includes where to find the magazines and links to online copies where possible. Compared to magazines today, these publications contain fewer images and advertisements. They were often non-commercial ventures, produced on a shoe-string budget and reliant on free feminist labour. The financial support of the Greater London Council was vital to magazines such as Spare Rib and Outwrite, while Mukti had funding from Camden Council.
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Social Shanghai was a magazine founded by Mina Shorrock in Shanghai in early 1906. It began as a monthly publication for "ladies" and expanded over time to cover all aspects of social life in Shanghai and other Chinese treaty ports, including fashions, sports and recreation, weddings, gardening, home furnishings, school education, infrastructure, travels, municipal council departments, shows and exhibitions, literature, book reviews, music, and personal sketches. It was the first foreign-language magazine published in China that reproduced substantially photographs in its pages.
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Search over 15 ProQuest archives in 1 single search. Content includes
- magazines like Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Prima, She
- magazines covering cinema, theatre, TV, radio and gaming
- 19th century British periodicals
- a range of newspapers, including The Guardian and Observer, South China Morning Post and 19th century Chinese newspapers which were published in English
- the John Johnson archive of printed ephemera
A magazine archive chronicling the lives of Britain’s black community during the 1970s and 1980s. First launched in 1973, it combined radical journalism with campaigning zeal to shine a light on the issues affecting Britain’s black communities, as well as providing insight and commentary on politics in Britain and abroad. The years available in this archive range from 1974 - 1988.
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The famous US weekly magazine
A complete searchable archive of American Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month. Every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out has been included. You can find images by garment type, designer and brand names.
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Search the backfiles of leading women's magazines from the late-19th century through to 2005. Titles include Company, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Parents, Prima, Seventeen and She from the UK, US and Canada. If you want to search just the UK versions, go to Advanced Search, then scroll to Place of Publication and tick London. Access more recent content via PressReader.
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One of the fashion industry's most influential journals, coverage is from the first issue in 1910 to material from within the last twelve months. Every page, article, advertisement and cover has been included and is fully searchable.
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