Research Guides: Victorian Literature: Victorian Periodicals

Victorian Periodicals

Nineteenth Century Collections Online
1780-1925. Collection of primary source materials created during the "long nineteenth century" (late 1700s to early 1900s). Includes books, periodicals, diaries, letters, photographs, maps, sheet music, and more.

Dickens Journals Online
Includes All the Year Round (1859-1870), Household Words (1850-1859), Household Narrative of Current Events (1850-1855), and Household Words Almanac (1856-1857).
NCSE: Nineteenth Century Serials Edition
Includes Monthly Repository (1806-1837), Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Northern Star (1838-1852), Leader (1850-1860), English Woman's Journal (1858-1864), Tomahawk (1867-1870), and Publisher's Circular (1880-1890).
Academy
Bentley's Miscellany
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
British Medical Journal
Contemporary Review
Edinburgh Review
Longman's Magazine
MacMillan's Magazine
Temple Bar

Periodicals Index Online (PIO)
1665 - present. Provides indexing for magazines and journals back to 1665. This database pairs with Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) for its available full text in the social sciences and humanities.

Science in the 19th Century Periodical (SciPer Index)
Search the science content of several British nineteenth-century general periodicals. Articles published 1800-1900.
At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837-1901
Biographic and bibliographic database of nineteenth-century British fiction. Includes serialization information from over 150 periodicals.
The Periodical Poetry Index: A Research Database of Poetry in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals
Database of citations to English-language poems published in nineteenth-century periodicals.
Attributions of Authorship in the European Magazine, 1782-1826
Searchable list of "known attributions of authorship of anonymous, pseudonymous, or incompletely attributed articles, letters, reviews, and poems appearing in the European Magazine throughout its entire 89-volume run."

The Waterloo Directory of Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900 by Michael Wolff, John S. North, and Dorothy Deering
Call Number: Ref. Z 6956 .G6 W63

Lists newspaper and periodical titles published in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales between 1824 and 1900. In the Pius Library Reference collection, Level 2 North.

19th Century British Pamphlets
Throughout the 19th century, pamphlets were an important means of public debate, covering the key political, social, technological, and environmental issues of their day. 19th Century British Pamphlets (part of JSTOR) contains the most significant British pamphlets from the 19th century held in research libraries in the UK.

Times Digital Archive (London), 1785-1985

1785-1985. Search the first 200 years of The Times (London) and display and print page images of individual articles or an entire page.
Economist Historical Archive 1843-2015
1843-2015. Search over 160 years of this digital archive by keyword or browse by date. All articles, financial tables (that are also exportable), special reports, surveys, and advertising are searchable.