VC Library's collection of British and international periodicals, i.e. newspapers and magazines, is extensive. Some are available digitally, some on microfilm, and some in print. Some print periodicals are shelved in the Periodical Room on the second floor of the Main Library, others are housed in the Special Collections and Archives Library on the lower floor of the Main Library. Items outside of Special Collections can be accessed whenever the Library is open. To view items in Special Collections, email spcoll
Magazines are also included in many of the Archival Collection databases. Search for any individual newspaper or magazine title in Journals, a button in the yellow box on the library webpage.
Digitized version of The Times, the newspaper of record for the United Kingdom, from its founding in 1785. Date range: 1785-2019
See also The Times sister publication, The Sunday Times
Digitized version of the British weekly newspaper The Sunday Times from its founding in 1822 until 2021
The Sunday Times is the sister publication of The Times, a separate London-based daily newspaper founded in 1785.
Federated search of the central indexes and catalogues of nineteenth-century Anglo-American publications. Searches are not run against the full text of books and articles, but rather the bibliographic records for those publications. However, links to full text are sometimes available.
Results are divided into six possible sections, based on the indexes searched: books, periodicals, official (government) publications, archives, newspapers, and reference works.
Books:
Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue; The Nineteenth Century publishing program,
Periodicals:
ProQuest’s American Periodicals; ProQuest’s British Periodicals; Cotgreave's Index; An Index to Legal Periodical Literature; Cumulative Index to Niles' Register, 1811–1849; Periodicals Index Online; Poole's Index to Periodical Literature; Stead's Index to Periodical Literature; The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900
Official Publications:
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers; Proceedings of the Old Bailey; The U.S. Serial Set
Archives:
Archive Finder
Newspapers:
Palmer's Index to The Times
Reference:
The "Bookman" Directory of Booksellers, Publishers and Authors; Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism
Local, regional, and national newspapers selected by the British Library to best represent social, political, and cultural events in the United Kingdom during the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. Date range: 1714-1950
Local and regional newspapers were chosen from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also present in the collection.
Popular magazines published in England, Australia, Canada, India, and South Africa during the nineteenth century. Topics include literature, culture, feminism, politics, empire, sport and leisure, science and medicine. Date range 1800-1900
The original versions of most publications are held by the British Library, the National Library of Scotland, the National Library of South Africa, and the National Library of Australia.
Titles in Print or Microfilm
This is a sampling of the holdings of news periodicals and popular magazines
The Lancet Microfilm 739 1823-1937 (use Science Direct database as an index)
Punch AP101.8 1842-1992
Contemporary Review AP4.C76 1866-current
Fortnightly Review AP4.F7 1865-1934
Freeman's Journal (Dublin) 1806-1902 microfilm 1048
The Spectator AP4.S7 1874-current
Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine AP4.B6 1817-1905
The Cornhill Magazine AP4.C8 1860-1888
The Westminster Review AP4.W5 1824-1914
Illustrated London News Microfilm 266 1842-1899
Pall Mall Gazette Microfilm 342 1876-1885
Poor Man's Guardian Microfilm 155 1831-1835
The Times (London) Microfilm 1023 1785-current
Manchester Guardian Folio AP4.M27 1914-1919