The Index to British Popular Fiction Magazines is an attempt to provide an index to the most important British popular magazines between 1880 and 1950. It is intended as a complement to Mike Ashley's outstanding study of the magazines of this period (The Age of the Storytellers, British Library, 2006) and will be published on CD-ROM by THE BRITISH LIBRARY, National Bibliographic Service in 2008 (or thereabouts).
As can be imagined with a project of this magnitude (comprising 11,513 individual issues from 72 different magazines), the compilers would welcome any offers of assistance from anyone who has access to some of these magazines and is prepared to help out. In particular, they are looking for anybody with access to issues of the weekly magazine Yes Or No - this magazine ran for 798 issues, of which a mere 109 have been located to date.
A full list of the magazines to be covered by the index is given below, together with details of the issues that are currently missing. If you can help out with any of these issues, please contact with details of the issues you have.
Title
Dates
# issues
Missing Issues
Air Stories
May 1935-Apr 1940
60 issues
All-Story Magazine
Oct 1926-Jan 1928
16 issues
Argosy
Jun 1926-Jan 1940
164 issues
Best-Story Magazine
Aug 1926-Mar 1929
32 issues
The Blue Magazine
Jul 1919-Aug 1929
121 issues
Oct-1928
Cassell's Magazine
Dec 1896-Dec 1932
433 issues
Chapman's Magazine of Fiction
May 1895-Oct 1898
42 issues
The Club Room
Nov 1913- ? (May 1914?)
6? issues
any issues from Dec-1913 on
The Corner Magazine
Sep 1922-Feb 1935
149 issues
Mar-1932; May-1932; Apr-1932; May-1932; Jun-1932; Jul-1932;
Aug-1932; Sep-1932; Nov-1932; Dec-1932; Jan-1933; Feb-1933;
Crampton's Magazine
Nov 1898-Dec 1902
50 issues
The Crusoe Magazine
Jun 1924-May 1926
24 issues
The Detective Magazine
24 Nov 1922-8 May 1925
65 issues
Empire Frontier
Aug 1929-Jun 1933
47 issues
English Illustrated Magazine
Oct 1883-Aug 1913
359 issues
Everybody's Story Magazine
Nov 1909-Apr 1914
54 issues
Fantasy
[Jul] 1938-[Jun] 1939
3 issues
The Golden Magazine/The Golden West
Jun 1926-Dec 1928
31 issues
The Grand Magazine
Feb 1905-Apr 1940
422 issues
The Green Magazine
7 Nov 1922-18 Dec 1923
30 issues
The Happy Mag.
Jun 1922-May 1940
215 issues
Harmsworth's/London Magazine
Jul 1898-May 1933
417 issues
The Holborn Monthly Magazine
Apr 1903-Apr 1904
13 issues
Hush
Jun 1930-Jun 1931
13 issues
Hutchinson's [Story] Magazine
Jul 1919-Dec 1929
125 issues
Hutchinson's Adventure & Mystery Story Magazine
Oct 1927-June 1929
21 issues
Hutchinson's Adventure-Story Magazine
Sep 1922-Sep 1927
60 issues
Hutchinson's Mystery-Story Magazine
Feb 1923-Sep 1927
55 issues
The Idler
Feb 1892-Mar 1911
228 issues
The Jolly Mag.
May 1927-Dec 1929
32 issues
The Lady's [Home] Magazine
Jan 1901-Mar 1905
51 issues
The Lady's Realm
Nov 1896-May 1916
235 issues
Lloyd's Story Magazine
Jul 1917-Jan 1923
67 issues
The Ludgate Monthly
May 1891-Feb 1901
118 issues
The Magpie
Aug 1912-Dec 1914
28 issues
The Merry Mag.
Jul 1924-Feb 1930
68 issues
The Minster
Jan 1895-Mar 1896
15 issues
Modern Stories
Aug 1934 - ?
5 issues?
#1 and any after #4
Mystery and Detection
[Aut?] 1934-Oct 1935
9 issues
#6, Jul-1935
Mystery Stories
?1934-Feb 1942
25 issues
#3, #6, #7, #8, #12, #16, #17
Nash's Magazine (later Nash's Pall Mall Magazine)
Apr 1909-Sep 1937
342 issues
The New Magazine
Apr 1909-Dec 1930
260 issues
The Novel Magazine
Apr 1905-Dec 1937
393 issues
Oct-1917; Nov-1917; Jan-1918; Feb-1918; Mar-1918; Apr-1918;
May-1918; Jun-1918; Aug-1918; Dec-1934; Sep-1935; Nov-1935; Sep-1936;
The Pall Mall Magazine
May 1893-Sep 1914
May 1927-Sep 1929286 issues
Pan
Feb 1919-Jun 1919
8 Nov 1919-May 192484 issues
Pearson's Magazine
Jan 1896-Nov 1939
527 issues
The Premier Magazine
May 1914-Mar 1931
256 issues
The Realm
Apr 1904-Sep 1904
6 issues
The Red Magazine
Jun 1908-Sep 1939
620 issues
Romance
Feb 1923-Jul 1927
54 issues
Jun-1927; Jul-1927; any after Jul-1927
The Royal Magazine
Nov 1898-Sep 1939
491 issues
The Sovereign Magazine
Nov 1919-Apr 1927
88 issues
Standard Stories
Jul 1925-May 1926
11 issues
The Story-Teller
Apr 1907-Nov 1937
367 issues
The Strand Magazine
Jan 1891-Mar 1950
710 issues
The Sunny Mag.
Jul 1925-Apr 1933
94 issues
Tales of Wonder
(Sum) 1937- Spr 1942
16 issues
Tip Top Stories (later The Regent Magazine)
Dec 1923-Mar 1925
16 issues
The 20-Story Magazine
Jul 1922-Oct 1940
220 issues
The Universal Magazine
Feb 1900-Dec 1901
20 issues
The Violet Magazine
Jul 1922-Nov 1939
309 issues
War Stories
Oct 1935-1939
48? issues
#6, Mar-1936
The Weekly Tale-Teller
8 May 1909-29 Apr 1916
356 issues
Western Adventures
Feb 1936-Jun 1936
5 issues
The White Magazine
Mar/Apr 1909-Jul/Aug 1909
3 issues
The Windsor Magazine
Jan 1895-September 1939
537 issues
Woman at Home (later The Home Magazine)
Oct 1893 - Jan 1931
447 issues
World Stories
Apr 1928-May 1935
86 issues
Jun-1928; Dec-1930
The Yellow Magazine
23 Sep 1921-17 Sep 1926
130 issues
Yes or No
19 Mar 1904-27 Apr 1918
28 Feb 1921-24 Apr 1922798 issues
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