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 2012 (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 most issues