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Magazine Issues

British Boy in Sport, in Earnest, at Home, at School and Abroad

Total Issues: 10

Issues & Index Sources: 1866 – 1867

Publishers: Hall
Frequency: monthly

British Boys [1883]

Total Issues: 13

Issues & Index Sources: 29-Nov-1884 – 21-Feb-1885

Publishers:   St. George's Publishing Office
Editors:   George Emmett
Frequency:   weekly

British Boys [1896]

Total Issues: 104

Issues & Index Sources: 12-Dec-1896 – 3-Dec-1898

Publishers:   Newnes
Formats:   tabloid
Prices:   ½d
Pagecounts:   12pp; 8pp
Frequency:   weekly

British Boys' Paper

Total Issues: 86

Formerly the New Boys' Paper, relaunched after a two-week gap. Numbered to issue 46, dated thereafter.

Issues & Index Sources

13-Mar-1888 – 19-Oct-1889

#incorporated into Guy Rayner's Boys' Own Journal

Publishers

Aldine Publishing Co.; Popular Publishing Co. (Guy Rayner) from #46

Prices

Frequency

weekly

British Girl

Total Issues: 24

Issues & Index Sources: 23-Jul-1921 – 31-Dec-1921

Publishers: United Newspapers Ltd
Frequency: weekly

British Juvenile

Total Issues: 166

Issues & Index Sources: Jul-1886 – Oct-1879

Publishers: Willoughby
Frequency: monthly

British Library

Total Issues: 4

Issues & Index Sources: in 1940s

Publishers: Howe

The British Magazine

Perhaps the first magazine to be edited by a major novelist; contributors included Smollett (his novel "Launcelot Greaves," 1760-1) and Oliver Goldsmith.

Issues & Index Sources: Jan-1760 – Dec-1767

Publishers:   James Rivington & James Pletcher; H. Payne; later John Newbery
Editors:   Tobias Smollett (assisted by Oliver Goldsmith)
Formats:   Octavo
Frequency:   monthly
Sources:   BritLit1

British Quarterly Review

Issues & Index Sources: 1845 – 1886:	The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals Volume 4
	Index to Periodical Literature

British Science Fiction Magazine

see under Vargo Statten Science Fiction Magazine

British Space Fiction Magazine

see under Vargo Statten Science Fiction Magazine

The British Weekly

Published much of the internationally popular "Kailyard" school of Scottish regional fiction in the late 19th century (J. M. Barrie, S. R. Crockett, Ian Maclaren, etc). Still going in 1933 when its editor encouraged James Hilton to write his famous novella "Goodbye, Mr Chips."

Issues & Index Sources

5-Nov-1886 – 7-Dec-1961

14-Dec-1961 – ?, as The British Weekly and Christian World

Publishers

publication shifted to Edinburgh in Jan-1959

Editors

1886 – 1923: William Robertson Nicoll
in 1934: Rev John A. Hutton

Frequency

weekly

The British Workman

"World famous for its healthy, elevating literature, and first-class pictures." Was running a serial at least in 1904, which was given as it's Jubilee year.

Issues & Index Sources: 1855? – ?

Publishers:   S.W. Partridge & Co., 8 & 9 Paternoster Row, London E.C.
Editors:   Thomas Bywater Smithie (initially)
Prices:   1d
Pagecounts:   c. 12pp
Frequency:   monthly

The Briton

Total Issues: 11

Issues & Index Sources: 4-Jun-1927 – 17-Aug-1927

Publishers: Peel Publishing Co.
Frequency: weekly

Briton's Own Library

Total Issues: 18

Contains complete stories of 70-80,000 words.

Issues & Index Sources: Sep-1914 – Feb-1916

Publishers:   Aldine Publishing Co., 1 Crown Court, London W.C.
Editors:   Percy Bishop
Pagecounts:   132pp

Broadsheet Novels

Total Issues: 6

Each issue was a complete (but perhaps condensed) novel.

Issues & Index Sources: 25-Jul-1936

Publishers:   Amalgamated Press
Formats:   broadsheet
Prices:   2d
Pagecounts:   24pp
Frequency:   6 per month

Broadsword

Total Issues: 4

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 1995 – #4, 1996:

Miller/Contento

Publishers:   Dreamscape International, Barking
Editors:   Nancy Sparling
Formats:   quarto
Prices:   £2.50
Pagecounts:   40pp
Frequency:   roughly quarterly

The Broadway

Heavy emphasis on serials plus quality short fiction but fell short of its aims. Authors include Henry Kingsley, Mrs Pender Cudlip.

Issues & Index Sources: Sep-1867 – Dec-1872:

Index to Periodical Literature

Publishers:   Routledge, London
Formats:   standard (imitation Cornhill)
Prices:   1/-
Frequency:   monthly