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Consisting of more than 600 titles selected by leading academics in 23 subject areas, 19th Century U.K. Periodicals is an invaluable resource for the study of English life in the 19th century – from art to business, and from children to politics. Most of the materials in this extensive online collection have never been reissued, in any format, since their original publication. The collection consists of five series comprising 1.2 million pages each:.

Future Series:

• Culture: Literature, Visual and Performing Arts
• Working Life: Agriculture, the Professions, Trade and Industry and Medicine
• Knowledge: Academic, Field Sciences, Philanthropic, Political, Religious and Scientific Journals

Part 1

Women and Children, Sports and Leisure, Humour and Satire –

This collection charts the rise of commercial lifestyle publishing in Britain and reflects the rapid development of modern magazine culture.

Among the key themes are:

• The political spectrum of women's writing, from Hearth and Home to the Women's Penny Paper, offering important evidence of women's changing status in the 1800s
• Satirical and comic titles, such as Fun, Punch, and Figaro in London, offering insight into what made people laugh during these times
• The rapid increase of publications devoted to children's entertainment and education, with Boy's Own Paper and Good Words for the Young
• This first series also demonstrates the explosion in popular sports and hobbies, from gardening and horse racing to cricket, cycling and golf.

Features:

New Readerships: 1.2 million pages

• Major new series during a time of revolutionary change and expansion in the 19th century world
• Wide variety of periodicals from topics such as politics, the rural life, children's literature, leisure and humor
• Our first color digital archive (where published originally in color)
• Cross-disciplinary in approach
• New imaging sourced from multiple libraries worldwide

Part 2

Empire: Travel and Anthropology, Economics, Missionary and Colonial

The expansion of Empire was a pervading influence within 19th century British history. This series includes titles from India, Canada, South and East Africa, Australia and New Zealand alongside British titles, and covers both the economic and non-mercantile aspects of British expansionism. Drawing from the remarkable collection of the Royal Geographical Society and Commonwealth National Libraries it contains titles such as: Capital and Labour, Liberty Review, The Canadian Journal, The Friend of India, The Asiatic Review and Colonial Chronicle.

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