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Description
This list of the periodicals published in Britain during the years of the First World War was assembled from a number of sources, and consists of over 1000 titles of periodicals, categorised as either magazines, journals or newspapers, and then assigned to one or more subject categories. The dataset records whether the title was in print during each year of the period under study, and in most cases adds notes on the provenance of the data (if not from the Writers� & Artists� Yearbook, A&C Black, 1914-19), and other remarks on amalgamation and content where known. These data are not comprehensive but the list represents the most detailed assessment of periodicals in print for this period.
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Resource Type: |
Dataset |
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Creators: |
Macdonald, Kate ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8667-4051 |
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Rights-holders: |
Kate Macdonald |
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Data Publisher: |
University of Reading |
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Publication Year: |
2017 |
| Data last accessed: |
23 October 2025 |
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DOI: |
https://doi.org/10.17864/1947.46 |
| Metadata Record URL: |
https://researchdata.reading.ac.uk/id/eprint/46 |
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Organisational units: |
Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Literature and Languages > English Literature |
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Keywords: |
First World War, periodicals, magazines, newspapers, journals, Britain |
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Rights: |
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Data Availability: |
OPEN |
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| Resource Language: |
English |
| Collection period: |
From April 2015 To February 2016 |
| Temporal coverage: |
From August 1914 To December 1919 |
| Geographic coverage: |
UK |
| Data collection method: |
The data were collected by hand, and entered into an xls spreadsheet, using these sources:
Annual editions of the Writers� & Artists� Yearbook, (London: A&C Black, 1914-19);
the British Library catalogue;
SOLO, the online catalogue of the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford;
the Reading Experience Database hosted by the Open University (http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/RED/);
H. Simonis, The Street of Ink (London: Cassell & Co, 1917);
Joseph McAleer, Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain, 1914�1950 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992);
Michael Ashley, The Age of the Storytellers. British Popular Fiction Magazines, 1880-1920 (London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2006);
Patrick Belk�s Pulp Magazine Project (http://www.pulpmags.org);
the digitised periodicals in Stephen Donovan�s ConradFirst site (http://www.conradfirst.net/);
the Fiction Mags Index, edited by William B Contento and Phil Stephensen-Payne (http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/0start.htm). |
| Additional Information: |
The data were analysed statistically for a publication (Kate Macdonald, �Popular magazines�, in The Edinburgh Companion to the First World War, in ed. Ann-Marie Einhaus (Edinburgh University Press, 2017). |
| Depositing User: |
Kate Ie1hy2rvbmfsza==
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| Date Deposited: |
03 Mar 2016 12:16 |
| Last Modified: |
24 Oct 2025 00:04 |
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