Links and Publications
The following is a growing selection of publications and websites related to (primarily European) periodical research. If you have any suggestions, please send an e-mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
New and recent publications of interest:
- The second edition of the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (ncse): www.ncse.ac.uk. Laurel Brake, Jim Mussell, and Mark Turner.
- Médiévisme et Lumières: le Moyen Age dans la 'Bibliothèque universelle des romans'. Véronique Sigu.
- The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, Volume III: Europe 1880 - 1940. Edited by Peter Brooker, Sascha Bru, Andrew Thacker and Christian Weikop.
- Countercultural Colophon: Grove Press, the Evergreen Review, and the Incorporation of the Avant-Garde. Loren Glass.
- The Germ: Origins and Progenies of Pre-Raphaelite Interart Aesthetics. Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts. Paola Spinozzi and Elisa Bizzotto.
- National Identity in Great Britain and British North America, 1815–1851: The Role of Nineteenth-Century Periodicals. Linda E. Connors and Mary Lu MacDonald.
- William Maginn and the British Press: A Critical Biography. David E. Latané.
- Before George Eliot: Marian Evans and the Periodical Press. Fionnuala Dillane.
- W.T. Stead: Newspaper Revolutionary. Edited by Laurel Brake, Ed King, Roger Luckhurst and James Mussell.
Research networks, societies and centres:
- History in Popular Cultures of Knowledge, University of Freiburg (English site)
- Institut Deutsche Presseforschung (Institute for the Study of the Historical German Press; in German)
- Middlebrow Network, focused on research on the term "middlebrow" (includes a mailing list)
Research projects and databases:
- Chinese Women's Magazines from the Late Qing and Early Republican Periods, database providing access to Chinese women's magazines from the first half of the 20th century
- Magazines, Travel and Middlebrow Literature in Canada 1925 - 1960; research project on Canadia, but with a focus on the representation of European cities
- Modernist Journals Project, aims to provide digital editions of significant Modernist magazines
- History in German Illustrated Magazines of the 19th Century (ca. 1850-1914/18), University of Freiburg
- Project on Victorian Periodicals "Histories for the Many: Historical Lifeworlds in Victorian Family, Women’s and Children’s Periodicals", University of Freiburg
- The Curran Index (Identifying the men and women whose stories, poems, and articles appeared anonymously in nineteenth-century British periodicals.)
- NoRMMA: Network of Research: Movies, Magazines, Audiences. (A research network situated at the University of Kent but open to all scholars interested in fan and film magazines and their position as a meeting ground between industry and audiences.)
Other websites of interest:
- Book History and Print Culture Network, blog on Interdisciplinary Perspectives from German-Area Scholars
- Europeana, site dedicated to the digitilisation of European cultural heritage
- At the Free University Berlin several researchers are concerned with periodical research; see the Institute for Media and Communication Studies and the Institute for Arts and Media Management
- Magazine Modernisms, blog dedicated to Modern Periodical Research
- Mapping the Magazine 3, papers presented at the Mapping the Magazine 3 Conference, held at Cardiff University 7 and 8 July 2011
- Nineteenth Century Index, source for nineteenth-century books, periodicals, official documents, newspapers and archives
- Research cluster Asia and Europe in a Global Context at the University of Heidelberg, includes research on public spheres and periodicals
- Weimar Studies Network, resources on the history, culture and society of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933); includes links to German periodicals online