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19th UK Periodicals Online: Series 1
Series 1 is:-
to be released in October 2007. This collection marks the rise of commercial lifestyle publishing in Britain and charts the rapid rise 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 charts the explosion in popular sports and hobbies, from gardening and horse racing to cricket, cycling and golf.
Features:
New Readerships: 1,200,000 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 humour
- Our first colour digital archive (where published originally in colour)
- Cross-disciplinary in approach
- New imaging sourced from multiple libraries worldwide
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