Magazine-related websites
This page links to websites about magazines, magazine publishers, design and related information in the UK and internationally. Most of the resources are free. Access to many paid-for sources can be had through university and reference libraries, such as the British Library and the City Business Library in London. The resources include:- UK sources of information
- Magazine blogs
- Digital publishing platforms
- Consultancies, printers, agencies and software
- International sources
- Careers and training
- To buy magazines and subscriptions
- Collecting magazines
- Books and book publishers (separate page)
UK sources of magazine information
- ABC Audit Bureau of Circulations. Sales figures
- Advertising Archives images; buying & selling; magazine valuation
- ALF data on advertising industry and contacts (subscription)
- Advertising Standards Authority for complaints
- Content Marketing Association New name for the Association of Publishing Agencies (contract publishers)
- Archives of magazines and newspapers online:
- British Library history of newspapers
- BLT19: Nineteenth-Century Business, Labour, Temperance and Trade Periodicals. Run by Prof Andrew King at Greenwich University
- Cengage press archives
- Guardian archive since 1821 and the Observer since 1791
- Magazine Rack: 100s of free digitised magazines, from The Strand to Acorn User to The Builder
- Times Online: since 1985
- UK Press Online
- Artifact/Intute academic portal sites for creative industries (archive - no longer updated)
- Association of Newspaper and Magazine Wholesalers (ANMW) represents Smiths News, Menzies Distribution and Dawson News
- UK Association of Online Publishers (AOP)
- Bear Alley covers the work of illustrators on comics, magazines and books. Named after the passage that runs up the side of Fleetway House on Farringdon St, home to the once mighty Amalgamated Press (now part of IPC)
- Blam, the unexpected Blampied: photos of exhibition devoted to the magazine illustrator and artist Edmund Blampied
- BLT19: business, labour, temperance and trade periodicals in the 19th century. Run by Prof Andrew King at Greenwich University
- Bonzo and George Studdy all about the illustrator and his once universally-known creation by Richard Fitzpatrick
- BRAD collates industry data on magazines (subscription)
- Branded Content Marketing Association industry body
- Branded Content Research Hub at the University of the Arts, London
- British Letterpress: guides to most aspects of letterpress printing
- British Society of Magazine Editors (BSME)
- British Library for history of papers, comics and magazines
- BUBL publishing portal for academics (archived site)
- Bulleteer Bill about the legendary Bullets competition in John Bull magazine. Based on the entries of 'Master of the Bullets' William H Cowmeadow
- Centre for Printing History and Culture
- Cengage runs historical subscription archives for newspapers and magazines, including Illustrated London News, Picture Post, the Economist and the Times
- Centre for Ephemera Studies at the University of Reading holds archive of Maurice Rickards
- Computer magazine history by David Viner
- Cover Browser 255,882 images focusing on comics
- Creative Review monthly design magazine
- Detective Fiction video about English literature course by Andrew King of Greenwich University
- Academic Bob Nicholson's blog about Victoriana
- The Drum marketing and media magazine
- Economist archive (1843-2003) subscription-based fascimile pages
- Ephemera Society founded in 1975 by Maurice Rickards, who worked as a magazine illustrator and designer, for example on Man About Town
- Full Table Chris Mullen set up his own site when a university took his pages down (which is how Magforum started too!). This link goes to the magazines menu - but expect to get lost (and engaged)
- The Frank Bellamy Checklist Blog Norman Boyd been working on a checklist of all the Eagle artist's work since 1976. He also has a blog on Raymond Sheppard
- Genome Project has digitised all the listings text from the Radio Times for 1923-2009
- Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communication Management
- Guardian media section on Mondays
- Guardian selection from archives back to 1899
- Andrew Hall's Three is a Collection... with bibliographies of the writer JL Carr and the illustrator Edmund Blampied, plus bookplates and engravings by Stephen Gooden and others
- History of Advertising Trust marketing archive
- Illustrated Londonn News archive
- Independent media section on Mondays
- John Sandilands - celebrating the writer's work, particularly for the legendary Nova, by Liz Hodgkinson
- Journalism.co.uk
- Journalism Studies academic journal
- Journalists and journalism page for schools
- Magazine indexes by Phil Stephensen-Payne
- Magculture.com design blog by Jeremy Leslie
- Magforum blog - Magforum spin-off
- Mary Evans picture library -holds many collections, including Illustrated London News and Sketch and Men Only pin-up illustrator David Wright
- Mediatel databases for subscribers
- Media UK covers magazines andnewspapers
- National Federation of Retail Newsagents
- NRS National Readership Survey of magazines
- Old Classic Car collecting motoring magazines
- Oxford Brookes University list of publishing resources (Magforum: 'Excellent magazine publishing resource'!)
- OZ magazine front covers
- OZ magazine (London issues) archive at the University of Woollongong
- OZ magazine (Sydney issues) archive at the University of Woollongong
- PPA Periodical Publishers Association, trade body
- Press Gazette weekly trade paper for journalists
- Print v digital. Debate resources at New York City College of Technology
- Newtrade publishes Retail Newsagent, a weekly trade magazine
- Radio Times: Genome Project has digitised all the listings text from the Radio Times for 1923-2009
- RadioTimesBackNumbers.com is run by Lynda Kelly, an expert on radio and television literature. Her site sells back issues with menus that are easy to drill down through (title/decade/year) as well as a general search
- Radio Times Archive carries articles about what’s happening now as well as the magazine’s history. It has pages of mastheads, facts and figures, and a PDF of the first Radio Times from 1923
- Radio Times: How to track down a copy. Advice from Magforum's Wordpress blog
- Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
- Roy Greenslade journalism blog at the Guardian
- St Bride printing library on London's Fleet Street
- Star Wars vintage magazines 1500 indexed titles
- http://www.studium.com/holmes/strand01.html: was Stadium index of Strand magazine
- Stationers' Company Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers enforced copyright until the early 20th century. Now the City of London livery company for the communications and content industries with a hall in Ave Maria Lane near St Paul's Cathedral
- Sun Printers history by Shirley Greenman and Peter Greenhill
- Tim Holmes' Magblog at Cardiff university
- Typographic Hub Headed up by Caroline Archer at Birmingham Institute of Art & Design; also host to the Baskerville Society
- Victorian Periodicals Review academic journal
- Vinmag Archive holds 250,000 magazines, among other ephemera. Picture agency and research work undertaken
- Winning Competitions tips on how to enter
- Women's Library at the London School of Economics
- Wynkyn de Worde Society founded in 1957. Takes its name from William Caxton's journeyman, who, after Caxton's death, was the first printer to set up shop in Fleet Street
- Zinio publishes titles in digital format
Magazine blogs
- Exact Editions digital magazines blog
- Gale newspaper and magazine archives
- Magblog by Cardiff academic Tim Holmes
- Magculture.com design focus from Jeremy Leslie
- Magforum's own blog
Digital magazine publishing platforms
- Exact Editions digital magazines blog
- Nxtbook Media digital magazines
- GTxcel digital publishing and mobile
- Zinio digital magazines and books
Magazine consultancies, printers, agencies and software
- Cue Ball consultancy
- Jellyfish search engine marketing for mags
- Pensord magazine printing
- Smithers Pira technical consultancy
- Pressmart digital magazine software
- Publishing Software Co for advertising sales, reader replies, subscription management, etc
- Times Printers specialise in big runs in Singapore
- Web Windows buys advertising space online for clients
- Wessenden media research consultancy
International sources
- Advertising Age US trade title
- AEJMC US association for journalism education
- American Journalism Review
- American Society of Magazine Editors now part of the News Media Alliance
- Art Gallery Worldwide> art-related website
- Collecting books and magazines (Australia)
- Columbia Journalism Review - Who Owns What
- FIPP represents 50,000 titles in 37 countries
- Yves Chaland and French comic books, bandes dessinées
- IFABC International federation of sales auditing
- Irish media information
- Magazine Art in US titles - extensive illustrations and good links
- History of US magazine covers by Gerald Grow
- Magazine Launch covers the details of launching a title
- Media columns in US papers:
- New York Post media pages
- New York Observer Sunday media section
- New York Times media (subscribers only)
- Wall Street Journal media (subscribers)
- Media groups profiled by Caslon Analytics in Australia (archived site)
- Metal Hurlant covers and catalogue
- New Media Alliance US trade group represents magazines
- MPA Magazine Publishers of Australia
- New Zealand papers and periodicals at National Library
- Norman Saunders US pulp men's magazines illustrator
- Paperboy links to publications worldwide
- Pixelyn's covers collection [closed] - see Web Archive
- The Pulp Zone [closed] - see Web Archive
- Time magazine has archive
- Vinmag Archive holds 250,000 magazines, among other ephemera. Picture agency and research work undertaken
- Walkleys magazine on Australian media
- Women's magazines in China project at Heidelberg University
- World Newspapers and magazines
Magazine careers and training
- Cardiff School of Journalism
- City University (London) journalism courses
- Falmouth University. School of writing and journalism
- Inddtraining for training on Adobe InDesign
- Kingston University postgraduate magazine journalism
- London College of Communication (was LCP)
- Oxford Centre for Publishing (Oxford Brookes University).
- PPA magazine publishers' trade body
- Winchester University journalism degree
To buy magazines and subscriptions
- See Collecting Magazines page
- Beatchapter for music magazines, sunday magazines & underground press
- www.magazinecafe.co.uk Magazine Cafe run by magazine distributor Comag
- Magazines Celebrity offers a full range of celebrity magazines, old and new. Based in Martham, Norfolk
- MagsDirect stocks titles from four four of the biggest publishers: Bauer (previously EMAP), H Bauer, Haymarket and Immediate (previously BBC Worldwide) - about a third of the UK market
- Mags UK for Time Inc UK and Haymarket titles
- News Stand offers 3000 subscriptions. Founded 1996
- Tilleys vintage magazines
- Vintage Magazine Co stock goes back a century
Collecting magazines - see Collecting Magazines page
Websites about magazines: links
