Magazines
Guides to the titles themselves: what they are for, how they began and who reads them.
- Magazine guide
The Best Fashion Magazines: Famous Names, UK Editions and What Each Title Is Really For
Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, i-D and a dozen more, sorted by what they do for a reader rather than by who shouts loudest.
- Magazine history
Vogue Magazine: Its History, Famous Covers and National Editions from Britain to Latin America
From a New York society weekly in 1892 to some two dozen national editions, with the dates that can be confirmed and the ones that cannot.
- Magazine history
The Oldest Magazine in the World: First Titles, History and Etymology
Four titles can each claim to be first, depending on what you count. This page sorts them by date, shows where the word magazine came from and says which answer holds up best.
- Journals explained
Types of Journals: Different Academic, Trade and Personal Kinds, with Examples
The Lancet, a poetry quarterly and a notebook of dreams are all called journals. This guide sorts the kinds by who writes them, who reads them and who pays.
- Art magazines
Best Art Magazines UK: The Independent and Contemporary Titles Worth Reading
Eight publications that cover art in Britain and beyond, from a monthly founded in 1903 to a magazine launched with a butterfly painting on the front.
- Political magazines
Politics Magazines in Britain: The Best UK Political Titles Compared and Explained
Weeklies, monthlies and quarterlies on the British political spectrum, with founding dates, owners and the arguments that surround them.
- Magazine history
National Geographic Magazine History: The First Issue, the Covers and the Yellow Border
From a members' journal printed for a few hundred scientists to a title with local editions around the world, and the covers that marked each change.
- Newspaper magazines
The New York Times Magazine: Its History, Columns and Crossword
A supplement that began in 1896 with the first photographs the paper ever printed, and became the place where the Sunday Times puts its longest writing and its hardest puzzle.
- Science publishing
Science journals: where they came from and how to read one
A short history of the journals that decide what counts as published science, and what to look for when you pick one up.
- Cover history
Famous magazine covers and what made each of them work
Some covers are remembered for the picture, some for the day they came out, and one for what the printer did to the ink.
- Starting a magazine
Publishing your own magazine in the UK: ISSN, law and printing
The first issue is the easy part. What follows is the order in which the practical questions arrive, and the ones people leave too late.