Selection Criteria
The material included in Girlhood: Magazines and Print Culture has been selected in close collaboration with academic subject experts, collections specialists at participating libraries and archives, and under the guidance of the Editorial Board. To support the expansion of scholarly interests in the experiences and culture of girls and girlhood across the twentieth century, this resource brings together print publications across genres and regions, to provide invaluable insight into girlhood.
The resource includes highly graphic and illustrative annuals, comics, magazines, periodicals and zines for the study of print culture made for young and teenage girls through the twentieth century in the UK, Australia and US. The resource brings together historically important publications to girls and young women to provide new opportunities for interdisciplinary research into the social and cultural history of girls as they became a more defined group and targeted consumer of print material across the twentieth century. The scope of this resource was determined in response to market needs and expert academic feedback.
Full runs of titles within this resource’s date range (c. 1920s to 1990s) have been digitised and published where available and any missing issues are largely due to them not being extant in the source archive.
For more information on the periodicals selected from each archive, visit the Guide to the Archival Collections and to read more about the issues included of each publication, visit the Periodical Profiles.
A Note on Exclusions
Where exclusions have been made, this is largely due to:
- Copyright and permission considerations
- Collections falling outside the defined remit of this resource of roughly the 1920s to the 1990s
- Existing online resources of periodicals from this time period
- Incomplete runs of material from within participating institutions' holdings.
The material included in Girlhood: Magazines and Print Culture has been selected in close collaboration with academic subject experts, collections specialists at participating libraries and archives, and under the guidance of the Editorial Board. To support the expansion of scholarly interests in the experiences and culture of girls and girlhood across the twentieth century, this resource brings together print publications across genres and regions, to provide invaluable insight into girlhood.
The resource includes highly graphic and illustrative annuals, comics, magazines, periodicals and zines for the study of print culture made for young and teenage girls through the twentieth century in the UK, Australia and US. The resource brings together historically important publications to girls and young women to provide new opportunities for interdisciplinary research into the social and cultural history of girls as they became a more defined group and targeted consumer of print material across the twentieth century. The scope of this resource was determined in response to market needs and expert academic feedback.
Full runs of titles within this resource’s date range (c. 1920s to 1990s) have been digitised and published where available and any missing issues are largely due to them not being extant in the source archive.
For more information on the periodicals selected from each archive, visit the Guide to the Archival Collections and to read more about the issues included of each publication, visit the Periodical Profiles.
A Note on Exclusions
Where exclusions have been made, this is largely due to:
- Copyright and permission considerations
- Collections falling outside the defined remit of this resource of roughly the 1920s to the 1990s
- Existing online resources of periodicals from this time period
- Incomplete runs of material from within participating institutions' holdings.