List of 18th-century British periodicals

This list of 18th-century British periodicals excludes daily newspapers.

• The Spectator (1711), (1711–1714) daily 1711–1712, founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, in 1714 three times a week for six months, but collected in book form it remained hugely popular for the rest of the century.
• Vetusta Monumenta (1718–1906) Illustrated antiquarian papers at intermittent intervals, published by the Society of Antiquaries of London.
• The Gentleman's Magazine (1731–1907). Monthly.
• The London Magazine (1732–1785)
• Lloyd's List (1734–). Weekly, then semi-weekly.
• The Scots Magazine (1739–1826).
• Universal Magazine (1747–). Founded by Percival Stockdale.
• The Monthly Review (1749–1845). Monthly. Founded by Ralph Griffiths and Robert Dodsley. Oliver Goldsmith was a contributor.
• The Rambler (1750–1752). Twice weekly.
• The Connoisseur (1754–1756). Weekly.
• The Critical Review (1756–1817)
• The Annual Register (1758–). Annually.
• The Bee (1759–)
• Exeter Mercury or West Country Advertiser, later Trewman's Exeter Flying Post (1763–1917)
• The Gospel Magazine (1766–)
• Theological Repository (1769–1771, 1784, 1786, 1788)
• Town and Country Magazine (1769–)
• Lady's Magazine (1770–1837). Monthly.
• The Building Magazine (1774–78)
• Wesleyan Methodist Magazine (1778–1969). Monthly
• The Arminian Magazine (1778–1913)
• The European Magazine, and London Review (1782–1826). Founded by James Perry; later edited by Isaac Reed.
• A New Review (1782–1786). Edited by Paul Henry Maty.
• Annals of Agriculture (1784–1815). Started by Arthur Young.
• The New Town & Country Magazine (1787–89)
• The Analytical Review (1788–1799)
• The Botanical Magazine, subsequently Curtis's Botanical Magazine (1787–)
• The Observer (1791–). Weekly.
• The Sporting Magazine. (1792–). Monthly.
• British Critic. Quarterly (1793–)
• Anthologia hibernica (1793–94). Published in Dublin.
• The Tribune (1795–96). Edited by John Thelwall
• The Aberdeen Magazine, Or, Universal Repository. (1796–98)
• The Monthly Magazine (1796–). Founded by Sir Richard Phillips, edited by John Aikin
• The Watchman (1796). Founded and edited by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• The Anti-Jacobin, or, Weekly Examiner (1797–98)
• The Anti-Jacobin Review (1798–1821)
• The Philosophical Magazine (1798–)
• The Asiatic annual register (1799–1811)

See also

• List of nineteenth-century British periodicals
• List of eighteenth century journals