Journals, eJournals & online resources

The Library has subscriptions to many periodicals and journals both in print and online which can assist with research into the history of clothing and fashion. We also have some antiquarian fashion publications in our safe collections, as well as bound back issues of all our print periodicals both past and present in the Periodicals collection (Basement) that can serve as primary sources.

Relevant titles include:

Costume : the journal of the Costume Society
The Lady's Magazine
Dress
La belle assemblée, or, Bell's court and fashionable magazine
London Illustrated News
Country Life
Vanity Fair
Picture Post

Theatrical Costume

The Library subscribes to many journals and periodicals, both in print and online, that focus their research on the history of theatre and performance. Titles include:

Early Theatre
Modern Drama
Performing Arts Journal
Renaissance Drama
Theatre Journal
Costume

Other relevant journals and periodicals

The American Art Journal
Apollo
The Art Bulletin
Art history
Art Journal
Crafts
Design Issues
Design Quarterly
Eighteenth - Century Studies
History of Photography
Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies
Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism
Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes
Journal of Victorian Culture
Metropolitan Museum Journal
Modern Art
Modern Drama
MoMA
Oxford Art Journal
Renaissance and Reformation
Studies in the Decorative Arts
Studio
Style
Tate
Textile History
Theatre Journal
Victorian Studies
Visual Arts Research
Visual Culture in Britain
Woman's Art Journal

The Library subscribes to most of the major art magazines and journals including Frieze, The Burlington Magazine, Art Monthly and RA : the Royal Academy Magazine.

Relevant online resources

Oxford Art Online
JSTOR
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Arts: Search
VADS
Times & Sunday Times Digital Archive
International Bibliography of Art
British Newspaper Archive
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Guardian and The Observer