List of early-20th-century British children's magazines and annuals explained

Numerous magazines and annuals for children were published in Britain from the mid-19th century onward. Many of the magazines produced their own annuals, which sometimes shared the name of the magazine exactly, as Little Folks, or slightly modified, as The Boy's Own Paper and The Girl's Own Paper (first-listed below).

This list includes magazines that started before or finished after the period 1900 to 1949.

• The Boy's Own Paper and Boy's Own Annual (1879–1967)
• The Girl's Own Paper and Girl's Own Annual (1880–1956)
• (1905–07)
• The Magnet (1908–40)
• Schoolgirl's Own Annual (1921–36)
• Greyfriars Holiday Annual (1920s)
• British Girl's Annual (1920s)
• Hulton's Girls' Stories (1920s)
• Mrs Strang's Annual (1919–26)
• Oxford Annual for Girls (1927–39)
• Little Folks (1871–1932)
• The Dandy (1937–)
• The Beano (1938–)
• The Gem (1907–39)
• Girls' Friend (1899–1931)
• Girls' Realm (1890s–1914)
• School Friend (1919–29)^[1]
• Schoolgirl (1929–40)
• Rover (1922–73)
• Hotspur (1933–81)
• Modern Wonder (1930s and early 1940s)
• Wizard (1922–80s)
• The Children's Newspaper (1919–65)
• Every Girl's Magazine (1878–?)
• The Lion Annual (1954–82)

See also

• British comics

Notes and References

1. This is a different magazine from the Amalgamated Press girls' paper of the same name that ran from 1950 to 1965, and then after its incorporation with June, as June and School Friend until 1981.