| Description | Femorabilia is a wide ranging collection of comics and magazines aimed at girls and women within our Special Collections. The collection is predominantly 1950s-1990s, but dates from the 1850s until the 2000s, charting the development of the feminine reading career, from adventure stories, to teen life, domesticity, and adult life.
Titles from our collection of comics and magazines include: Bunty; Debbie; Diana; Emma; Everybody's Magazine; Everywoman Magazine; Fabulous Magazine; Line Magazine; Film Weekly; Girls' Crystal; Honey; Illustrated; Jackie; Jud; Judy and Tracy; Jinty; June; June and School Frind; School Friend; Girl; Just Seventeen; Leader; The Lady's Newspaper; The Queen; Look Now; Lucky Charm; Mandy; M & J Magazine; Marilyn; Marty; Mates; Mirabelle; Misty; My Guy; My Home; Nikki; Over 21; Practical Householder; Picturegoer; Picture Show; Picture Show and Film Pictorial; Picture Show Library; Poppet; Princess; Rainbow; Robin; Romeo; Roxy; Spare Rib; Tammy; Tracy; Twinkle; Woman; Woman's Day; The War Illustrated; Woman's Journal; Woman's Mirror; Woman's Own Magazine; Woman's Pictorial; Woman's Realm; 19; The Rover; The Hornet; The Hotspur; Adventure; Victor and Champ; The Crunch; The Lone Ranger; Buddy; The Wizard; Scoop; Spellbound; Photo-Love; Blue Jeans; Couture; Annabelle; L'Art et la mode; The Lady; Charm School; Look-in; Girl! Girl! Girl!; The Boys and Girls Cinema Club; Boyfriend; Beryl the Peril; Schoolgirls' Own; Daily Mirror; Girls Fun; The Girl's Own Paper; Pink; Radio Luxembourg; Radio Caroline; Sandie; Sindy; Teenbeat; Tina; Top Girl; The World of Girls' Comics; Tony Blackburn Special; Shiver and Shake; Whizzer and Chips; Little Star; Movie Review; The Film Show; The Book of Blue Peter; Adventure for Girls; Butterfly; Cherie; Cosmopolitan; Film Fashion World; Valentine; Go Girl; Blue Rosette Romances; Silver Moon Romances; Star Love Stories; TV Tornado; Woman's Weekly; Family Star; Red Star; Serenade; She; Weekend; Playhour; Woman and Home; Jem; Led Jardin des Modes; Hair; Bonnie; Buttons; Photo secret love; Film Review; OK; Oh Boy!; Annabel; Melanie; Patches; Target; Penny; This is England; True Romances; Good Housekeeping; Housewife; Homes and Gardens; Screen Pictorial; Red Letter; Good Taste; Woman's Companion; The New Bond; Kine Matograph Weekly Magazine; Red Star Weekly; A Film Review; Penny Comics of the Thirties; Pilot Papers; Caesar and Cleopatra; Modern Woman and Modern Home; Wife and Home; The Gem; Woman's Outlook; Marie France; Home Chat; House Beautiful; The Miracle; Glamour; Home; Picture Romance Library; Woman's Illustrated; Home Notes; Woman's Friend and Glamour; Weldon's Ladies Journal; Heiress; Amateur Photographer; Woman's World Library; John Bull; Woman at Home & Girls Realm; My Magazine; Every Week; Horner's Stories; Current Literature; Little Folks; The Smart Set; Books of today; Sunny; Girl Talk; Teen Vogue; Seventeen; Pony; The People's Friend; Maxi Posters; Peg's Paper; The Crackerjack Girls' Own Book; The Shilling Library; and Miscellaneous Books. |
| AdminHistory | Please see the series level record for each individual magazine for their respective administrative histories. |
| CustodialHistory | The majority of this collection was donated to LJMU Special Collections & Archives in 2014, with significant contributions made by the late Nickianne Moody, former Head of Media and Cultural Studies at LJMU, Dr Mel Gibson of Northumbria University, and Dr Jo Knowles of LJMU's Media, Culture, and Communication programme with the specific purpose of preserving 'ephemera' associated with women and girls' history and material studies which was otherwise at risk of significant loss due to lack of collecting value. The ongoing annual lecture series on Femorabilia has been named the Nickianne Moody Memorial Lecture Series in recognition of the contributions made by the late Nickianne Moody. |