BBC Magazine Collection

The BBC Magazine Collection offers subscribers unlimited access to several leading magazines.

Subscriptions to the collection will provide users with extensive fully-searchable back issues, and new issues routinely. Every edition features striking images and articles written by world-class reporters. These magazines are suitable for all levels of academic study and are perfect for both classroom teaching and independent home study.

This collection includes 1,098 issues and counting.

BBC Countryfile Magazine

Archived since April 2023

Modern Archive

BBC Countryfile Magazine is your essential guide to the British countryside.

BBC History Magazine (inc. BBC World Histories and BBC History Revealed)

Archived since September 2010

Modern Archive

Established in 2000, BBC History Magazine is the UK’s bestselling history magazine. Contributors to the magazine include some of the world’s leading academic and popular historians, among them the likes of Antony Beevor, Mary Beard, Ian Kershaw, Michael Wood and Margaret MacMillan.

BBC Music Magazine

Archived since November 2012

Modern Archive

BBC Music Magazine is the world’s best-selling and most respected classical music magazine. Each issue contains the latest news from across the classical music world, interviews with internationally renowned artists and features on all manner of subjects, from piano legends to the art of listening.

BBC Science Focus Magazine

Archived since September 2010

Modern Archive

BBC Science Focus is the UK’s best selling science and technology monthly with a large international audience. Attracting contributions from leading academics and popular scientists alike, BBC Science Focus offers intelligent and accessible content covering all aspects of the world of science.

BBC Sky at Night Magazine

Archived since September 2010

Modern Archive

BBC Sky at Night Magazine provides a hands-on guide to astronomy. With articles from the world’s leading astronomers and writers, the magazine features insightful comment and analysis of the latest discoveries in astrophysics, cosmology and planetary science.

BBC Wildlife Magazine

Archived since September 2010

Modern Archive

BBC Wildlife Magazine is the UK’s bestselling natural history magazine. The magazine has close ties to the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol and makes use of knowledge provided by academic experts in universities around the country, as well as naturalists, biologists and ornithologists working for conservation and research organisations at home and abroad.