The Windsor Magazine


The Windsor Magazine was a monthly illustrated publication produced by Ward Lock & Co from January 1895 to September 1939.
The title page described it as "An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women".
It was bound as six-monthly volumes, with the exception of Volume IV and the final volume, LXXXX.

Cover designs

Until June 1917 the monthly magazine had a standard cover design, showing the title as "The Windsor Magazine", a sketch of Windsor Castle, and the volume number, month, and issue number in a panel at the foot. The December issues had this layout in colour, while the other months were on green paper with the magazine's name in a red block.
Possibly in connection with the Royal family's decision to become the House of Windsor in July 1917, that month the magazine had a make-over, and the new covers dispensed with the sketch of Windsor Castle and the word "Magazine" and instead proclaimed it as "The July Windsor", with the issue and volume number shown below, and a different cover painting, usually featuring a young woman, each month. Subsequently the issue and volume number disappeared from the front page, and while the issue number, month and year continued to appear on the spine, the volume number was no longer quoted externally. Latterly the subject of the cover paintings became more varied, while in the mid-1930s the word "Magazine" re-appeared on the front cover for a number of issues before again being dropped.

Editors

Writers for the magazine included the following:
Artists whose illustrations were published in the magazine included the following:
Volumes continued to run from December to May and June to November thereafter, except for the final volume, 90 which covered the last four issues, from June to September 1939.
On 13 September 1939 The Times carried a news article stating "The proprietors and publishers of the Windsor Magazine announce that in the present difficult circumstances it has been decided to suspend publication as from the September number, just issued." Publication was never resumed.