The Harper’s Bazaar Archive: Widening the range of our digital resources

10 Jan 2025

We are pleased to announce the acquisition of The Harper’s Bazaar Archive.

This is a purchase that simultaneously enhances the University’s existing holdings of one of the world’s most influential fashion and lifestyle titles and also complements recent additions to our general interest magazine holdings, such as Esquire and Vanity Fair.

About the archive

Providing access to over 500,000 pages of content, the archive covers both the US (1867-present, with subsequent issues added on an ongoing basis), and UK (1930-2015) editions, both of which are seamlessly cross-searchable. 

The resource is fully indexed, and content is discoverable to either article level or, in the case of advertisements, by brand or company name.

Harper’s offers a powerful lens into American, British, and international fashion as well as popular culture and society from the mid-nineteenth century. 

Showcasing the work of acclaimed designers, photographers, stylists, writers and illustrators, this wide-ranging resource, presented in the original magazine format not only supports students, researchers, and staff in Fashion, Business and Technology, but also in a range of disciplines across the Humanities, including research groupings such as CIDRAL and the Institute for Cultural Practices.

View the archive

View The Harper’s Bazaar Archive via Library Search or see our Library Subject Guides for American Studies, English Literature and Creative Writing Fashion Business & Technology, Film Studies, History and Sociology.