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The British Trade Journal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 23, 2022
Entity authorityQ29026039 ↗
Source-derived summary

The British Trade Journal was a commercial journal founded in 1863 as Morgans' British Trade Journal, and Export Price Current. It became The British Trade Journal in 1870 and changed its name to the British Trade Journal and Export World in 1929. It ceased publication in December 1967.

The journal was concerned with all aspects of import and export, tariffs and trade policy. It reviewed books and products and its columns provided material for humorous pieces in the Pall Mall Gazette, Punch and other journals. It described the latest scientific discoveries and its advertising provided engravings of the latest manufactured goods which reviewers found useful.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “The British Trade Journal” is open-knowledge reference entry. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through British, Trade and Journal, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1863, 1870, 1929, 1967—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1863. For this dossier, British, Trade and Journal is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “The British Trade Journal” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.