Vintage Magazines

The magazine will probably have all their back issues digitised.

As copyright libraries the British Library, Cambridge and Oxford University libraries will have copies, as will the Edinurgh University Library and Trinity College, Dublin.

This might help

courtauld.ac.uk/study/resources/book-library/collections-services/online-resources/womens-magazine-archive

Do you know the subject matter or title? Sometimes there may be scanned copies on a website somewhere if you google (I managed to track down a Woman's Own interview that way)

Otherwise a library may be able to help if you order in advance or the magazine itself may have an archive

in the UK, not on it, of course. I really must start previewing my posts!

Failing that, the British Library should be able to help.
I can remember watching a documentary piece about their storage facilities and how they have copies, or digital copies, of everything published on the UK.

www.bl.uk/aboutus/quickinfo/facts/index.html

It's always worth having a look on ebay - if you search "womens magazines" and then 1971 there are quite a few on offer. You might just be lucky.

Generally , I would imagine magazines keep one copy of every issue for their archives. I'd ask the magazine in question.

Is there anywhere where magazines are catalogued in the way that newspapers are?

Blimey that's a photographic memory!!