Overview Name of Club, Society or Group That Produced the Magazine St. Paul’s Mutual Improvement Society (Bennett Street Sunday School, Manchester) (by 1875, became the Literary and Educational Society) Date of Existence Oct. 1843-1962 Date of Magazine 1855-1962 (issued annually) Read More …
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Our Literary Album
Overview The one (extant?) issue of this magazine currently housed in Argyll and Bute Archives is a photocopy of the original manuscript. The ‘Order of Circulation’ at the front of the issue lists 36 male members. From the ‘Introductory remarks Read More …
Our Magazine. L.Y.M.C.A. A Monthly Journal of Literature & Art
Overview A summary of the history of the Lansdowne Young Men’s Christian Association (aka L.Y.M.C.A.) is available on our sister website, Glasgow’s Literary Bonds (see ‘Additional Notes’ below). According to the editorial in the first issue produced in November 1890, the idea to Read More …
Our Mutual Friend: A Monthly Magazine of the Various Literary and Mutual Improvement Societies of Warrington, St Helens and the Surrounding District
Overview There are 12 issues of this monthly print magazine dating from June 1887 to May 1888 which were bound together in one volume in 1888. The entire volume is a total of 240 pages with each issue having 20 pages. Read More …
The Overnewton Whisper
Overview A summary of the history of the Overnewton Literary Club is available on our sister website, Glasgow’s Literary Bonds (see ‘Additional Notes’ below). This society’s magazine (as it was called by its contributors) is unusually presented on single sheets, with articles on Read More …