Overview This society was most likely based at the Selkirk West United Free Church in the Scottish Borders. The information that we currently have on its magazine comes solely from an article published in the early twentieth century in a Read More …
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Eastville Free Methodist Mutual Improvement Class Manuscript Magazine
Overview This magazine was produced by a mutual improvement class based at Eastville Free Methodist Church, which was located on Fishponds Road in Eastville (northeast of Bristol). (For a brief history of this church see ‘Eastville Methodist Church (now Pentecostal Read More …
The Excelsior Manuscript Magazine
Overview There are nine extant issues of the manuscript magazine that was produced by this mutual improvement society. The title was taken from the poem, ‘Excelsior’, written in 1841 by the American poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and the poem’s message Read More …
The Spoutmouth Institution Magazine
Overview A summary of the history of the Spoutmouth Bible Institution is available on our sister website, Glasgow’s Literary Bonds (see ‘Additional Notes’ below). There is only one extant issue of this group’s manuscript magazine. It consists of 136 pages with 11 Read More …
Barony M.S. Magazine
Overview A summary of the history of the Barony Mutual Improvement Society is available on our sister website, Glasgow’s Literary Bonds (see ‘Additional Notes’ below). The society was formed in 1863 by young men from the congregation of the Barony Church (Church Read More …
Salem Chapel Mutual Improvement Society Monthly Magazine
Overview The mutual improvement society that produced this monthly magazine was made up of members of the Salem Methodist Church in Baptist Mills (an area in the northeast of Bristol). The church was founded in 1853 and located on Lower Ashley Read More …
Edinburgh Collegiate Magazine
Overview Members of this literary club were enrolled at Edinburgh Collegiate College. Opened in 1868, the College was located at Nos. 27/28, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh. From a photograph of the group in the 1871 magazine, the club was quite small Read More …
Kent Road Quarterly
Overview A summary of the history of the Kent Road United Presbyterian Church Young Men’s Institute is available on our sister website, Glasgow’s Literary Bonds (see ‘Additional Notes’ below). The one extant issue of this magazine is a miscellany comprising 162 pages with Read More …
New Literary Club Magazine
Overview A summary of the history of the New Literary Club is available on our sister website, Glasgow’s Literary Bonds (see ‘Additional Notes’ below). The first issue of this magazine was produced in January 1893, four months after the club was founded. According 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 …
P.L.A.C. Monthly Magazine
Overview A summary of the history of the Pollokshields Literary and Art Circle is available on our sister website, Glasgow’s Literary Bonds (see ‘Additional Notes’ below). Only one issue of this society magazine, 106 pages long, has been located, though as earlier January Read More …
The Albion Literary Journal: A Quarterly Magazine of Instructive and Recreative Literature
Overview A summary of the history of the Albion Mutual Improvement Union is available on our sister website, Glasgow’s Literary Bonds (see ‘Additional Notes’ below). There are three extant issues of this quarterly manuscript magazine which are bound individually. This is a relatively slim Read More …
The Foundry Boy
Overview A summary of the history of the Glasgow Foundry Boys’ Religious Society, Wellington Palace Branch is available on our sister website, Glasgow’s Literary Bonds (see ‘Additional Notes’ below). This magazine is printed in double columns and laid out in newspaper format. It Read More …
The Literary Bond of Free Anderston Church Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Society (later The Literary Magazine)
Overview A summary of the history of the Free Anderston Church Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Society is available on our sister website, Glasgow’s Literary Bonds (see ‘Additional Notes’ below). This society appears to have had a dynamic group of members that contributed to Read More …
The Weekly Miscellany
Overview According to the ‘Preface’ of the 1849 volume, The Society for Mutual Improvement was formed in 1846. Since that time, it had admitted 48 men (see below) and had 108 essays delivered at its meetings. The society had its Read More …