(Currently unknown if ever produced)

Save as PDFOverview A summary of the history of the Kelvinside Literary Association is available on our sister website, Glasgow’s Literary Bonds (see ‘Additional Notes’ below). In 1873, at the annual social meeting of this association, the President of the society Read More …

(Magazine Evening: Magazine Later Bound)

Save as PDFOverview A summary of the history of the Renwick Free Church Literary Association is available on our sister website, Glasgow’s Literary Bonds (see ‘Additional Notes’ below). At the first formative meeting of this group in October 1889, a proposal was Read More …

(Magazine Evening)

Save as PDFOverview The first ‘Annual Report of the Committee of the Airdrie Young Men’s Christian Association’ (in manuscript) provides a brief history of the group’s inaugural year from it’s founding in February 1872 until January 1873. The association was Read More …

(Magazine Evening)

Save as PDFOverview A summary of the history of the Govan Parish Young Men’s Association is available on our sister website, Glasgow’s Literary Bonds (see ‘Additional Notes’ below). This association held its first ‘Manuscript Magazine Evening’ on 6 December 1892. These meetings Read More …

(Title currently unknown: ‘MS scrapbook of verse’)

Save as PDFOverview A summary of the history of the Original Union Club is available on our sister website, Glasgow’s Literary Bonds (see ‘Additional Notes’ below). According to a newspaper clipping, this group was more of a social drinking club whose members Read More …

(Title currently unknown)

Save as PDFOverview A summary of the history of the Western Scientific Association is available on our sister website, Glasgow’s Literary Bonds (see ‘Additional Notes’ below). The members of this all-male group wrote down the papers that they gave at the meetings Read More …

(Title currently unknown)

Save as PDFOverview Name of Club, Society or Group That Produced the Magazine Longsight Wesleyan Mutual Improvement Society (Manchester) Date of Existence 1880-1904 Date of Magazine 1892-1893? Number of Issues (at least 1; no longer extant) Manuscript/Published Magazine (Manuscript?) Contents Read More …

(Title currently unknown)

Save as PDFOverview Name of Club, Society or Group That Produced the Magazine Wesley Proprietary Grammar School/Wesley College Mutual Improvement Society (Sheffield) Date of Existence 1875?-? Date of Magazine 1875 Number of Issues 1 Manuscript/Published Magazine (Manuscript?) Contents and Contributions Read More …

(Title currently unknown)

Save as PDFOverview The evidence for the Jedburgh Mutual Improvement Association and its magazine comes solely from an article in a local newspaper, The Jedburgh Gazette. A further investigation of the local press and archives may provide further information on this Read More …

Aemulus

Save as PDFOverview The mutual improvement group that produced this magazine was based at River Terrace Church (River Terrace was later renamed Colebrooke Row), Islington, London. The church was built in 1834 for its Scottish congregation. The River Terrace Young Read More …

Barony M.S. Magazine

Save as PDFOverview 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 Read More …

Budgett’s Budget

Save as PDFOverview This magazine was created by some members of staff employed by James Budgett and Son Limited. This company began as a wholesale grocer in 1857 in central London, and became a wholesale tea and coffee company in Read More …

Castings Magazine

Save as PDFOverview The literary club that produced this magazine consisted of employees of The Falkirk Iron Company, Ltd. According to company literature, the firm was established in 1815, became a joint stock company in 1819, and only closed in Read More …

Dundee Diagnostic Society’s Volume for 1846

Save as PDFOverview Unusually, The Dundee Diagnostic Society’s Volume for 1846 was published in the ‘traditional’ manner, printed specially for the society by McCosh, Park & Dewars. The content is partially highlights from the society’s MS magazine, and partially pieces Read More …

Dundee Literary and Scientific Institute Magazine

Save as PDFOverview George Tawse, one of the founding Literary and Scientific Institute members, wrote a light-hearted and affectionate recollection of the society’s early days in 1846, in which he depicted its humble beginnings as eight or ten “mere lads”, Read More …

Edinburgh Collegiate Magazine

Save as PDFOverview 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 Read More …

Friends’ Hall Literary Society MSS Magazine

Save as PDFOverview The society that produced this magazine had its origins in the adult school classes run by Quakers held at Friends’ Hall, located on Barnet Grove in Bethnal Green in the East End of London. Amongst the fairly Read More …

Gems of Poesy

Save as PDFOverview Gems of Poesy is an MS magazine compiled by William Gardiner, who also compiled The Wreath of Wild Flowers. The two magazines had identical publication schedules and readers’ lists, so probably served as companion volumes. Each issue Read More …

GENII, A Monthly Circulating Magazine

Save as PDFOverview This literary group was a bit unusual in that the members formed solely for the purpose of producing a magazine of original works. While they referred to their group as an ‘Association’ and collected subscriptions, it appears Read More …

Hawick Literary Society MS Magazine

Save as PDFOverview There are few details currently known about this society and its magazine. According to an obituary notice for Frank Hogg in The Hawick Express, it may have been the Hawick Literary Society that was referred to as Read More …

Jedburgh Literary Association Manuscript Magazine

Save as PDFOverview The evidence for this society and its magazine comes solely through reports of society meetings published in the local press. An account of the society’s formation was included in the Chairman’s speech at the group’s first social Read More …

Kelvinside Parish Church Literary Society Magazine

Save as PDFOverview A summary of the history of the Kelvinside Parish Church Literary Society is available on our sister website, Glasgow’s Literary Bonds (see ‘Additional Notes’ below). There is only a single extant issue of this society’s (yearly?) magazine, which is Read More …

Kent Road Quarterly

Save as PDFOverview 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 Read More …

La Bouquet

Save as PDFOverview The only surviving manuscript magazine from an all-female society in Dundee. The Editorial Preface pre-empts criticism by giving a very modest account of the work: “However much ladies in general, are disposed to self delusion, we can Read More …

Magazine of Wick Literary Society

Save as PDFOverview Name of Club, Society or Group That Produced the Magazine Wick Literary Society Date of Existence 20 Sept. 1903-11 Oct. 1909 (although one meeting was held in 1922 to decide on the use of the remaining funds) Read More …

Melrose Literary Society M.S. Magazine

Save as PDFOverview In the late nineteenth century, this was a relatively small group with approximately 20-25 members. There are no membership rolls in the early minute books, and only the attendance numbers are given for their meetings, which are Read More …

New Literary Club Magazine

Save as PDFOverview 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 Read More …

Newington Literary Magazine

Save as PDFOverview The young men’s association that founded this magazine met on Friday evenings in the 1860s at least. It is currently unknown if it was connected to the Newington United Presbyterian Church. The church was opened in 1848 Read More …

Odds and Ends

Save as PDFOverview 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 Read More …

Our Literary Album

Save as PDFOverview 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 Read More …

P.L.A.C. Monthly Magazine

Save as PDFOverview 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 Read More …

Papers Contributed to Manuscript Magazine

Save as PDFOverview A summary of the history of the Glasgow Sutherlandshire Association is available on our sister website, Glasgow’s Literary Bonds (see ‘Additional Notes’ below). According to the preface in this printed magazine, the contributions to the issue were originally read Read More …

Park Manuscript Magazine

Save as PDFOverview Name of Club, Society or Group That Produced the Magazine Park Literary Society and Park Young Men’s Association (in association with Park Congregational/United Reformed Church) (Halifax) Date of Existence 1874?-? Date of Magazine 1874 Number of Issues Read More …

Queen Margaret College Reading Union Year Book

Save as PDFOverview A summary of the history of the Queen Margaret College Reading Union is available on our sister website, Glasgow’s Literary Bonds (see ‘Additional Notes’ below). Name of Club, Society or Group That Produced the Magazine Queen Margaret College Reading Union Read More …

Saltcoats Literary Society Magazine

Save as PDFOverview The records for the Saltcoats Literary and Debating Society are housed in Ayrshire Archives Headquarters, Ayr. They include the minutes from 1897 until 1982, along with lists of members, syllabi, cash books, correspondence and newspaper articles for Read More …

Sandyford Literary Association MS Magazine

Save as PDFOverview A summary of the history of the Sandyford Church Literary Association is available on our sister website, Glasgow’s Literary Bonds (see ‘Additional Notes’ below). This was a first attempt at a magazine from this association, and either it was not Read More …

St Mary’s Manuscript Magazine

Save as PDFOverview Name of Club, Society or Group That Produced the Magazine St Mary’s Kirk Session (Literary Association) (Edinburgh) Date of Existence 1886?-? Date of Magazine No. 2 (1886?), No. 3, Jun./Jul. 1886; No. 6, Feb. 1887 Number of Read More …

St Thomas’ Institute Magazine

Save as PDFOverview Name of Club, Society or Group That Produced the Magazine St Thomas Institute, Stepney (London) Date of Existence 1875-1881? Date of Magazine 1876-1881 Number of Issues 22 Manuscript/Published Magazine Manuscript Contents and Contributions   Repository Hackney Archives Read More …

The Athenaeum: An Original Literary Miscellany

Save as PDFOverview Like The College Stethescope, this magazine was founded by and for the students of the University of Glasgow (see ‘Additional Notes’ below). In the ‘Preface’, the purpose of the magazine was set out: ‘Our aim has been to Read More …

The Attic Journal

Save as PDFOverview The Attic Journal, launched in 1848, while not explicitly affiliated with a particular society, was edited by Peter Begg, who was also a member of other literary societies in Dundee. Its readers included John Sime and two Read More …

The College News, A Quarterly Magazine

Save as PDFOverview This magazine was founded by Frances Martin, an influential foundress of the College for Working Women (Queen Square, Bloomsbury) which was to take Martin’s name following her death. (For more information about the College for Working Women Read More …

The College Stethescope and Literary Index

Save as PDFOverview Like The Athenaeum, this magazine was founded by and for the students of the University of Glasgow (see ‘Additional Notes’ below). The idea to start a periodical was raised at a student meeting presumably in late 1827.  Read More …

The Dragon

Save as PDFOverview Name of Club, Society or Group That Produced the Magazine (Currently unknown) (Dumfries) Date of Existence 1872?-1883? Date of Magazine June 1872, July 1872, Sept. 1872, Dec. 1872, Feb. 1873, June 1873, Sept. 1873, Apr. 1883 Number Read More …

The Dundee Literary Society’s Magazine

Save as PDFOverview Dundee Literary Society’s decision to launch a magazine in December 1846 was mainly focused on extending the reach of its influence, meaning that those who could not attend meetings because of time or location could share in Read More …

The Effort

Save as PDFOverview Name of Club, Society or Group That Produced the Magazine United Presbyterian Church Sabbath School (MSS mag of the teachers of the Church Sabbath School, Mar. 1855-Apr. 1858) Note: later, the name of the MSS mag is Read More …

The Elgin Magazine and Review

Save as PDFOverview Name of Club, Society or Group That Produced the Magazine (Currently unknown) Date of Existence 1851?-? Date of Magazine No. 5, 1851 Number of Issues 1 Manuscript/Published Magazine Manuscript Contents and Contributions   Repository Elgin Public Library Read More …

The Endeavour; The New Endeavour

Save as PDFOverview Name of Club, Society or Group That Produced the Magazine Senior Scholars’ Mutual Improvement Class (Manchester, Chorlton-on-Medlock, Grosvenor Street Church and School) Date of Existence 1890?-1902? Date of Magazine (The Endeavour) 1890-1891 (Nos. 1-6, 8-9, 11-14); 1892-1893 Read More …

The Essayist. A M.S. Magazine

Save as PDFOverview A summary of the history of the Pollokshields Free Church Literary Institute is available on our sister website, Glasgow’s Literary Bonds (see ‘Additional Notes’ below). One 74 page volume (the second) survives of this magazine. The volume is neatly Read More …

The Excelsior Manuscript Magazine

Save as PDFOverview 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 Read More …

The Foundry Boy

Save as PDFOverview 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 Read More …

The Holyrood Magazine

Save as PDFOverview A summary of the history of the Holyrood Literary Society is available on our sister website, Glasgow’s Literary Bonds (see ‘Additional Notes’ below). This magazine has a paper cover (as shown in the accompanying photograph) and has been hand-stitched with Read More …

The Lads’ Own Magazine

Save as PDFOverview A summary of the history of the St. Stephen’s Literary Association is available on our sister website, Glasgow’s Literary Bonds (see ‘Additional Notes’ below). Name of Club, Society or Group That Produced the Magazine St. Stephen’s Literary Association (Glasgow) Date Read More …

The Literary Magazine

Save as PDFOverview A summary of the history of the Literary Debating Society is available on our sister website, Glasgow’s Literary Bonds (see ‘Additional Notes’ below). Whilst becoming more proficient in their rhetorical skills at their meetings, the purpose of starting a Read More …

The Literary Pic-nic and Re-reviewer

Save as PDFOverview Name of Club, Society or Group That Produced the Magazine S.L.I.G.O. (Aberdeen) Date of Existence 1823?-? Date of Magazine No. 1, 1823 Number of Issues 1 Manuscript/Published Magazine Manuscript Contents and Contributions   Repository Aberdeen City Library, Read More …

The Literary Twenty-One Club Magazine

Save as PDFOverview A summary of the history of the New Literary Club (which later became the Literary Twenty-One Club) is available on our sister website, Glasgow’s Literary Bonds (see ‘Additional Notes’ below). There is one (extant) issue of this club’s magazine, which Read More …

The Magnet

Save as PDFOverview Name of Club, Society or Group That Produced the Magazine (Currently unknown; unknown if this is the production of a society, although a ‘society’ is mentioned in an article by the editor entitled ’15 March, 1888′, p. Read More …

The Monthly Instructer

Save as PDFOverview The London Metropolitan Archives suggests that this Sunday school was connected to a Baptist church that was located on Worship Street, City of London. The church itself was running from at least 1791. It was still running in Read More …

The Monthly Magazine and Review

Save as PDFOverview Name of Club, Society or Group That Produced the Magazine (Currently unknown) (Aberdeen) Date of Existence 1823-? Date of Magazine Vol. I, Nos. 1-4, July-Oct. 1823 Number of Issues 4 Manuscript/Published Magazine Manuscript Contents and Contributions   Read More …

The Mutual

Save as PDFOverview Name of Club, Society or Group That Produced the Magazine St Mary’s Mutual Improvement Society and St Michael’s Literary Society, Hulme (Manchester) Date of Existence 1874?-1875? Date of Magazine 1874-1875 Number of Issues at least 1 (no Read More …

The Newingtonian

Save as PDFOverview Name of Club, Society or Group That Produced the Magazine Young Men’s Association in connection with Newington United Presbyterian Church (Note: see Newington Literary Society; currently unclear if this is the same assoc.) (Edinburgh) Date of Existence Read More …

The North British Railway Literary Society Magazine

Save as PDFOverview Name of Club, Society or Group That Produced the Magazine North British Railway Literary Society (Glasgow) Date of Existence 1900?-? Date of Magazine Feb. 1901, Dec. 1901 Number of Issues 2 Manuscript/Published Magazine Type-script (& copied to Read More …

The Overnewton Whisper

Save as PDFOverview 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 Read More …

The Pen and Pencil

Save as PDFOverview Name of Club, Society or Group That Produced the Magazine Pen and Pencil Society (Sheffield) Date of Existence 1867-1908 Date of Magazine 1868-1908 Number of Issues 40 vols. Manuscript/Published Magazine Manuscript Contents and Contributions   Repository Sheffield Read More …

The Scribe: A Manuscript Magazine

Save as PDFOverview (Update May 2018: this volume is currently unavailable for viewing; further details forthcoming) Name of Club, Society or Group That Produced the Magazine (currently unknown) Date of Existence 1884?-1885? Date of Magazine Volume 1, selections 1884-5 Number Read More …

The Sphinx

Save as PDFOverview Name of Club, Society or Group That Produced the Magazine (Currently unknown) (Dumfries) Date of Existence 1891?-1894? Date of Magazine Vol. I, Jan. 1891-Sept. 1891 Number of Issues 9 lithograph issues (with 2 copies in total of Read More …

The Spoutmouth Institution Magazine

Save as PDF 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 Read More …

The Torch

Save as PDFOverview Name of Club, Society or Group That Produced the Magazine Kirkwall Young Men’s Literary Association (later the Kirkwall Young Men’s Literary and Scientific Association?) (Orkney) Date of Existence 1857-29 Mar. 1899 Date of Magazine No. 1-No. 9, Read More …

The Venture

Save as PDFOverview Name of Club, Society or Group That Produced the Magazine Our Own Essay Club (Edinburgh) Date of Existence 1892?-1899? Date of Magazine Vol. 1-Vol. 7, May 1892-Apr. 1899 Number of Issues 7 Manuscript/Published Magazine Manuscript Contents and Read More …

The Weekly Miscellany

Save as PDFOverview 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 Read More …

The Wreathe of Wild Flowers

Save as PDFOverview This magazine is in the handwriting of William Gardiner (1809-1852), aged 25 when the first issue was compiled. Gardiner’s work appears under the pseudonym Sylvanus. All of the contributors appear under classically alluding pseudonyms, including Daphnus, Corydon Read More …

Wellpark F. C. Literary Society M.S. Magazine

Save as PDFOn Overview A summary of the history of the Wellpark Free Church Literary Society is available on our sister website, Glasgow’s Literary Bonds (see ‘Additional Notes’ below). There are three extant issues of this magazine, which together contain an eclectic mixture Read More …

Wesley Guild Manuscript Magazine

Save as PDFOverview Name of Club, Society or Group That Produced the Magazine Wesley Guild (Bainbridge Memorial Methodist Church, Newcastle upon Tyne) Date of Existence 1896-present Dates of Magazine 1904-05 (Vols. 24, 25); 1908-09 (Vols. 28, 29); 1909-1910 (Vol. 30); Read More …

What Think Ye?

Save as PDFOverview Name of Club, Society or Group That Produced the Magazine (Currently unknown) (Hertford) Date of Existence Apr.-May 1911? Date of Magazine April-May 1911? Number of Issues 2 Manuscript/Published Magazine Manuscript Contents and Contributions   Repository Hertfordshire Archives Read More …