(Currently unknown if ever produced)

Overview 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 mentioned that Read More …

(Magazine Evening: Magazine Later Bound)

Overview 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 made to Read More …

(Magazine Evening)

Overview 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 nonsectarian and Read More …

(Magazine Evening)

Overview 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 took place Read More …

(Title currently unknown)

Overview 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 into a Read More …

(Title currently unknown)

Overview 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 and Contributions Read More …

(Title currently unknown)

Overview 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   Repository Read More …

(Title currently unknown)

Overview 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 group. According Read More …

Aemulus

Overview 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 Men’s Association 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 …

Budgett’s Budget

Overview 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 1875. In Read More …

Castings Magazine

Overview 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 1981. Some Read More …

Dundee Diagnostic Society’s Volume for 1846

Overview 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 specially composed Read More …

Dundee Literary and Scientific Institute Magazine

Overview 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”, meeting on 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 …

Friends’ Hall Literary Society MSS Magazine

Overview 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 complete set Read More …

Gems of Poesy

Overview 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 is numbered Read More …

GENII, A Monthly Circulating Magazine

Overview 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 that they Read More …

Hawick Literary Society MS Magazine

Overview 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 the ‘young Read More …

Jedburgh Literary Association Manuscript Magazine

Overview 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 meeting held Read More …

Kelvinside Parish Church Literary Society Magazine

Overview 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 bound with 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 …

La Bouquet

Overview 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 not imagine Read More …

Magazine of Wick Literary Society

Overview 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) Date of Read More …

Melrose Literary Society M.S. Magazine

Overview 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 usually somewhere 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 …

Newington Literary Magazine

Overview 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 and located Read More …

Odds and Ends

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 …

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 …

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 …

Papers Contributed to Manuscript Magazine

Overview 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 at an Read More …

Park Manuscript Magazine

Overview 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 1 Manuscript/Published Read More …

Queen Margaret College Reading Union Year Book

Overview 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 (Glasgow) Date Read More …

Saltcoats Literary Society Magazine

Overview 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 various years. Read More …

Sandyford Literary Association MS Magazine

Overview 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 a success Read More …

St Mary’s Manuscript Magazine

Overview 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 Issues 3 Read More …

St Thomas’ Institute Magazine

Overview 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 Department Reference Read More …

The Athenaeum: An Original Literary Miscellany

Overview 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 relieve the Read More …

The Attic Journal

Overview 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 members of Read More …

The College News, A Quarterly Magazine

Overview 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 — later Read More …

The College Stethescope and Literary Index

Overview 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.  There are Read More …

The Dragon

Overview 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 of Issues Read More …

The Dundee Literary Society’s Magazine

Overview 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 some of Read More …

The Effort

Overview 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 adopted by Read More …

The Elgin Magazine and Review

Overview 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 Reference L Read More …

The Endeavour; The New Endeavour

Overview 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 (Nos. 15-24); Read More …

The Essayist. A M.S. Magazine

Overview 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 written in 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 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 Holyrood Magazine

Overview 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 blue ribbon, Read More …

The Lads’ Own Magazine

Overview 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 of Existence Read More …

The Literary Magazine

Overview 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 society magazine Read More …

The Literary Pic-nic and Re-reviewer

Overview 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, Central Library Read More …

The Literary Twenty-One Club Magazine

Overview 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 clearly carries Read More …

The Magnet

Overview 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. 19, March Read More …

The Monthly Instructer

Overview 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 the 1870s, Read More …

The Monthly Magazine and Review

Overview 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   Repository Aberdeen Read More …

The Mutual

Overview 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 longer extant) Read More …

The Newingtonian

Overview 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 1887?-1888? Date Read More …

The North British Railway Literary Society Magazine

Overview 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 distribute?) Contents 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 …

The Pen and Pencil

Overview 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 Archives Reference Read More …

The Scribe: A Manuscript Magazine

Overview (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 of Issues Read More …

The Sphinx

Overview 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 Sept. 1891 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 …

The Torch

Overview 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, Mar. 1875-Nov. Read More …

The Venture

Overview 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 Contributions   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 …

The Wreathe of Wild Flowers

Overview 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 and Damon, Read More …

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

On 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 of prose Read More …

Wesley Guild Manuscript Magazine

Overview 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); 1910-11 (Vol. Read More …

What Think Ye?

Overview 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 and Local Read More …