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 …
Publication Producer: Church
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 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 …
[Manuscript magazine of the Renfield Free Church Young Men’s Society]
Overview A summary of the history of the Renfield Free Church Young Men’s Society is available on our sister website, Glasgow’s Literary Bonds (see ‘Additional Notes’ below). At a meeting of this society held on 28 April 1868, it is recorded that Read More …
Abbey Foregate Congregational Church Literary Society’s Magazine
Overview According to the opening article in the first issue of this magazine, the Abbey Foregate Congregational Church Literary Society was founded in 1893. Meetings were held weekly, and it was quite a large society of predominantly young men and 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 …
Blythswood Holm M.S. Magazine, ‘Behind the Scenes’, A special New Year’s Number; later Free St Peter’s Literary Society Magazine
Overview A summary of the history of the Free St. Peter’s Young Men’s Association is available on our sister website, Glasgow’s Literary Bonds (see ‘Additional Notes’ below). The earlier manuscript magazine dates from January 1871, and is a bit smaller than other Read More …
Bridge Street United Presbyterian Literary Society’s Magazine
Overview Members of this literary society were part of the congregation of Bridge Street United Presbyterian Church, located in Musselburgh, East Lothian, to the east of Edinburgh. (For a brief history of the church, see the National Records of Scotland Read More …
The Magazine, conducted by the Calton Wesleyan-Methodist Congregational Young Men’s Society
Overview A summary of the history of the Calton Wesleyan-Methodist Congregational Young Men’s Society is available on our sister website, Glasgow’s Literary Bonds (see ‘Additional Notes’ below). There are fifteen issues of this monthly magazine bound into one hard-cover volume. This includes the Supplement Read More …
Crescent Chapel Literary and Debating Society Magazine
Overview The only information we currently have on the Crescent Literary and Debating Society comes from the magazine it produced. Members were most likely part of the congregation of the Crescent Congregational Church, which was located on Everton Brow in 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 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 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 Highbury Magazine (1901-1911), later The Park Church Literary Magazine (1929-1937)
Overview This society was based at Park Church, located on Grosvenor Lane, Highbury, London, which was a Scottish Presbyterian church. It had a thriving middle-class congregation, and several active clubs and societies attached to it, including this young men’s literary association. 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 Manuscript Magazine of the Church of God at the Meeting House St John’s Square, London
Overview The Freethinking Christians formed in 1799, or possibly in 1801, after having broken off from a Universalist Baptist congregation in Parliament Court Chapel, located in Bishopsgate Street, City of London (Hannah Adams (1755-1831), in her Dictionary of All Religions 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 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 Queen’s Park Literary Magazine (aka The Queen’s Park Magazine)
Overview A summary of the history of the Queen’s Park, St. George’s United Presbyterian, UK Church Literary Institute is available on our sister website, Glasgow’s Literary Bonds (see ‘Additional Notes’ below). There are three extant volumes of this society’s magazine. The first two 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 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 …
(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 …
St. Stephen’s Literary Society’s Magazine; also St. Stephen’s Young Men’s Guild, Magazine of Literary Section
Overview St Stephen’s Church is located at 105 St Stephen Street in Edinburgh. (For further details about this church, see the article, ‘Saint Stephen’s Stockbridge‘, on the Edinburgh-Stockbridge.com website.) The information that we currently have on this group comes from Read More …
(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 …
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 …