(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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

(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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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 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 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 …

(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 …

(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 …