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 …
Publication Producer: Mutual Improvement
MS. Journal [of the Hawick Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Society]
Overview The young men’s mutual improvement society that produced this magazine was in existence from at least 1875, going by the reports of the society meetings published in the local newspaper. A further investigation of the local press and archives Read More …
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 …
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 …
[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 …
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 …
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 …
(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 …
Hackney Literary and Scientific Institution Manuscript Magazine
Overview Name of Club, Society or Group That Produced the Magazine Hackney Literary and Scientific Institution (London) (formerly the Hackney Mutual Improvement Society) (London) Date of Existence 1848-1894? Date of Magazine Jan.-June 1857 (Vol. 2, No. VIII) (first issue possibly 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 …
Our Mutual Friend: A Monthly Magazine of the Various Literary and Mutual Improvement Societies of Warrington, St Helens and the Surrounding District
Overview There are 12 issues of this monthly print magazine dating from June 1887 to May 1888 which were bound together in one volume in 1888. The entire volume is a total of 240 pages with each issue having 20 pages. 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 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 Dickenson Road Magazine of the Rusholme Wesleyan Mutual Improvement Society
Overview Name of Club, Society or Group That Produced the Magazine Rusholme Wesleyan Mutual Improvement Society (Manchester) (discussion of changing to ‘Rusholme Wesleyan Literary Society’ proposed on meeting of 20 Apr. 1895) Date of Existence 2 June 1842-1895? Date of Read More …
The Dufftown Magazine: A Monthly Magazine Published in MS., by the Dufftown Mutual Instruction Society
Overview Name of Club, Society or Group That Produced the Magazine Dufftown Mutual Instruction Society (Elgin) Date of Existence 1859?-? Date of Magazine 1859 Number of Issues 1 (extant) Manuscript/Published Magazine Print (Note: this is a bound, print magazine. However, Read More …
The Echo: Magazine of the Derker Congregational Mutual Improvement Society
Overview Name of Club, Society or Group That Produced the Magazine Derker Congregational Mutual Improvement Society (Oldham, near Manchester) Date of Existence 1886?-1887? Date of Magazine 1886-1887 Number of Issues 1 Manuscript/Published Magazine Manuscript Contents and Contributions Repository Oldham 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 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 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 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 …
The Rural Echo, and Magazine of the North Scotland Mutual Instruction Associations
Overview Name of Club, Society or Group That Produced the Magazine Lentush Club (North of Scotland mutual instruction associations) (Aberdeenshire) Date of Existence 1850?-? Date of Magazine Jan.-June 1850 Number of Issues (at least) 6 (handwritten note at front of Read More …
The St. Paul Street Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Association Magazine
Overview Name of Club, Society or Group That Produced the Magazine St. Paul Street Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Association (Aberdeen) Date of Existence 18 Sept. 1862-? Date of Magazine Vol. I, Nos. 1-6-Vol. II, No. 8, Oct. 1865-Mar. 1866, Nov. 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 …