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 …
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[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 …
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 …
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 …
Manuscript Magazine of the Noetic Society; The Noetic Magazine (New Series)
Overview Name of Club, Society or Group That Produced the Magazine Noetic Society, Edinburgh (Note: unclear if this society also produced the following magazines: Noetic Magazine, Vol. 1, 1855-56 (YAP4 N77/43264); Noetic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1855 (YAP 4 Read More …
Manuscript Book of the Literary and Convivial Association
Overview The Paisley Literary and Convivial Association was a group of about 25 men who met weekly on Saturday nights between 1814 until around 1864 for readings, discussion of pre-selected topics, and to read their original essays and literary compositions 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 …
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 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 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 …
(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 …