British social history: periodicals
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| TITLE | PUBLICATION INFO | SPEC COLL HOLDINGS |
| The Abstainer’s journal | Glasgow: Scottish Temperance League | 1853-1855 |
| Annual report of the Committee of the Society for the Promotion of Permanent and Universal Peace | London: T. Ward | v. 1 (1817); v. 13 (1846) |
| Annual report of the Poor Law Commissioners for England and Wales | London: Poor Law Commission Office | 1836 |
| Annual report of the Royal Humane Society for the recovery of persons apparently dead | London: The society | 1844 |
| Annual report of the Southampton and District Temperance Council | Southampton: Temperance Council | 1899, 1912-1917, 1919-1921, 1923 |
| Annual report of the Worcestershire Vagrants’ Relief Society | Worcestershire: The Society | 1884 |
| Band of Hope record | London: W. Tweedie | v. 3-4 (1863-1864) |
| British workman | London: SW Partridge | 1855-65; 1868, 1871, 1898, 1900 |
| The British workwoman out and at home | London: Hall, Smart, & Allen and Job Cauldwell | no. 1-26 (1863-1865) |
| The Co-operative Wholesale Societies, Limited, England and Scotland: annual | Manchester: Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd.; Glasgow: The Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd. | 1896-1900 |
| The cottage magazine; or Plain Christian’s library | London: Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper | vol. 26-27 (1837-38) |
| Cobbett’s two-penny trash, or, Politics for the poor | London: published by the author | no. 3 (Sept. 1830), v. 1-2 (1831) |
| The Companion to the newspaper (Society for the Diffusion of Political Knowledge) | London: Charles Knight | 1833 |
| Cooper’s journal, or, Unfettered thinker and plain speaker for truth, freedom and progress | London: J. Watson | 1850 (complete) |
| The Corn-law magazine of the London Anti-Corn-Law Society | London: Benjamin Steill | no. 1 (Jan 1834) |
| The English Republic | London: J. Watson | v. 1 (1851) |
| The Englishwoman’s review of social and industrial questions | London: Williams & Norgate | v. 7 (1876) |
| The Family economist | London: Groombridge and sons | v. 1-4 (1848-51) |
| The Family tutor | London: Houlston and Stoneman | v. 2-6 (1851-53) |
| The Fleet Papers | London: John Pavey | v. 2 (1842) |
| The Glasgow mechanics’ magazine and annals of philosophy | Glasgow: W.R. M’Phun | v. 4 (1826) |
| The Good Templars’ watchword | London: The Lodge | 9:415-427, 454-466 (1882); 11:520-532 (1884); 12:585-597 (1885); 13:637-649 (1886) |
| Home words for heart and hearth [St. Simon's Parish Magazine] | London: “Home Words” publishing office | 1875, 1877, 1887 |
| The Labourer | London: Northern Star Office | v. 1-4 (1847-48) |
| Leeds royal bazaar gazette | Leeds: Committee of the Leeds Mechanics Institution and Literary Society | nos. 1-5 (1868) |
| Locomotive engineers and firemen’s monthly journal | London: Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen | Feb.-Dec. 1888 |
| Meliora | London: Partridge & Co. | v. 1-5 (1859-1863), v. 11 (1868) |
| Millenial harbinger and voluntary church advocate | London: William Jones | v. 1-2 (1835-1836) [complete] |
| Monthly visitor | Edinburgh: Scottish “Monthly Visitor” Tract Society | Various issues, Mar. 1863-Sept. 1897 |
| Moral reformer, and protestor against the vices, abuses, and corruptions of the age | London: Sherwood | vol. 1-3 (1831-1833) [complete] |
| The national temperance mirror | London: National Temperance Publication Depot | 1882 |
| The Newgate monthly magazine | London: R. Carlile | v. 1 (1825) |
| The new London mechanics’ register and magazine of science and the useful arts | London: Hunt and Clarke | v. 1 (1825) |
| The Newspaper press directory and advertisers’ guide | London: C. Mitchell | 1847 |
| The Northern Tribune | Newcastle-on-Tyne: J. Barlow; London: Holyoake and Co. | v. 1 (1854) |
| Oddfellows’ magazine | Manchester: G.M. and Board of Directors | v. 6 (1840-41); series 3 v. 1-3 (1858-62) |
| Onward | London: SW Partridge | 1878 |
| The Oracle of reason, or, philosophy vindicated | London: Field, Southwell and co. | v.1-2 (1842-43) |
| Pamphlets for the people | London: Charles Ely | v. 1-2 (1835-36) |
| The Penny mechanic, and the chemist | London: D. A. Doudney | v. 1 (1837) |
| The People | Wortley: Joseph Barker | v. 1-2 (1848-1849) |
| Politics for the people | London: John W. Parker | nos. 1-17 (1848) |
| Reasoner: journal of freethought and positive philosophy | London: Holyoake | v. 7 (1850); v. 10-12 (1851-52) |
| Register and almanac, North of England Temperance League | Newcastle-upon-Tyne: M & MW Lambert | 1850 |
| St. John’s parish magazine | London: Bell and Daldy | 1860-61 |
| The Sabbath School reciter’s magazine … to which is appended, The Slingsby monthly register | Slingsby: the editors | no. 84 (Jan. 1871 |
| The Saturday magazine | London: J. W. Parker | v. 2 (Jan-June 1833); v. 9 no. 289 (1839); v. 12 no. 215-24 (1835); v. 16-17 (1840); v. 25 no. 782-86 (1844) |
| Science lectures for the people | Manchester: John Heywood | 1866-67 |
| The Scottish Christian Herald | Edinburgh: John Johnstone | 1837 |
| The Scottish temperance review | Glasgow: R. Rae | Apr. – July 1849 |
| The Secularist | London: Holyoake | no. 1 (Jan 1856) |
| Selections from the Working Women’s College magazine | London | 1874 |
| The Shepherd, a London weekly periodical illustrating the principles of universal science | London: B.D. Cousins | v. 1-3 (1834-38) |
| Stannary band of hope monthly visitor | England | no. 1-36 (1869-1872) |
| Staunch teetotaler | Preston: Tweedie | 1868 |
| Stephens’ monthly magazine | Manchester: William Willis | 1840 |
| The Sunday school teachers’ magazine and journal of education | London: Richard Davis | v. 11 (1840) |
| The Sword and the trowel | London: Passmore & Alabaster | v. 25 (1889) |
| Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science | London: Longman, Green | 1865,1870-1871,1874 |
| Vegetarian messenger | Manchester: Vegetarian Society | 2nd series v. 1-7 (1861-67) |
| Wesleyan-Methodist magazine | London: T. Cordeux | 1822-24, 1826,1830-32, 1834-46, 1848-55, 1857-58, 1860-64, 1866, 1878 |
| The Wesleyan Sunday-school magazine and journal of education | London: Wesleyan Conference Office | v. 3 (1868) |
| The Working man | London: Cassell, Peter & Galpin | v. 1 (1866) |
| The working man’s friend, and family instructor | London: John Cassell | v. 1, 4, 6 (1850-1851), new series v. 1(1852) |
| The World of fashion and continental feuilletons | London: Mr. Bell | v. 13, 15 (1836, 1838) |
| The Young emancipator, a free thought magazine | London: George Standring | v. 1 nos. 2, 4, 6, 8 (1878-79) |


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