Lyceum Banner, The.
A Monthly Journal devoted to the Children's Progressive Lyceums throughout the World / A Monthly Journal for Conductors, Leaders and Members of the Children's Progressive Lyceum throughout the World / For Young and Old.
1890--1995? Monthly
Liverpool, then London, then Dewsbury, then Rochdale, then Manchester, England.
Publisher: Progressive Literature Agency.
Editor: J.J. Morse, editor and publisher, assisted by Florence Morse; Alfred Kitson; Annie H. Mills; G.F. Knott.
Corporate author: Spiritualists' Lyceum Union; 1894: British Spiritualists' Lyceum Union; 1904, Lyceum Union under Frank Kitson
1/1, November 1890-1995(?).

16 pp., 1s. 6d.-2s. 6d. a year, twopence a copy (volume discounts for bulk copies to local groups).

This, like its predecessor of the same name in Chicago in the 1860s, was an offshoot of the lyceum education movement of the mid-nineteenth century, as adapted to spiritualism. The spiritualist lyceums functioned essentially as "Sunday schools" for members of the established spiritualist churches and groups, especially children. This journal, proclaiming itself "The only paper in the world devoted to the children of spiritualists," provided regular district and local reports on the doings of the Lyceum Union in Britain and came to carry crosswords and other puzzles and featured "Our Kiddies Corner" for young children. Florence Morse was the daughter of J.J. Morse, on whom see the note under The Spiritual Review. In its later years the journal was a valuable source, in its memorials, for leading figures in the Lyceum Union and spiritualism in Britain generally. LOC; BL; NSAC Lily Dale.

The majority of this run of the Lyceum Banner was generously donated by the Daulby Street Spiritualist Church of Liverpool, England.

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