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Along with The Community's Journal and The Spiritual Herald, one of the trifecta of important early English Spiritualist newspaper.
From Pat Deveney's database:
Yorkshire Spiritual Telegraph and British Harmonial Advocate, The. David Wilkerson Weatherhead (d. 1875) was a wealthy industrialist from Keighley in the Midlands. He was a leading provincial "secularist" of the time and when he was converted from "secularism" to spiritualism he promptly went out and bought a printing press and font of type and dragooned one of his workers (Benjamin Morrell, one of his shopmen) and his two daughters into printing the journals, rather ungraciously adding to each issue "D.W. Weatherhead, Printer, Keighley." He continued the enterprise at his own expense until The Spiritual Magazine appeared in 1860 and he abandoned the struggle. Extensive reports on seances with notable spirits (Swedenborg, Martin Luther, Robert Burns), correspondence with many who were or who would become well-known (Robert Owen), instructions on forming circles, reports of mediums, notably P.B. Randolph and D.D. Home, and of developments in the new movement ("Shaking Hands with a Spirit," etc.). Unlike most other British journals, this is largely a working-class effort. Oppenheim sees in the journal the influence of Robert Owen on the development of provincial spiritualism, and Robert A. Gilbert emphasizes the partisan New Church emphasis of the journal derived from its Swedenborgian editor John Garnet. Gilbert, "Magus Incognito." In its first year the journal claimed to have a circulation of 2,000 throughout the British Isles. |
| LOC; Yale University; ZDB: Freiburg Inst Grenzgeb Psychol. | |
| Yorkshire Spiritual Telegraph V1 Index 1855-56 | |
| Yorkshire Spiritual Telegraph V1 Apr 1855-aug 1856 | |
| Yorkshire Spiritual Telegraph V2 Index 1856 | |
| Yorkshire Spiritual Telegraph V2 Sep 1856-nov 1856 | |
| Yorkshire Spiritual Telegraph V3 Index 1856-57 | |
| Yorkshire Spiritual Telegraph V3 Nov 1856-feb 1857 | |
| Yorkshire Spiritual Telegraph V4 Index 1857 | |
| Yorkshire Spiritual Telegraph V4 Feb 1857-jun 1857 |
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