1/1, May 1881-1972(?) This was one of the leading freethought journals of the late nineteenth century, and like similar journals of the time made space for spiritualism and psychical research. It carried contributions by Josephine Cables and A.L. Rawson and regularly noted the activities of Annie Besant, both in her freethought days and after she took up Theosophy, and snidely commented on H.P. Blavatsky (”Madame Blavatsky was cremated,

otherwise her grave would have been haunted with a large supply of bluish mist, for the gross material body of this spiritually-minded lady must have weighed some twenty stone”). See also the note under Progress. Foote spent a year in jail in the early 1880s for satirical articles in the journal in 1883 and 1883 for mockery of the established church.

Category: Freethought, Reform.