1/1, July 1875. 7s. a year., 32 pp. This was the product of the Anglo-Israel Association that had been founded in 1874 in the former house of John Wilson (who had died in 1870) in St. Pancras. In 1878 it merged with the Anglo-Ephraim Association, another Wilson group, founded about the same time, and then was subsumed into the Metropolitan Anglo-Israel Association of Edward Wheeler Bird (”Philo-Israel”) which had The Banner of Israel as its organ. This journal followed Wilson’s lead in advancing the broader theory of the Ten Lost Tribes included all Northern European and Germanic peoples in Israel’s heritage, in contrast to the view of Edward Hine which limited the succession to the English (Anglo-Saxons). It also was critical of Hine’s strange theories that the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel were distributed among the British by social classes and characteristics (Ephraim was the drunkards; Asher the soldiers; Dan the mariners; Reuben the farmers, etc.). Wilson was a phrenologist, as was the editor, Grimaldi, who contributed a sketch of Wilson’s life to the Phrenological Journal in 1897.

Category: Anglo-Israel.