The Typographical Circular [Manchester]
Subtitle: “Issued by the Typographical Association”
Related Journals
Start Date(s)
- 1877 (Bigmore and Wyman)
- 1849 (BLT19)
End Date(s)
Editor(s)
City
Type of Content
• Contains advertisements, superannuation fund, correspondence, suggestions, London notes, poetry, documents, deaths, news from various branches of the Typographical Association (Waterloo)
• "Details of strikes, the names of 'unfair' houses, non-members, and 'rats,' information about tramps" (Harrison 378)
• "Towards the end of the 19th Century contents were extended to include topics of general working-class interest, particularly Labour legislation, eigth-hour day, workmen's compensation, housing, pensions, Labour representation" (Harrison 563)Notes
- "The General Secretary issued a 'monthly Circular' giving details of strikes, the names of 'unfair' houses, non-members, and 'rats,' information about tramps, etc. There are references to this Circular in the minutes of the Manchester Society as early as 1834, but no copies appeared to have survived" (Harrison 378)
- Sample entries from the local Typographical Association updates: "Ashton. -- This branch has granted the sum of £5 to the Card and Blowing Room Operatives' Association of South-East Lancashire. Burton-on-Trent. -- Mr. W. Austin, secretary of this branch, has, on the nomination of the Trades Council, been elected without opposition as a member of the Town Council for the borough. Reward for Gallantry. -- At the annual meeting of the Royal Humane Society for the Hundred of Salford, held in the Mayor's Parlour, Manchester, on November 30, Mr. John Savage, a member of the Manchester Branch of the T.A., was presented with the silver medal of the society for jumping into a canal and rescuing a boy from drowning" (no. 484, 1893)
- “A continuation of the Provincial Typographical Circular, and the organ of the Typographical Association, the executive of which is seated at Manchester, Mr. Henry Slatter being the secretary. That gentleman is also the editor of the Circular, which is conducted with signal judgment and moderation” (Bigmore and Wyman 2:192) and PT&L 141
- "Manchester-based Typographical Societies' Monthly Circular (1852-74), relaunched as the Provincial Typographical Society Circular and Monthly in 1875, then transformed into the Typographical Circular in 1877" (Finkelstein 111)
- Journal's forerunner was the Northern Typographical Union, A Monthly Circular (1830-39). Then was the Monthly Circular (1852), then the Typographical Societies' Monthly Circular (1853 thru June 1875 according to Harrison, or Oct 1852 thru June 1875 according to Shattock), then the Provincial Typographical Circular (July 1875 thru June 1877), then the Typographical Circular (July 1877 thru Nov/Dec 1963)
- publisher's address: 312 Deansgate, Manchester (BLT19 Database)
- editor's address: 74 Everton Road, Manchester
Subject Categories
Sources that Discuss this Journal
- Bigmore and Wyman 2:192; 3:1663; 378, 563; 4:362; 51; 111; 7:141; 200; 1875:56
Works Cited
- Bigmore, E. C., and C. W. H. Wyman. A Bibliography of Printing. 1880. Oak Knoll P and the British Library, 2001.
