''Secular Review'' (1876–1907) was a

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weekly publication in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain that appeared under a variety of names. It represented a "relatively moderate style of Secularism," more open to old Owenite and new

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influences in contrast to the individualism and

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Charles Bradlaugh Charles Bradlaugh (; 26 September 1833 – 30 January 1891) was an English political activist and atheist. He founded the National Secular Society in 1866, 15 years after George Holyoake had coined the term "secularism" in 1851. In 1880, Br ...

and his '' National Reformer''.Laurel Brake and Marysa Demoor, eds., ''Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland'' (Academia Press, 2009), p. 566. It was edited during the period 1882–1906 by

William Stewart Ross William Stewart Ross (20 March 1844 – 30 November 1906) was a Scottish writer and publisher. He was a noted secularist thinker and used the pseudonym "Saladin". Between 1888 and 1906 he was the editor of the ''Agnostic Journal'', successor to the ...

(1844–1906), who signed himself "Saladin."

History

The journal was founded in August 1876 by George Jacob Holyoake, after he and George William Foote experienced difficulties with their collaborative editorship of the ''Secularist: A Liberal Weekly Review'' (1876–1877). In February 1877, Charles Watts assumed the editorship. A new series was started in June 1877, merging it with Foote's ''Secularist'', under joint editorship, to form the ''Secular Review and Secularist''. Foote served as co-editor with Watts until March 1878, after which Watts edited the paper on his own until 1882.

joined Watts as co-editor in January 1882 and assumed sole editorship in July 1884, using the pseudonym "Saladin". In December 1888, Ross rechristened it the ''Agnostic Journal and Secular Review'', and shortly thereafter changed the name again to the ''Agnostic Journal and Eclectic Review''. Ross died in November 1906 and the last issue was published in June 1907. Edward Royle, ''Radicals, Secularists, and Republicans: Popular Freethought in Britain, 1866-1915'' (Manchester University Press, 1980), p. 161.

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