National Reformer
The journal was established in Sheffield in 1860, as an initiative by the Sheffield Secularists,on a prospectus describing its policy as "Atheistic in theology, Republican in politics, and Malthusian in social economy". Charles Bradlaugh was co-editor and periodically edited the journal through to 1890. Leading booksellers refused to stock it.
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Mark Allison
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This would be a splendid addition to the archive. A great suggestion!
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Ned Newitt commented
The newspaper advocated a whole range of reforms including universal suffrage and republicanism. Sales of the National Reformer reached 5,000 but in 1861 Joseph Barker left the journal because he disagreed with Bradlaugh's advocacy of birth control.
BIradlaugh recruited Besant to work on the National Reformer, and over the next few years wrote a series articles on marriage and the political status of women.