New Addition: 1835 Newspaper of Lindfield utopian colony

The Lindfield Reporter; or Philanthropic Magazine, No. 6. ed. William Allen & W. Eade. June 1835. Schools of Industry, Lindfield / Longman & Co.: London. Softcover Sextodecimo, 15 pp (paginated 89–104).

This little pamphlet was published by the intentional community at Lindfield, England. However, it was drew on and was directed to the international network of radical activism spread across Britain, North America, and Europe, and deals with a gamut of the radical causes of the time: the abolition of slavery, universal education (the cover article is about a school for African-American children), temperance, working-class libraries, the abolition of the death penalty, as well as reports on new scientific agricultural methods.

The Lindfield utopian colony was a rural socialist experiment similar to those of Robert Owen, and a precursor of the Arts & Crafts movement of Morris. The community apparently had substantial Quaker ties, and this Quaker-associated magazine had grown out of the earlier Philanthropic Magazine. The journal ran from Jan. 1835–Dec. 1842.

There is only one set of the journal publicly available in North America.