.jpg) Secular Review cover, 9 Jan. 1886 | |
| Type | Weeklyperiodical |
|---|---|
| Editor | George Jacob Holyoake (1876–1877) Charles Watts (1877–1882) George William Foote (1877–1878) William Stewart Ross (1882–1907) |
| Founded | 1876 |
| Political alignment | Freethought |
| Language | English |
| Ceased publication | 1907 |
Secular Review (1876–1907) was afreethought/secularist 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 oldOwenite and newsocialist influences in contrast to the individualism andsocial conservatism ofCharles Bradlaugh and hisNational Reformer.[1] It was edited during the period 1882–1906 byWilliam Stewart Ross (1844–1906), who signed himself "Saladin."[2]
The journal was founded in August 1876 byGeorge Jacob Holyoake, after he andGeorge William Foote experienced difficulties with their collaborative editorship of theSecularist: 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'sSecularist, under joint editorship, to form theSecular Review and Secularist. Foote served as co-editor with Watts until March 1878, after which Watts edited the paper on his own until 1882.
William Stewart Ross 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 theAgnostic Journal and Secular Review, and shortly thereafter changed the name again to theAgnostic Journal and Eclectic Review. Ross died in November 1906 and the last issue was published in June 1907.[1][3][4]