Abstract

Editions of the Magazine have been transcribed. They are available here

The Magazine

These cover the period 1901 to 1909 (1902 is missing), along with a few other years down to the 1930s.

 The magazine was a newsletter written by the vicar, John Hewlett. Normally with four pages and published monthly, these newsletters had some ‘editorial’ along with notices of future events such as Bible study classes, Confirmation Classes, and social events as well as  with extracts of births, marriages and deaths from the parish registers. Collectively the magazines provide a glimpse in to the social life of Fulwood.

At the end of the year, subscribers could return the newsletters to Hewlett who would then arrange for them to be bound into a volume of “Home Words for Heart and Heart” and evangelical compendium of “sketches of popular clergymen, with admirable portraits, and not a few short but well-written and healthy stories” edited By the Rev Bullock of Worcester. By 1875, Homes Words had a circulation of 200,00 monthly.

A brief search showed that there are volumes of Home Words for sale on the internet.

Organisation of the File Store

The File Store is on a Google Drive. It can be accessed without a google account.

The archive has two categories: the scanned images  and transcriptions of the newsletters. Each category is divided into years. Both the scanned images and the transcriptions are in PDF format.

This link will open the Drive in a new window LINK (as of December 2024 the scanned and transcriibed magazine 1901-5 are in the File Store)