The Freethinker. Vol. 81. Nos. 13, 27 and 28, 31 March, 7 and 14 July.

Each issue. 27 x 21 cm. 8 pp. 3 issues. 2 part review of Nethercot's 'The First Five Lives of Annie Besant' by Herbert Cutner plus photograph of Cutner and others at his 80th birthday celebration. The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by G.W. Foote who edited it until his death in 1915 when he was succeeded by Chapman Cohen who continued in the role until 1951. It continued as a print journal until 2014 when it went online. It is thus the oldest secularist/freethought journal in the country. Foote’s Freethinker was deliberately provocative and as a result he earned a one-year term of imprisonment for blasphemy in 1883. The magazine was the mouthpiece of the National Secular Society in which capacity it continued until well into the current century. One page torn, corroding staples.