The New Age and Concordium Gazette

The New Age and Concordium Gazette [and Temperance Advocate]. London: R. Buchanan, for Concordium Press, Alcott House, Ham Common, Surrey, England, 1843-1844. 1 vol.

The journal of the Ham Common Concordium (1838–1848), which is described by A. W. H. Bates in their historical account of anti-vivisection and British medicine as "a utopian socialist community that collectively sought the inspiration of the ‘Triune Universal Spirit’, and whose journal, the New Age, Concordium Gazette, and Temperance Advocate, placed health at the centre of an idealistic programme of anti-militarism, temperance and ‘vegetarianism’ (veganism in modern terminology), which was extoled as the ‘beginning and end of all true reforms’. The Concordium, in turn, traced its roots to the American transcendentalist movement—which had a much broader social emphasis than the scientific transcendentalism taught in British medical schools—and named its Surrey headquarters after the New England transcendentalist philosopher Amos Bronson Alcott (1799–1888)" (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK513709/). The journal succeeded The Healthian and was published as an 8-page weekly for the first six issues, then as a 16-page monthly until the final issue (no. 24), published on 1 December 1844. “Temperance Advocate” was added to the original title from issue 7.

 

 

 

 

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