| Description | The form and emphasis of the magazines changes significantly during the period covered. The early volumes consist almost entirely of monthly national Church magazines (such as 'The Church Monthly: An Illustrated Magazine for Home Reading' and 'The Dawn of Day', produced by S.P.C.K.) published in London and containing fictional stories and poems and miscellaneous articles about the Church generally, illustrated with line drawings etc. These were issued to subscribers at the parish level but do not contain any parochial information which, in the earlier years, is to be found only in the short 4 page monthly 'Parochial Information' sheet and vicar's letter/report (with which the national magazine was issued and later bound up) which gradually increase in relative size and importance into a parish magazine containing much more information about the parish (in the later volumes it has become 10-12pp. per month) and outweighing the montly national publication issued with it (although as late as 1931 'The Dawn of Day' was still being issued and bound up with the parish magazine). Consequently the list indicates the whereabouts and size of the parochial information in each volume. |