An unstamped weekly (28 September 1839 – 9 July 1842), one of the most popular Chartist publications, published in Glasgow by the Universal Suffrage Committee for Scotland, and aimed at a lower and middle-class readership.
Poem title | Poets | Date | Vol etc. | Transcribed? | id # |
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Songs for the People. No. III | Donald, George (1800-1851) | 1840-01-04 | Volume: 1, Issue: 15, Page: 60 | yes | 12 |
Songs for the People. No. IV | Donald, George (1800-1851) | 1840-01-11 | Volume: 1, Issue: 16, Page: 64 | yes | 13 |
The Age of Harmony | Thomson, William | 1840-01-18 | Volume: 1, Issue: 17, Page: 68 | yes | 14 |
Songs for the People. No. V | Donald, George (1800-1851) | 1840-01-25 | Volume: 1, Issue: 18, Page: 72 | yes | 15 |
Harry Brougham | Teufelsdrockh (pseudonym) | 1840-02-01 | Volume: 1, Issue: 19, Page: 76 | yes | 16 |
For the Chartists—A New Song. I Hae a Cot, a Wee Kail-Yard | Symons, Jelinger Cookson | 1840-02-08 | Volume: 1, Issue: 20, Page: 80 | yes | 20 |
A Song for the Millions | E. P. (poet; The Chartist Circular) | 1840-02-15 | Volume: 1, Issue: 21, Page: 84 | yes | 21 |
The Selfish, Tyrannical Whig | 1840-02-22 | Volume: 1, Issue: 22, Page: 88 | yes | 22 | |
Songs for the People.—No. VI | Donald, George (1800-1851) | 1840-02-29 | Volume: 1, Issue: 23, Page: 92 | yes | 23 |
Song. Wallace, Knight of Elderslie | 1840-03-07 | Volume: 1, Issue: 24, Page: 100 | yes | 24 | |
The Press | Elliott, Ebenezer | 1840-03-14 | Volume: 1, Issue: 25, Page: 104 | yes | 25 |
Unenfranchised | Southey, Robert | 1840-03-14 | Volume: 1, Issue: 25, Page: 104 | yes | 7914 |
The Emigrant’s Farewell | E. P. (poet; The Chartist Circular) | 1840-03-21 | Volume: 1, Issue: 26, Page: 108 | yes | 26 |
Hymns for the Unenfranchised | Linton, William James | 1840-03-28 | Volume: 1, Issue: 27, Page: 112 | yes | 27 |
Song | McDouall, Peter Murray (also McDowall) | 1840-04-04 | Volume: 1, Issue: 28, Page: 116 | yes | 28 |
Scotland’s Laurels—a Song | S. W. (poet; The Chartist Circular) | 1840-04-11 | Volume: 1, Issue: 29, Page: 120 | yes | 29 |
The Vision of Famine. Part I | Mitchell, John | 1840-04-18 | Volume: 1, Issue: 30, Page: 124 | yes | 1976 |
The Vision of Famine. Part Second | Mitchell, John | 1840-04-25 | Volume: 1, Issue: 31, Page: 128 | yes | 1977 |
The Hero | Nicoll, Robert | 1840-05-02 | Volume: 1, Issue: 32, Page: 132 | yes | 30 |
Fragmentary Stanzas | S. (The Chartist Circular) | 1840-05-09 | Volume: 1, Issue: 33, Page: 136 | yes | 31 |
Song, The Scottish Emigrant’s Farewell | H. M’D. (poet; The Chartist Circular) | 1840-05-16 | Volume: 1, Issue: 34, Page: 140 | yes | 32 |
Song, Hurrah for the Charter | H. M’D. (poet; The Chartist Circular) | 1840-05-16 | Volume: 1, Issue: 34, Page: 140 | yes | 33 |
Whig Malignity. A Simile | Argus (pseudonym) | 1840-05-23 | Volume: 1, Issue: 35, Page: 144 | yes | 34 |
On Poland | W. M. S. (poet; The Chartist Circular) | 1840-05-30 | Volume: 1, Issue: 36, Page: 148 | yes | 35 |
The Black and the White Slave | 1840-06-07 | Volume: 1, Issue: 37, Page: 152 | yes | 36 | |
Stanzas, Suggested by a Conversation with a Friend, On the Battle of Bannockburn | J. M’C. Junr. (poet; The Chartist Circular) | 1840-06-13 | Volume: 1, Issue: 38, Page: 156 | yes | 37 |
Song | M’Douall, W. | 1840-06-20 | Volume: 1, Issue: 39, Page: 160 | yes | 38 |
The Land of Freedom | Arbington (Dr. Arbington) | 1840-06-27 | Volume: 1, Issue: 40, Page: 164 | yes | 39 |
Land of Kings and Queens | 1840-07-04 | Volume: 1, Issue: 41, Page: 168 | yes | 40 | |
The Poor Man’s Wedding | 1840-07-11 | Volume: 1, Issue: 42, Page: 172 | yes | 41 | |
Liberty’s Tree | Allan, R. | 1840-07-18 | Volume: 1, Issue: 43, Page: 176 | yes | 42 |
The League of Crime | Mitchell, John | 1840-07-25 | Volume: 1, Issue: 44, Page: 180 | yes | 43 |
The King of the Radical Islands. Written a little after the death of George IV | King, James | 1840-08-08 | Volume: 1, Issue: 46, Page: 168 | yes | 44 |
My Scottish Boy | C. F. (poet; The Chartist Circular) | 1840-08-15 | Volume: 1, Issue: 47, Page: 192 | yes | 45 |
Invocation to the Memory of Sir William Wallace | Argus (pseudonym) | 1840-08-22 | Volume: 1, Issue: 48, Page: 196 | yes | 46 |
Questions from the Loom | Davlin, Charles | 1840-08-29 | Volume: 1, Issue: 49, Page: 200 | yes | 47 |
Scotland’s Song of Liberty, to William Lovett, John Collins, and Dr P. M. M’Douall, On their liberation from the Prisons of England, July and August, 1840 | Polin, Edward | 1840-09-05 | Volume: 1, Issue: 50, Page: 204 | yes | 1184 |
“Give Us this Day our Daily Bread” | Binns, George | 1840-09-12 | Volume: 1, Issue: 51, Page: 208 | yes | 49 |
The Battle Field | Allan, R. | 1840-09-19 | Volume: 1, Issue: 52, Page: 212 | yes | 51 |
The Auld State Kirk. New Song | 1840-09-19 | Volume: 1, Issue: 52, Page: 212 | yes | 50 | |
A Voice from Beverley | Peddie, Robert | 1840-09-26 | Volume: 1, Issue: 53, Page: 216 | yes | 52 |
Stanzas | Cook, Eliza | 1840-10-03 | Volume: 1, Issue: 54, Page: 220 | yes | 53 |
The Freeman and the Slave | Polin, Edward | 1840-10-10 | Volume: 1, Issue: 55, Page: 224 | yes | 54 |
Touch not that Sword | King, James | 1840-10-17 | Volume: 1, Issue: 56, Page: 228 | yes | 55 |
The Complaints of the Poor | Southey, Robert | 1840-10-24 | Volume: 1, Issue: 57, Page: 232 | yes | 56 |
The March of Intellect | McQueen, Thomas (also MacQueen) | 1840-10-31 | Volume: 1, Issue: 58, Page: 236 | yes | 57 |
The Marseillaise Hymn | Rouget de Lisle, Claude Joseph | 1840-11-07 | Volume: 1, Issue: 59, Page: 240 | yes | 58 |
The Spirit of the Times | Holland, John | 1840-11-14 | Volume: 1, Issue: 60, Page: 244 | yes | 59 |
The Toilers’ Homes of England | Polin, Edward | 1840-11-21 | Volume: 1, Issue: 61, Page: 248 | yes | 60 |
To the Memory of John Tait, Late Editor of the Liberator. Written at his Grave in the Necropolis, Glasgow | Brown, William | 1840-11-28 | Volume: 1, Issue: 62, Page: 252 | yes | 61 |
The White Slave’s Murmurs | Whitelocke, Samuel | 1840-12-05 | Volume: 1, Issue: 63, Page: 258 | yes | 62 |
Address to the Enslaved Millions | Polin, Edward | 1840-12-12 | Volume: 1, Issue: 64, Page: 262 | yes | 63 |
The Poor of the City | 1840-12-19 | Volume: 1, Issue: 65, Page: 266 | yes | 64 | |
“A Voice from Beverley.” No. II | Peddie, Robert | 1840-12-26 | Volume: 1, Issue: 66, Page: 280 | yes | 65 |