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The New Age was a British literary magazine, noted for its wide influence under the editorship of A. R. Orage from 1907 to 1922. It began life in 1894 as a publication of the Christian Socialist movement, but in 1907 Alfred Orage and Holbrook Jackson, who had been running the Leeds Arts Club, bought the journal with financial help from George Bernard Shaw. Jackson acted as co-editor only for the first year, after which Orage edited it alone until he sold it in 1922.[1][2] By that time his interests had moved towards mysticism, and the quality and circulation of the journal had declined. According to Brown University, "The New Age helped to shape modernism in literature and the arts from 1907 to 1922". [3]

The magazine was founded as a Journal of Christian liberalism and Socialism, published as early as 1894. [4] Orage and Jackson re-orientated it to promote the ideas of Nietzsche, Fabian socialism and later a form of Guild socialism. Opposing viewpoints and arguments were put forward in The New Age, even on issues upon which Orage had strong opinions. Topics covered in detail were the role of private property in a debate between H. G. Wells and G. B. Shaw against G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, the need for a socialist party (distinct from the newly-formed Labour Party) and women's suffrage. On this last point, the editorial line moved from initial support to bitter opposition by 1912. As The New Age moved away from Fabian politics, the leaders of the Fabian Society, Beatrice and Sydney Webb founded the journal The New Statesman to counter its effect in 1913, and this combined with the growing distance between Orage and the mainstream left reduced its influence. By then, the editorial line supported Guild socialism, expounded in articles by G. D. H. Cole and S. G. Hobson among others. After the First World War Orage began to support the Social Credit theory of C. H. Douglas.

The journal appeared weekly, and featured a wide cross-section of writers with an interest in literature and the arts, but also politics, spiritualism and economics. The journal was also one of the first places in England in which Sigmund Freud's ideas were discussed before the First World War, in particular by Maurice Eder, an early British psychoanalyst.

"The New Age" was also highly preoccupied with the definition and development of Modernism in the visual arts, literature and music, and consistently observed, reviewed and contributed to the activities of the movement.

With its woodprint illustrations reminiscent of artwork by the German Expressionists, its mixture of culture, politics, Nietzschean philosophy and spiritualism, and its non-standard appearance, The New Age has been cited as the English equivalent of the German Expressionist periodical Der Sturm, a journal to which it bore a striking resemblance.

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New Age may refer to:
  • New Age, a spiritual movement
  • New Age music
  • New Age (Bangladesh), a major Bangladeshi newspaper
  • New Age (newspaper), a defunct South African newspaper
  • The New Age, an early 20th century British literary magazine

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A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry and essays along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letters.
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Alfred Richard Orage (1873 – 1934) was a British intellectual, now best known for editing the magazine The New Age.

Early life

Born in Dacre, near Harrogate, in the West Riding of Yorkshire into a nonconformist religious family, he became a schoolteacher and
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Alfred Richard Orage (1873 – 1934) was a British intellectual, now best known for editing the magazine The New Age.

Early life

Born in Dacre, near Harrogate, in the West Riding of Yorkshire into a nonconformist religious family, he became a schoolteacher and
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George Holbrook Jackson (1874 - 1948) was a British journalist, writer and publisher. He was recognised as one of the leading bibliophiles of his time.

He was born in Liverpool, England. He worked as a clerk, while freelancing as a writer.
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The Leeds Arts Club was founded in 1903 by the Leeds school teacher Alfred Orage and Yorkshire textile manufacture Holbrook Jackson, and was probably one of the most advanced centres for modernist (modernism) thinking in Britain in the pre-First World War period.
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George Bernard Shaw

Born: 26 July 1856(1856--)
Dublin, Ireland
Died: 2 November 1950 (aged 94)

Occupation: Playwright, critic, political activist
Nationality: Irish
Genres: Comedy
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Mysticism (from the Greek μυστικός (mystikos) "an initiate" (of the Eleusinian Mysteries, μυστήρια (mysteria) meaning "initiation"[1]
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) (IPA: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈvilhelm ˈniːtʃə]) was a nineteenth-century German philosopher.
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Socialism

Currents
Communism
Democratic socialism
Eco-socialism
Guild socialism
Libertarian socialism
Market socialism
Revolutionary socialism
Social democracy
Utopian socialism


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Socialism

Currents
Communism
Democratic socialism
Eco-socialism
Guild socialism
Libertarian socialism
Market socialism
Revolutionary socialism
Social democracy
Utopian socialism


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Property law
Part of the common law series
Acquisition of property
Gift  · Adverse possession  · Deed
Lost, mislaid, and abandoned property
Alienation  · Bailment  · License
Estates in land
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Herbert George Wells

Born: 21 September 1866(1866--)
Bromley, Kent, England
Died: 13 July 1946 (aged 81)
London, England
Occupation: Novelist, Teacher, Historian,
Journalist
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George Bernard Shaw

Born: 26 July 1856(1856--)
Dublin, Ireland
Died: 2 November 1950 (aged 94)

Occupation: Playwright, critic, political activist
Nationality: Irish
Genres: Comedy
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Born: 29 May 1874(1874--)
London, England 1
Died: 14 May 1936 (aged 62)
Beaconsfield
Occupation: Journalist, Novelist
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Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (27 July 1870 – 16 July 1953) was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century.

Recent biographies of Belloc have been written by A. N. Wilson and Joseph Pearce.
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Labour Party

Leader Gordon Brown

Founded February 27, 1900
Headquarters 39 Victoria Street
London, SW1H 0HA

Political Ideology Democratic socialism (Official Position)
Social Democracy
Third Way


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The term women's suffrage refers to an economic and political reform movement aimed at extending suffrage — the right to vote — to women. The movement's origins are usually traced to the United States in the 1820s.
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Socialism

Currents
Communism
Democratic socialism
Eco-socialism
Guild socialism
Libertarian socialism
Market socialism
Revolutionary socialism
Social democracy
Utopian socialism


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Martha Beatrice Potter Webb (January 22, 1858 - April 30, 1943) was a British socialist, economist and reformer, usually referred to in the same breath as her husband, Sidney Webb. Although her husband became Baron Passfield in 1929, she refused to be known as Lady Passfield.
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Sidney James Webb, 1st Baron Passfield PC (13 July, 1859 – 13 October, 1947) was a British socialist, economist and reformer, normally referred to in the same breath as his wife, Beatrice Webb.

He was one of the early members of the Fabian Society in 1884, along with G.
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New Statesman

Type Weekly
Format Magazine

Owner N/A
Editor John Kampfner
Founded 1913
Political allegiance Left/centre-left, democratic socialism
Price £2.
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Socialism

Currents
Communism
Democratic socialism
Eco-socialism
Guild socialism
Libertarian socialism
Market socialism
Revolutionary socialism
Social democracy
Utopian socialism


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George Douglas Howard Cole (25 September 1889 – 14 January 1959) was an English political theorist, economist, and historian. As a libertarian socialist he was a long-time member of the Fabian Society and an advocate for the cooperative movement.
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Samuel George Hobson, often known as S. G. Hobson (4 February 1870 - 4 January 1940), was a major theorist of guild socialism.

Born in Bessbrook, County Armagh, Hobson was given a Quaker education in Saffron Walden and then Sidcot, Somerset.
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Clockwise from top: Trenches on the Western Front; a British Mark IV tank crossing a trench; Royal Navy battleship HMS Irresistible sinking after striking a mine at the Battle of the Dardanelles; a Vickers machine gun crew with gas masks, and German Albatros D.
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Social Credit (often called Socred for short) is an economic ideology and a social movement which started in the early 1920s. Social Credit was originally an economic theory developed by Scottish engineer Major C. H. Douglas.
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Major C. H. (Clifford Hugh) Douglas MIMechE, MIEE, (January 20 1879 -September 29 1952) son of Hugh Douglas and Louisa Hordern, was an engineer and pioneer of the Social credit concept.
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Sigmund Freud

Born May 6 1856(1856--)
Freiberg, Moravia, now the Czech Republic
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Modernism describes a series of reforming cultural movements in art and architecture, music, literature and the applied arts which emerged in the three decades before 1914.
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