Journals
The Humanitarian League published two journals, Humanity (1895-1902), later renamed The Humanitarian (1902-1919), and the quarterly The Humane Review (1900-1910).
Humanity
- Editor: Henry S. Salt
- Published: Ernest Bell, 1895-1902
The Beagler Boy (Vol. 1 No. 1)
- Editor: Henry S. Salt, George Greenwood
- Published: A. C. Fifield, London, Vol. 1 No. 1, February 1907
- Pages: 8
The Beagler Boy (Vol. 1 No. 2)
- Editor: Henry S. Salt, George Greenwood
- Published: A. C. Fifield, London, Vol. 1 No. 2, March 1907
- Pages: 4
The Brutalitarian ‘A Journal for the Sane and Strong’
- Editor: Henry S. Salt
- Published: Humanitarian League, Vol. 1 No. 1, October 1904
- Pages: 4
The Humane Review
- Editor: Henry S. Salt
- Published: Ernest Bell, 1900-1910
The Humanitarian
- Editor: Henry S. Salt
- Published: Ernest Bell, 1902-1919
Humanitarian League – Numbered Pamphlet Series
Official numbered pamphlet series published by the Humanitarian League (Numbers 1-24)
No.
1
Humanitarianism: Its General Principles and Progress 📄
The new Humanitarian League begins effectively what promises to be a series of publications. This thoughtful and persuasive paper must win the sympathy of all humane readers. — National Reformer.
No.
2
Royal Sport : Some Facts Concerning the Queen’s Buckhounds 📄
Do decent people generally know what devilish things are done daily in the Queen’s name and that of “Royal Sport?” — Weekly Times and Echo.
No.
3
Rabbit Coursing : An Appeal to Working Men 📄
The Humanitarian League has issued a well-reasoned and, in the main, temperate protest against one of the least defensible forms of popular recreation. — The Globe.
No.
4
The Horrors of Sport 📄
As eloquent a condemnation of the brutalising pastimes called “Sports” in England as I have ever read. — Echo.
No.
5
Behind the Scenes in Slaughter-Houses 📄
It is necessary that the attention of the public should be aroused to the evils attendant upon our present London system of private slaughter-houses, and to the duty humanity imposes on us to do all that may be done to abolish these evils. — Daily News.
No.
6
Vivisection, I. Medical Science: The True Method and the False 📄
An admirable addition to the very useful series of publications which emanate from the Humanitarian League. — Zoophilist.
No.
7
“I Was in Prison” : A Plea for the Amelioration of the Criminal Law 📄
The contents of this little publication deserve to be deeply pondered by all who love their fellow-men, and especially by all who are concerned with the administration of the criminal law. — Daily Chronicle.
No.
8
Women’s Wages, and the Conditions under which they are earned 📄
It succeeds in placing before the readers the horrible conditions under which the mass of our working sisters contribute their proportion of the superabundant wealth of this country. — Justice.
No.
9
Dangerous Trades for Women 📄
A very readable and interesting pamphlet, which will help to influence public opinion in favour of improving the sanitary condition of our industries. — British Medical Journal.
No.
10
The Extermination of Birds 📄
A strong appeal on behalf of the song birds of Britain. — Dundee Advertiser.
No.
11
The Horse: His Life, his Usage, and his End 📄
Let every humane master who puts the care of horses into other people’s hands put into those hands one of these twopenny brown paper-covered messages of mercy. — Echo.
No.
12
A Plea for Mercy to Offenders 📄
The Head Constable of Liverpool, in his report for 1892, testifies unmistakably to the success of Mr. Hopwood’s merciful system. — Weekly Times and Echo.
No.
13
The Humanizing of the Poor Law 📄
All the more valuable in that it indicates clearly a definite program of Poor Law reform. — The Sun.
No.
14
Literæ Humaniores, An Appeal to Teachers 📄
On the need of humane education and recognition that animals have rights.
No.
15
Cattle Ships and our Meat Supply 📄
No.
16
Public Control of Hospitals 📄
No.
17
The Evils of Butchery 📄
No.
18
The Dog: his Rights and Wrongs 📄
No.
19
The Shadow of the Sword 📄
No.
20
So-called Sport 📄
No.
21
What it Costs to be Vaccinated: The Pains and Penalties of an Unjust Law 📄
No.
22
The Sweating System 📄
No.
23
No.
24
The Gallows and the Lash 📄
Humanitarian League – General Pamphlets & Leaflets
General pamphlets and leaflets published by the Humanitarian League (separate from the numbered series)
British Blood Sports 📄
A series of articles, by several writers, on the various forms of sports
Corporal Punishment in India: Whipping and Morality in Gaols 📄
Deer Hunting in the New Forest 📄
Empire in India and Elsewhere 📄
A protest against the mischievous Imperialism of the day
Facts About Flogging 📄
An exposure, historical and critical, of the futility of the lash
Fallacies of Flagellants 📄
An exposure of some common sophism. Reprinted in 'The Flogging Craze'
Food and Fashion: Some Thoughts on What We Eat and What We Wear 📄
Horses in Warfare 📄
How to Kill Humanely 📄
Treats of the best methods of giving, when necessary, a mericiful death
How to Reform Our Prison System 📄
A vivid picture of the English system of treating prisoners
Imprisonment for Debt 📄
Shows that imprisonment for debt, far from being abolished in England, is a very prevalent evil
International Arbitration: Its Necessity and Practicability 📄
Notes on the Punishment of Death 📄
Deals with some special features; dates, statistics, etc.
Pasteurism in India 📄
A scientific refutation of the claims of Indian Pasteurians by a medical authority.
Pioneers of Humanity 📄
A study of some great humanitarian teachers, from Buddha to the present time.
The Cost of Sport and Some Facts about the Game Laws 📄
Showing the folly of the economic argument that sport benefits trade.
The Death Penalty 📄
Sets forth the general case against capital punishment.
The Duty of Man to the Lower Animals 📄
The Fate of the Fur Seal 📄
The Flogging of Vagrants 📄
A plea for the repeal of the obsolete Vagrant Act of 1824.
The Fur and Feather Fashions 📄
Deals with various cruelties of the fur and feather trades
The Humane Slaughtering of Animals 📄
The Irish and Irish Cattle Trade 📄
Throws light on the terrible conditions under which much of the sea-transport of animals is carried on.
The Law of the Steel Trap 📄
The writer shows that an enforcement of the law concerning the use of steel traps would put an end to much cruelty in practice.
The Meat Fetish: Two Essays on Vegetarianism 📄
Two very notable essays in praise of vegetarianism.
The Need of a Rational and Humane Science 📄
A plea for studying Nature from the human standpoint rather than through external formulas.
The Other Side of the Bars. The Case Against the Cage Bird 📄
Deals with the subject of the bird-catcher and bird-shop. With a preface by W. H. Hudson.
The Reform of the Slaughter-House 📄
Draws attention to the urgent need of replacing private by public slaughter-houses.
The Spirit of Punishment 📄
The Treatment of Prisoners 📄
An address given before the Humanitarian League.
The Truth About The Game Laws 📄
With a preface by Robery Buchanan.
The Wider Socialism 📄
Vivisection, II. An Appeal to Hearts and Heads 📄
Vivisection: Two Addresses given before the Humanitarian League 📄
A criticism of the prevalent scientific methods as opposed to the true line of progress.