Finding NoJL/58
TitleHull & East Riding Portfolio & Aclands Portfolio
Date1832-1887
DescriptionThis series is an artificial amalgamation of three separate journals describing themselves as Hull or East Riding Portfolio.

The first journal is 'The Hull Portfolio, or the memoirs and correspondence of James Acland' published between 1831 and 1833. The surviving issues in this series cover the dates 7 Jul 1832 to 1 Jun 1833. Issues for 1831 and 1832 are available in the Champney collection at CH/YH/071. James Acland was a political reformer and agitator.

The second journal is The Hull Quarterly and East Riding Portfolio. This journal was edited by W G B Page and published between 1884 and 1885.

The third journal is the Hull and East Riding Portfolio, which was also edited and published by W G B Page in 1887.
TypeLocal Studies/Periodical
NotesJames Acland was born in London in 1799. By the age of 16 he had moved to Bristol where he took up a role of political reformer and agitator, producing a newspaper called 'The Bristolian'. In 1831 James Acland moved to Hull where he started the newspaper the 'Hull Portfolio'. which campaigned against the policital elite, local magistrates and Hull Corporation. For further information see 'Hull's focus of discontent: James Acland, nineteenth-century agitator' in Martin Limon, 'Tales from the East Riding' (YE/942).
AccessStatusOpen
SubjectPOLITICS
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