Early Closing Association
19th-century movement in support of the closure of shops on Saturday afternoons.
Amenity society
Organisation tasked with monitoring the planning and development of listed structures.
Bluestocking
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Bluestocking Circle
Group formed around a number of wealthy and influential English women during the mid-18th century, to debate literature and the arts, and support female education and writing.
The College of Psychic Studies
Educational charity founded in 1884, offering training in mediumship and various divinatory tools.
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
Society founded in London in 1826 to publish cheap and accessible works on scientific and artistic subjects.
Records of the Past Exploration Society
Society established in 1900 in Washington D.C., with a particular interest in biblical archaeology.
Society for Psychical Research
Registered charity founded in 1882 to conduct scientific investigations into psychic and paranormal phenomena.
Manchester Society for Women’s Suffrage
Society whose aim was to obtain the same rights for women to vote for Members of Parliament as those granted to men, formed at a meeting in Manchester in January 1867.
Lancashire and Cheshire Miners Permanent Relief Society
Form of friendly society started in 1872 to provide financial assistance to miners who were unable to work after being injured in industrial accidents in collieries on the Lancashire Coalfield.