The Journal

The CLS Bulletin was founded in 1935. Its editors were Samuel Morris Rich (editor from 1935 to 1948) and H.G Smith (from 1948 to 1972). In 1973 Basil Willey established the new series with the slightly revised title, The Charles Lamb Bulletin. Among the contributors to the original series were Edmund Blunden, Kathleen Coburn, Helen Darbishire, Robert Gittings, Earl Leslie Griggs, Geoffrey Keynes, Aubrey Noakes, Claude Prance, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Frank Swinnerton, and Geoffrey Tillotson.  In 2023, the title was changed again, to The Charles and Mary Lamb Journal, to reflect the publication's emphasis on academic research, and to include Mary Lamb, who has always been present, but is only beginning to be more formally recognised.

All 216 issues of the original series of the Bulletin have been digitized and are available through the Journal Archive.

The new series is also now digitised and available in the same place.  However, it is important to note that all issues published within the last five years will not be available online: for information on how to subscribe to the Bulletin please click here.