G. K.'s Weekly was a British publication founded in 1925 (pilot edition late 1924) by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, continuing until his death in 1936. It contained much of his later journalism, and extracts from it were published as The Outline of Sanity. 1925 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... For the town of Chesterton in Cambridgeshire, see Chesterton (Cambridge). ...

Chesterton had for seven years (1916-1923) been continuing as editor The New Witness, previously owned by his brother Cecil Chesterton who had served in the British Army from 1916 and died in France in 1918. Gilbert had kept it going with Cecil's widow. That paper had been founded (as Eye-Witness) by Hilaire Belloc. With the continuation of G. K.'s Weekly after Gilbert's death, by Belloc's son-in-law Reginald Jebb with Hilary Pepler, the complete series of publications therefore reads as Cecil Edward Chesterton (1879 Р1918) was an English journalist, known particularly for his role as editor of The New Witness from 1912 to 1916, and in relation to its coverage of the Marconi scandal, and British anti-Semitism. ... The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. ... Photograph of Belloc Joseph Hilaire Pierre Ren̩ Belloc (July 27, 1870 - July 16, 1953) was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. ...

The Eye-Witness (1911-1914) → The New Witness (1914-1923) → G. K.'s Weekly (1925-1936) → The Weekly Review (1936/7 - 1948, when it became a short-lived monthly)

The essential continuity under the main editorial figures (those mentioned, plus W. R. Titterton who was Gilbert's sub-editor), is a manifestation of the political and economic doctrine of distributism. This was mainly the work of Belloc, Gilbert and Cecil Chesterton, and Arthur Penty, and had its origins in an Edwardian-era split of Fabian socialism in London circles, around A. R. Orage and his prominent publication The New Age. In fact in founding The Eye-Witness Belloc took a title of a book of essays of his own from a couple of years before, and drew initially on a group of writers more associated with The Speaker (editor J. L. Hammond), an old paper bought up by a group of young Liberals (Robert Speaight's biography of Belloc goes into this). Before the Marconi scandal, at least, the writers were a broad group. (A full account of distributism is complicated by the way from about 1920 Orage also had a comparable political and economic doctrine, Social Credit, amongst his major concerns; this other 'wing' drew in Ezra Pound, for example.) The papers under discussion in this article became, in practical terms, the organs of the distributist group. This came together as the Distributist League in or about 1925, just as G. K.'s Weekly appeared as a revamped publication. The main business of the League, organisationally, fell to Titterton. William Richard Titterton (1876 – 1963) was a British journalist, writer and poet, now remembered as the friend and first biographer of G. K. Chesterton. ... Distributism, also known as distributionism and distributivism, is an anti-capitalist economic philosophy formulated by such Catholic thinkers as G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc to apply the principles of social justice theoretically articulated by the Roman Catholic Church. ... Arthur Joseph Penty (1875 –1937) was a British architect, and writer on Guild socialism and distributism. ... The Fabian Society is a British socialist intellectual movement best known for its initial ground-breaking work beginning in the late 19th century and then up to World War I. Similar societies exist in Australia and New Zealand. ... Alfred Richard Orage was a socialist known for editing the magazine New Age. ... Robert Speaight (1904 – 1976) was a British actor and writer. ... The Marconi scandal was a British political scandal that broke in the summer of 1912, and ran on for about a year. ... Social Credit is an economic theory and a social movement which started in the early 1920s. ... Ezra Pound in 1913. ...

Chesterton travelled the country to local distributist chapters. There is an account by Marshall McLuhan of how he attended a London League meeting in June 1935, travelling from Cambridge, where he was a doctoral student, with the local distributist activist. Herbert Marshall McLuhan (July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980) was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar, professor of English literature, literary critic, and communications theorist, who is one of the founders of the study of media ecology and is today an honorary guru among technophiles. ... Map of the Cambridgeshire area (1904) The city of Cambridge is an old English university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire. ...

G. K.'s Weekly in fact gained little financially for Chesterton; it was not a lucrative venture, but a gesture of respect for Cecil's memory. Maisie Ward in Gilbert Keith Chesterton goes into the financial side, naming Lord Howard de Walden (T. E. Ellis, or Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis) as one of the patrons. The financial state of the publications meant that contributors could expect little or no reward. One later famous name who first broke into journalism this way was Eric Blair (George Orwell as he was to become known), whose first publication was in G. K.'s on 29 December 1928 ('A Farthing Newspaper'), placed from Paris where he was at the time. Fifteen years later A. K. Chesterton would attack Orwell in the pages of The Weekly Review, over a hostile review in The Observer of a 1943 book Lest We Regret by Douglas Reed, and Orwell hit back in the pages of Tribune. George Orwell George Orwell was the pen name of British author Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903–21 January 1950). ... Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by the pen name George Orwell, was a British author and journalist. ... Arthur Keneth Chesterton (1896 — August 16, 1973) was an ultra right-wing politician and journalist, instrumental in founding a number of right-wing organisations in Britain, primarily in opposition to the break-up of the British Empire, and later adopting a broader anti-immigration stance. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Douglas Reed (1895, Britain-) was a journalist, playwright, novelist, and author of a number of books on his political analysis. ... Tribune is a democratic socialist weekly, currently a magazine though in the past more often a newspaper, published in London. ...

References

• The Outline of Sanity (1926) G. K. Chesterton
• G.K.'s Weekly, a Sampler (1986) editor Lyle W. Dorsett