C. J. Grant Satirizes Lord Brougham and the SDUK

9/1832
Beneath Lord Brougham a sign on a rubbish pile of books reads "The Encyclopaedia Britannica & other Waste Paper to be Sold."  Behind him is edifice of books titled "Office of the Society for the Diffusion of ...l Knowledge" and a sheet reading "Materials for the Penny Clocpaeida to commence in 1833 and to end the Devil knows when."
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Beneath Lord Brougham a sign on a rubbish pile of books reads "The Encyclopaedia Britannica & other Waste Paper to be Sold."  Behind him is edifice of books titled "Office of the Society for the Diffusion of ...l Knowledge" and a sheet reading "Materials for the Penny Clocpaeida to commence in 1833 and to end the Devil knows when."

Within months of the launching of The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (SDUK) and The Penny Magazines satirists took the opportunity to hold it to ridicule. In this print Charles Jameson Grant depicts Henry Brougham as a newsboy blowing a ridiculously small trumpet. 

Timeline Themes

Publishing
Book Production in the Industrial Revolution: Origins of Mass Media
Education / Scholarship / Reading / Literacy

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