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Wed 23 Nov, 2011 01:04 am
Charles Knight, 1791-1873, son of a Windsor bookseller, early inclined to literature, and was very keen on popular instruction. In 1828 he superintended the publications of the S. D. U. K.
@kkfengdao,
popular instruction=free education to the populace.
Quote:The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (SDUK), founded in 1826, and wound up in 1848, was a Whiggish London organisation that published inexpensive texts intended to adapt scientific and similarly high-minded material for the rapidly expanding reading public. It was established mainly at the instigation of Lord Brougham with the objects of publishing information to people who were unable to obtain formal teaching, or who preferred self-education.
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