Discourses for the new industrial world: industrialisation and the education of the public in late eighteenth‐century Britain

Dick, Malcolm

doi:10.1080/00467600802101918

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(Iv) 1700–1850 Peter Kirby University Of Manchester1

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“…The transmission of ‘useful knowledge’ often went on independently of formal educational structures. Dick charts the success of three prominent British Enlightenment thinkers (Matthew Boulton, James Keir, and Anna Seward) in providing information to the general public. Jones, meanwhile, consults the archive of Boulton's Soho Manufactory between 1765 and 1820, finding a practical example of ‘industrial enlightenment’ in action, and Burns examines the natural history interests of David Ure who completed a number of surveys for Sir John Sinclair's Statistical account of Scotland of 1791–9.…”

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