The World Wide Web of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge: On the Global Circulation of Broughamite Educational Literature, 1826–1848 (original) (raw)

Victorian Periodicals Review, 2017

Abstract

The London based Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge and its many foreign connections formed a widely dispersed useful knowledge network, through which print, woodcuts, and educational theories circulated. Based on archival research this article expands the geographical scope of SDUK scholarship. Scholars have almost exclusively focused on the British context, overlooking its international importance. The article argues that the SDUK version of useful knowledge served widely different purposes depending on the local contexts it was exported to. For example, while some deemed the SDUK as being too secular evangelical missionaries abroad found great usage in their cheap literature. Through a selection of local contexts including China, Scandinavia and the Americas, the article place the SDUK in its contemporary worldwide educational context and show the versatile character of useful knowledge periodicals.

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