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Step back into the vibrant intellectual landscape of the Victorian era with this meticulously prepared print edition of “The penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful”. As a foundational example of English periodicals, this popular magazine played a pivotal role in the widespread dissemination of useful knowledge and educational content to a…
Cartoons by John Ryan, better known as the creator of Captain Pugwash, provide a personal portrait of the extraordinary ups and downs of religion in the Sixties-encompassing the machinations of popes and cardinals, the testimony of expert witnesses, runaway priests, radical reformists and lay protest movements.
On 16 August, 1819, at St Peter’s Field, Manchester, armed cavalry attacked a peaceful rally of some 50,000 pro-democracy reformers. Under the eyes of the national press, 18 people were killed and some 700 injured, many of them by sabres, many of them women, some of them children. The ‘Peterloo massacre’, the subject of a…
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