The Penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
Charles Knight
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The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was published in competition to Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, which started two months earlier. Costing just one penny, it was aimed at the working class and needed broad circulation in order to survive. Initially successful, its content proved to miss the mark and be of more interest to the upper classes and folded after a couple of years. It's format was to offer short essays on a variety of topics the paternalistic publisher deemed important to its readership. (Summary by LynneT) (1 hr 17 min)
Chapters
| Reading for All | 5:06 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| Charing Cross | 5:12 | Read by David Lawrence |
| Van Diemen's Land | 9:59 | Read by Beeswaxcandle |
| The Antiquity of Beer | 3:31 | Read by Anthony Will |
| Fair Play | 4:19 | Read by Phil Schempf |
| The Zoological Gardens | 4:28 | Read by Beeswaxcandle |
| The Week | 6:59 | Read by SilasF |
| Excellence Not Limited by Station | 4:26 | Read by Phil Schempf |
| Isaac Ashford | 9:23 | Read by Brize C |
| A Quaint Sermon | 5:09 | Read by mleigh |
| A Description of Poland | 15:00 | Read by Brize C |
| A Postscript to our First Readers | 3:52 | Read by Larry Wilson |