The penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 2
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. Its format was to offer short essays on a variety of topics the paternalistic publisher deemed important to its readership. This was the second edition. - Summary by LynneT (1 hr 8 min)
Chapters
| Pompeii | 6:47 | Read by SilasF |
| Van Diemen's land (continued from our last) | 14:52 | Read by Beeswaxcandle |
| Lost Camel | 4:38 | Read by Lauren Fontaine |
| British Animals | 7:52 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| The Week | 7:50 | Read by David Lawrence |
| The British Museum | 10:16 | Read by BettyB |
| Poesie | 5:35 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| On the choice of a Laboring Man's Dwelling | 10:32 | Read by SilasF |