The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (SDUK), founded in 1836, and wound up in 1848, was a Whiggish London organisation that published inexpensive texts intended to adapt scientific and similarly high-minded material for the rapidly expanding reading public.
The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (SDUK), founded in 1836, and wound up in 1848, was a Whiggish London organisation. Inexpensive texts intended to adapt scientific and similarly high-minded material for the rapidly expanding reading public. This was what this Whiggish London organisation published.