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 by Anthony Fitzpatrick and Diane Petit. It was 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.