MAPS ON THIS CD:

1: The British Isles
2: Geology of England & Wales
3: Canals & Railways
4: England north
5: England west central & Wales
6: England east central
7: England southwest
8: England southeast
9: Scotland
10: Scotland south
11: Scotland north
12: Scotland, Hebrides, Orkney, Shetland
13: Roman Britain south
14: Roman Britain north
15: Ireland
16: Ireland north
17: Ireland south
18: Birmingham town plan
19: Dublin town plan
20: Dublin environs
21: Edinburgh town plan
22: Edinburgh environs
23: Liverpool town plan
24: London 1836
25: London 1843
26: London environs

The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, founded in 1826, was a Whiggish London organisation that published inexpensive texts intended to adapt scientific and similarly high-minded material for the rapidly expanding reading public. It was established mainly at the instigation of Lord Brougham with the objects of publishing information to people who were unable to obtain formal teaching, or who preferred self-education. The Society was sometimes mentioned in contemporary sources as SDUK.

SDUK publications were intended for the working class and the middle class, as an antidote to the more radical output of the pauper presses. The society set out to achieve this by acting as an intermediary between authors and publishers by launching several series of publications. It was run by a committee of eminent persons, and had a close association with the newly formed University College London, as well as the numerous provincial Mechanics' Institutes. Its printers included Baldwin & Cradock who was succeeded by Charles Knight (publisher). The Society commissioned work and dealt with the printers, and finally distributed the publications.

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