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The Lunar Society and Education
Image: Lunar Society member, Thomas Day, humanitarian poet and writer, who tried to introduce Rousseau’s educational ideas into… read more »
The Lunar Society and Education
Image: Richard Lovell Edgeworth, member of the Lunar Society, inventor and writer. The educational publication, Practical Education was… read more »
The Lunar Society and Education
Image: Dr Erasmus Darwin, doctor, scientist and poet and friend of Priestley in the Lunar Society. His Plan for… read more »
The Lunar Society and Education
Image: Lunar Society member, Samuel Galton junior, who educated his daughter, Mary, according to Priestley’s ideas. Image from: Local… read more »
The Lunar Society Trail: Following the men who made the modern world
The Lunar Society Trail – Birmingham, UK In the 18th century a unique group of friends came… read more »
The Return of the Russells to England
Image: James Skey (1754-1838) who married Martha Russell in 1798. From a miniature painting by James Millar… read more »
The Russells in America
Image: New York City in 1768. Jeyes, S H, The Russells of Birmingham in the French Revolution… read more »
