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Spanish American Patriot Children and 'The Hazelwood Magazine' in Birmingham, England, 1820s

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ID4905019
AuthorsKaren Racine (0000-0001-8879-2927, University of Guelph, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume46
Issue2
Pagese35358
Publication date2020-08-11
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEstudos Ibero-Americanos (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0101-4064 • E-ISSN: 1980-864X
PublisherEdipucrs (PUBLISHER • BR)
DOI10.15448/1980-864x.2020.2.35358
OpenAlexW3081096356
LanguageEN
References cited16

There was a close connection between the expansion of the press and experiments with new pedagogical strategies in the early industrial age. An expanding public school system required textbooks thus creating a whole new category of demand which appealed to printers who always on the lookout for reliable markets. At the same time, literacy was increasingly understood to be a desirable characteristic for a productive, patriotic citizenry. For a period of five years or so in the 1820s, several sons of important Spanish American patriot leaders were sent abroad to study in a progressive school called Hazelwood, near Birmingham in the heart of industrializing England. While there, the boys and their friends wrote and published a monthly periodical called the Hazelwood Magazine that clearly imitated the contents of professional newspapers andshared the underlying values of the medium

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