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William Godwin on education: ‘Refer them to reading, to conversation, to meditation; but teach them neither creeds nor catechisms, either moral or political.’ contents: introduction · life · anarchism · education · references · links · how to cite this piece William Godwin (1756 – 1836) was the first writer ‘to give a clear statement ... Read more

If today’s readers and writers of crime fiction look over their shoulders, who are lurking in the shadows behind Agatha Christie, Raymond...

William Godwin

Welsh textile manufacturer and social reformer who founded the Co-operative Movement. At 21 he managed the Piccadilly Mill and later belonged to the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society and was on the Manchester Board of Health.

“I have no doubt of seeing the animal today,” Mary Wollstonecraft wrote hastily to her husband, William Godwin, on August 30, 1797, as she waited for the midwife who would help her deliver the couple’s first child. The “animal” was Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, who would grow up to be Mary Shelley, wife of the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and author of Frankenstein, one of the most enduring a...

Mary Wollstonecraft believed that experience shaped thought and development and her own early life shaped her ideas about women's and human rights.

on this day in #chemistry May 2nd William Nicholson became the first man to produce a chemical reaction by electricity on this day in 1800 The English chemist discovered that when leads from a battery are placed in water (H2O), the water breaks up into hydrogen (H2) and oxygen (O2) bubbles, which collect separately at the submerged ends of the wires. This process is called electrolysis.

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It is often said that William Godwin’s Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman of 1798 destroyed Mary Wollstonecraft’s reputation for over a hundred years. If that is true, it…

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