Newsboys: spanish american patriot children and ‘The Hazelwood Magazine’ in Birmingham, England, 1820s
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https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-864X.2020.2.35358Keywords:
Hazelwood school, Spanish American independence, Birmingham, history of childhood and youth, patriotism, Jeremy Bentham, Vicente Rocafuerte, Bernardino Rivadavia, Matthew Hill, pressAbstract
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 and
shared the underlying values of the medium.
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