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Click here for two pre-recorded talks marking UK Disability History Month, 18 November – 20 December 2020. 1. Harriet Martineau: Living with deafness, in her own words Jenny Childs, Archivist at the Cadbury Research Library, reads extracts from her favourite

Because of Covid-19, the 2020 Martineau Society Annual Meeting was postposed until 2021.  As a result the AGM could not take place as usual.  So it was decided to conduct the 2020 AGM via Zoom.  It took place on Tuesday

Valerie Doulton has produced a podcast on Harriet Martineau,  launched 14th November 2020, as part of Valerie’s Live Literature Company podcast series on Deafness.  To listen to the podcast, please click here The Live Literature Company is a performance company based

Some of you may remember the play by Martineau Society member Valerie Doulton which was performed at the annual Martineau Society meeting in London in 2019. The play has now been published.  It explores the relationship between Charlotte Bronte and Harriet

English abstract: Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), sociologist, historian and novelist, was also a talented populariser. Illustrations of Political Economy (1832–1834) is her attempt to make Malthusian and Ricardian theories accessible to all, through the use of fiction. Two of the twenty–five

This book vividly presents previously undiscovered biographical information about Elizabeth Gaskell, the author of Mary Barton, Cranford, The Life of Charlotte Brontë, and Wives and Daughters. It also provides much contextual material about Harriet Martineau, the Brontë family and the history of Manchester. It casts significant fresh