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Josiah Wedgwood: The Man Who Designed Britain by Tristram Hunt is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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From one of Britain’s leading historians and the director of the Victoria & Albert Museum, a scintillating biography of Josiah Wedgwood, the celebrated eighteenth-century potter, entrepreneur, and abolitionist Wedgwood’s pottery, such as his celebrated light-blue jasperware, is famous worldwide. Jane Austen bought it and wrote of it in her novels; Empress Catherine II of Russia ordered hundreds of pieces for her palace; British diplomats hauled it with them on their first-ever mission to Peking,
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Tristram Hunt
- Publisher
- Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781250128355
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Art, Memoir, Biography
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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