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Thomas Hodgkin: the limits of idealism

Kirtan Nautiyal Houston, Texas, United States   Thomas Hodgkin Thomas Hodgkin was born in 1798 into a middle class Quaker family then residing in Pentonville, a village north of London. His father was a private tutor and Hodgkin’s early education was also conducted at home, balancing instruction in the Quaker tenets of simplicity and social […]