Instead, there is a heroic statue of Josiah Wedgwood, a buzzing university campus and a new Sixth Form Centre.

ECONOMIST: Letters

Conceivably, this trite exercise in romantic fiction is intended to draw more readers into the absorbing world of Josiah Wedgwood.

ECONOMIST: Feat of clay

There was Erasmus Darwin, an enormously fat doctor, Matthew Boulton, a pushy metal-goods manufacturer, and Josiah Wedgwood, the man who turned fine pottery into a commercial goldmine.

ECONOMIST: 18th-century science