the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford : [unknown]

'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester Reference Library. There he discovered, Adam Smith, Ricardo, Herbert Spencer, Huxley, Mill, Emerson, Dickens, Morris, Blatchford, Shaw and Wells, and of course John Ruskin..."Study always left me with a deep feeling that there was so much amiss with the world. It seemed that it had been started at the wrong end, and that it was everybody's business to put the matter right".'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Toole      Print: Book

Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford : [article on submarine warfare in the "Weekly Dispatch"]

'Do you read Blatchford in the Weekly Despatch? He is very good this week on "The Danger of the Submarine" and warns us again.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry William Williamson      Print: Newspaper

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