'[During the Great Depression] "Thousands used the Public Library for the first time", recalled itinerant labourer John Brown, who read Shaw, Marx, Engels, and classic literature until he exhausted his South Shields library.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: John Brown Print: Book
'By [age fifteen] [Ewan] McColl had also read Engels's The Peasant War in Germany and The Origins of the Family'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ewan McColl Print: Book
'By [age fifteen] [Ewan] McColl had also read Engels's The Peasant War in Germany and The Origins of the Family'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ewan McColl Print: Book
'I have just been reading and digesting Engel's Conditions of the Working Classes in England, in intention, heaven knows, a noble work; but he can't write, so it raised anger in me, instead of grief. '
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Sitwell Print: Book
