Record Number: 1435
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Peru and Mexico and The French Revolution. Academic critics today might discern ideologies in all of the above, but that was not Lawson's reading of them. "Of politics I knew nothing and cared less", he recalled, yet his purely literary readings had helped him form "some very definite opinions on the right and wrong of things social..."'
Century:1850-1899, 1900-1945
Date:Until: 1900
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Durham
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:1881
Socio-Economic Group:Labourer (non-agricultural)
Occupation:collier
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Conquest of Mexico
Genre:History
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
From Boldon Miners' Institute - uncertain whether borrowed or read in situ
Source Information:
Record ID:1435
Source:Jonathan Rose
Editor:n/a
Title:The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
Place of Publication:New Haven
Date of Publication:2001
Vol:n/a
Page:52
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, (New Haven, 2001), p. 52, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=1435, accessed: 03 December 2024
Additional Comments:
See Jack Lawson, 'A Man's Life' (London, 1932)