Record Number: 30720

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue. 8th Nov. 1943 A. Bruce Dilks in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read. Frank Knight immediately proved what an asset he is to the club, by pointing out that minute 3 reported the election of a committee, but did not make it at all clear what functions this committee was to fulfil. The matter was adjusted & the minutes signed.
[...]
3. The evening was devoted to a study of English Music. Margaret Dilks explained that the choice of programme had been influenced partly by the gramophone records that were available, and the hope that in this choice everyone would find at least something which pleased and interested them. Those who liked to take it as a mild protest against the Russian invasion of our concert programs were at liberty to do so. As the meeting was held on the 60th anniversary of the birthday of Sir Arnold Bax, the Master of the King’s Musick, it seemed a most appropriate choice. First, Margaret Dilks outlined the development of music in England from the 4th Century to the present day. She told of its earliest beginnings, its rise to pre-eminence in the Tudor period when English composers and executive musicians led the world, its decline during the 19th Century, and its renaissance in recent times.
4. [...] Before the Butterworth records were played Kenneth Nicholson told us something of the Shropshire Lad poems & A. E. Houseman

[signed as a true record by] Muriel M. Stevens 2.12.43. [at the club meeting held at Gower Cottage: see Minute Book, p. 168]'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Until: 8 Nov 1945

Country:

n/a

Time

evening

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Kenneth F. Nicholson

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

Quaker or associated with the Friends

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

n/a

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

A. E. Houseman

Title:

A Shropshire Lad

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

30720

Source:

Manuscript

Author:

Margaret Dilks

Title:

XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 4 (1938-1943)

Location:

private collection

Call No:

n/a

Page/Folio:

165–168

Additional Information:

Margaret Dilks was secretary to the XII Book Club from 1940 to 1970. It is inferred from this, and from the handwriting, that she was the author of this set of minutes.

Citation:

Margaret Dilks, XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 4 (1938-1943), private collection, 165–168, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=30720, accessed: 24 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

This is the reading[s] which took place before the meeting which enabled Kenneth Nicholson to give a paper on the subject ‘A. E. Housman, and A Shropshire Lad’
Material by kind permission of the XII Book Club. For further information and permission to quote this source, contact the Reading Experience Database (http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/contacts.php).