Record Number: 33046

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

‘We are billeted in a town of single-line tramways and mean streets: four-foot square vegetable gardens, where plaintive cabbages wither: cobbles, tenements and cats that walk on tiles … Thanks for the "Sunday Times" … the political crisis is a welcome change from the war—for the reader: perhaps not for the country.’

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jun 1915 and 11 Jun 1915

Country:

France

Time

n/a

Place:

other location: unpsecified billet

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:

Charles Hamilton Sorley

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

19 May 1895

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

First Lieutenant, 7th Suffolk Regiment

Religion:

Agnostic

Country of Origin:

Scotland

Country of Experience:

France

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

Sunday Times

Genre:

Politics, Ephemera

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper

Publication Details

1915

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

33046

Source:

Print

Author:

Charles Hamilton Sorley

Editor:

Jean Moorcroft Wilson

Title:

The Collected Letters of Charles Hamilton Sorley

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1990

Vol:

n/a

Page:

226

Additional Comments:

Letter [to Prof. Sorley], 11 June 1915, Northern France/Belgian border

Citation:

Charles Hamilton Sorley, Jean Moorcroft Wilson (ed.), The Collected Letters of Charles Hamilton Sorley, (London, 1990), p. 226, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33046, accessed: 24 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None