Record Number: 4230

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'When, during the 1926 miners' strike, [G.A.W. Tomlinson] read 'The Charge of the Light Brigade', an obvious political message "crashed into my mind, mixing together the soldiers of the poem and the men of the pits, I was terribly excited. Why hadn't all the clever people found this out?".'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

1926

Country:

England

Time

daytime: at weekends

Place:

county: Nottinghamshire
other location: down coal pit, half a mile underground

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:

G.A.W. Tomlinson

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1906

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:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Title:

The Charge of the Light Brigade

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

4230

Source:

Print

Author:

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:

242

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, (New Haven, 2001), p. 242, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=4230, accessed: 07 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

See G.A.W. Tomlinson, 'Coal-Miner', pp119-20. No further reference traceable in Rose.