Record Number: 3832

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'"This book [Dr Foote's Plain Home Talk and Cyclopaedia) made a great impression on me", wrote Glasgow foundryworker Thomas Bell "And I handed it round my workmates until it was as black as coal and the batters torn".'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

unknown

Country:

Scotland

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Glasgow

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:

Thomas Bell

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1882

Socio-Economic Group:

Labourer (non-agricultural)

Occupation:

foundryworker

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

Scotland

Country of Experience:

Scotland

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Edward Bliss Foote

Title:

Plain Home Talk and Cyclopaedia

Genre:

Textbook / self-education, Medicine, Reference / General works

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

3832

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:

213

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, (New Haven, 2001), p. 213, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3832, accessed: 20 April 2025

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Additional Comments:

See Thomas Bell, 'Pioneering Days' (London, 1941) pp.32-33