Record Number: 3909

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Aubrey Hicks offers an illustration of how little world news reached even the best-informed workers. His father, a painter on the Rothschild estate at Tring, had attended night school and read widely, and unlike most of his neighbours he took in a quality newspaper, the Daily Chronicle. Young Aubrey read it avidly... but in the midst of [sensational events such as the sinking of the Titanic and the Wright brothers' first flight] he had only the vaguest recollection of reading something about Sir Edward Grey's diplomacy'.

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1912 and 1914

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Tring

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:

Aubrey Hicks

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder

Occupation:

painter's son

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:

Title:

Daily Chronicle

Genre:

n/a

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

3909

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:

221

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, (New Haven, 2001), p. 221, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3909, accessed: 20 April 2025

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Additional Comments:

See Aubrey Cyril Hicks, "Boyhood Memories 1902-1914" at Bucks County Record Office D/X 667