Record Number: 4558

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'[Jim Flowers's ] trade unionist father had given him Tom Paine to read, so he took an internationalist republican view of history. During the First World War, when the headmaster read aloud rosy dispatches from the Daily Chronicle, "It struck me that if ever the British had to go backwards they wouldn't say it was a retreat, it was a strategic withdrawal...".'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1914 and 31 Dec 1918

Country:

England

Time

daytime

Place:

other location: at school

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary reactive unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Listener:

Jim Flowers

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder

Occupation:

engineer's son

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

school class

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

n/a

Title:

The Daily Chronicle

Genre:

Reference / General works

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

4558

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:

339

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, (New Haven, 2001), p. 339, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=4558, accessed: 09 May 2025

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Additional Comments:

See Humphries, 'Hooligans or Rebels?', pp.41-44. The reader was the headmaster.