Record Number: 7344
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
??we were soon in a free conversation on the subject of parliamentary reform. When objections were stated, they listened candidly to our replies, and a good-humoured discussion, half serious, half joking, was prompted on both sides. I and Mitchell had with us, and it was entirely accidental, a few of Cobbett?s "Registers" and Hone?s Political Pamphlets, to which we sometimes appealed, and read extracts from. The soldiers were delighted; they burst into fits of laughter; and all the copies we had, being given to them, one of them read the "Political Litany" through, to the further great amusement of himself and the company. Thus we passed a most agreeable evening and parted only at the last hour.?
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1 Jan 1817 and 31 Mar 1817
Country:England
Timeafternoon: on a Sunday afternoon
Place:city: London
specific address: Knightsbridge Barracks
other location: NCO's room
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary reactive unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:28 Feb 1788
Socio-Economic Group:Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation:Weaver
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
Bamford's companion, Joseph Mitchell, and six sergeants
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Weekly Register
Genre:Essays / Criticism, Politics
Form of Text:Print: Newspaper
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:7344
Source:Samuel Bamford
Editor:n/a
Title:Passages in the life of a radical
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1844
Vol:1
Page:22-3
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Samuel Bamford, Passages in the life of a radical (London, 1844), 1, p. 22-3, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=7344, accessed: 19 April 2024
Additional Comments:
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