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Record 30084

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Do you read Blatchford in the Weekly Despatch? He is very good this week on "The Danger of the Submarine" and warns us again.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Sep 1914
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Crowborough
county: East Sussex
specific address: Camp Hill Camp
   
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

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Henry William Williamson
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender n/a
Date of Birth 1 Dec 1895
Socio-economic group: Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation: Private, London Rifle Brigade
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford
Title: [article on submarine warfare in the "Weekly Dispatch"]
Genre: Naval history and tactics
Form of Text: Print: Newspaper
Publication details: September 1914
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 30084  
Source - Print  
  Author: Anne Williamson
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Henry Williamson and the First World War
  Place of Publication: Stroud
  Date of Publication: 1998
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 26
  Additional comments: Undated letter [c. late September 1914] from Henry Williamson to Mrs Williamson.

Citation: Anne Williamson, Henry Williamson and the First World War (Stroud, 1998), p. 26, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=30084, accessed: 28 April 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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