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Record 30204

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'A mail arrived after dusk. Someone sent me the Bishop's address at the Guildhall, and I read it out to those around, at their request.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: 19 Dec 1914
Country: Belgium
Time: evening
Place: city: Ploegsteert
   
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:Douglas Herbert Bell
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 11 May 1890
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Lance Corporal, London Rifle Brigade; bank employee
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: Belgium
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: [Address by the Bishop of London at Guildhall, 1914]
Genre: Sermon, Other religious, Politics
Form of Text: Print: Unknown
Publication details: 1914
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 30204  
Source - Print  
  Author: Douglas Herbert Bell
  Editor: Henry Williamson
  Title: A Soldier's Diary of the Great War
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1929
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 74
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Douglas Herbert Bell, Henry Williamson (ed.), A Soldier's Diary of the Great War (London, 1929), p. 74, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=30204, accessed: 02 May 2024

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