| Evidence: | '"This book [Dr Foote's Plain Home Talk and Cyclopaedia) made a great impression on me", wrote Glasgow foundryworker Thomas Bell "And I handed it round my workmates until it was as black as coal and the batters torn".' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Glasgow | ||||||||||
| Type of Experience (Reader): |
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| Reader: | Thomas Bell |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1882 |
| Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
| Occupation: | foundryworker |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | Scotland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Edward Bliss Foote |
| Title: | Plain Home Talk and Cyclopaedia |
| Genre: | Textbook / self-education, Medicine, Reference / General works |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 3832 | |
| Source - | ||
| 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: | 213 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 213, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3832, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
| See Thomas Bell, 'Pioneering Days' (London, 1941) pp.32-33 |
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