Evidence: | In the public library [Manny Shinwell] doggedly tackled volumes "whose contents I usually failed to understand": Paley's Evidences of Christianity, Haeckel's Riddle of the Universe, Herbert Spencer's Sociology, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. Shinwell's whole intellectual career was an exciting but laborious exercise in decoding. All his life he used a dictionary to correct his pronunciation'. |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell) |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 18 Oct 1884 |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | machinist in factory, later politician |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | Scotland |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Herbert Spencer |
Title: | The Study of Sociology |
Genre: | Social Science |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | in translation from German |
Provenance: | borrowed (public library) |
Record ID: | 4123 | |
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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: | 226 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 226, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4123, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
See Emmanuel Shinwell, 'Lead with the Left: My first Ninety-Six Years' (London, 1981) pp25-35 |
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