| Evidence: | '[Jim Flowers's ] trade unionist father had given him Tom Paine to read, so he took an internationalist republican view of history. During the First World War, when the headmaster read aloud rosy dispatches from the Daily Chronicle, "It struck me that if ever the British had to go backwards they wouldn't say it was a retreat, it was a strategic withdrawal...".' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1914 and 31 Dec 1918 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | daytime | ||||||||||
| Place: | other location: at school | ||||||||||
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| Listener: | Jim Flowers |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
| Occupation: | engineer's son |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
school class |
| Additional comments: | reader was headmaster |
| Author: | n/a |
| Title: | The Daily Chronicle |
| Genre: | Reference / General works |
| Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 4558 | |
| 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: | 339 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 339, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4558, accessed: 26 April 2024 | |
| See Humphries, 'Hooligans or Rebels?', pp.41-44. |
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