Evidence: | 'My master - in conjunction with some friends - began to take in a newspaper, called, if I remember rightly, "Lloyd's Evening Post", and at this I sometimes got a hasty peep. At first, as was natural, I was chiefly interested with the domestic news: I took care to read about "The moving accidents by fire or flood", with an account of which a newspaper commonly abounds. But my curiosity was not long confined to these "little things". It soon led me to look at the articles of foreign intelligence...' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1806 and 31 Dec 1806 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | daytime | ||||||||||
Place: | at work? | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Thomas Carter |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 5 Jul 1792 |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | Apprentice tailor |
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 |
Author: | [n/a] |
Title: | Lloyd's Evening Post |
Genre: | Politics, Ephemera, Reference / General works |
Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | read in situ |
Record ID: | 7409 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Thomas Carter | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Memoirs of a Working Man | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1845 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 84 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Thomas Carter, Memoirs of a Working Man (London, 1845), p. 84, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=7409, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
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