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Record 7525

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Now, however, they [workmen] clubbed their pence to pay for a newspaper, and selected the "Weekly Political Register" of that clever man the late William Cobbett. This journal was in the form of a pamphlet. It was chiefly filled with the letters of correspondence and the political disquisitions of the proprietor. The only news it contained was that which related to the naval and military operations of the British forces. The "Political Register" was soon thought to be deficient in matters of general interest. It was therefore exchanged for the "Courier", which in a short time gave place to the "Independent Whig". From this time the men were warm politicians - not indeed very well conversant with public affairs, but what they lacked in knowledge they made up by a rather large amount of zealous partisanship. When they were too busy to look over the newspaper, they employed me as their reader - an office whose duties I found to be very pleasant.
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Jan 1807 and 31 Dec 1807
Country: England
Time: daytime
Place: other location: at work
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
passive reactive unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reading Group:Thomas Carter, tailors, journeymen and apprentices at workshop
Age Unknown
Gender Male
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
and labourer (non agricultural)
Occupation: tailors, journeymen tailors, apprentices
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: n/a
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
tailors, journeymen tailors and apprentices at workplace
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: William Cobbett
Title: Weekly Political Register
Genre: Politics
Form of Text: Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: reading group

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 7525  
Source - Print  
  Author: Thomas Carter
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Memoirs of a working man
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1845
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 90
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Thomas Carter, Memoirs of a working man (London, 1845), p. 90, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=7525, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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