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. |
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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): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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 |
Author: | William Cobbett |
Title: | Weekly Political Register |
Genre: | Politics |
Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | reading group |
Record ID: | 7525 | |
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: | 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 |
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