| Evidence: | '[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work and Wages particularly appealed to him because it offered "not the history of kings and queens, but of the way ordinary people ha struggled to live throughout the centuries..." Hughes was one of those agitators who found a virtual Marxism in Thomas Carlyle. The French Revolution inspired the hope that a popular revolt somewhere would end the war...' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1914 and 1918 | ||||||||||
| Country: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | other location: prison | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Emrys Daniel Hughes |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1894 |
| Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
| Occupation: | son of miner |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | Wales |
| Country of experience: | n/a |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | John Richard Green |
| Title: | n/a |
| Genre: | History |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | borrowed (other) Prison library |
| Record ID: | 1385 | |
| 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: | 52 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 52, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1385, accessed: 06 December 2023 | |
| See Emrys Daniel Hughes, "Welsh Rebel" in The National Library of Scotland |
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