| Evidence: | 'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Peru and Mexico and The French Revolution. Academic critics today might discern ideologies in all of the above, but that was not Lawson's reading of them. "Of politics I knew nothing and cared less", he recalled, yet his purely literary readings had helped him form "some very definite opinions on the right and wrong of things social..."' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899, 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Until: 1900 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Durham | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Jack Lawson |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1881 |
| Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
| Occupation: | collier |
| 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: | Edward Gibbon |
| Title: | [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?] |
| Genre: | History |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown From Boldon Miners' Institute - uncertain whether borrowed or read in situ |
| Record ID: | 1433 | |
| 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=1433, accessed: 07 December 2023 | |
| See Jack Lawson, 'A Man's Life' (London, 1932) |
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