Evidence: | Evidence to Parliamentary Committee from Rev. Thomas Spencer, a Church of England clergyman:
"I was appealed to in the parish of which I was incumbent for 22 years, by the wife and children of a man who was coming home drunk very frequently and I went to speak to him and he said, 'I tell you, Sir, I never go to the public house for beer, I go for the news; I have no other way of getting it; I cannot afford to pay the five pence, but unfortunately I go on drinking till I have spent a shilling, and I might as well have bought the paper in the first instance; still, that is my reason, my only reason for going to the public house; I hear people read the paper and say what is going on in London, and it is the only place where I get the news.'" |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1830 and 31 Dec 1849 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | evening | ||||||||||
Place: | other location: public house | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Listener: | anon |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | unknown |
Religion: | Church of England |
Country of origin: | n/a |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
other drinkers -working men in the public house |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | |
Title: | n/a |
Genre: | Ephemera |
Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | borrowed (other) newspaper of the public house |
Record ID: | 1554 | |
Source - | Manuscript | Other |
Author: | Parliamentary Papers, Select Committee on Newspaper Stamps [Commons] 1851 (facsimile edition, Irish University Press, Shannon, 1969), p. 352, |
Citation: | Parliamentary Papers, Select Committee on Newspaper Stamps [Commons] 1851 (facsimile edition, Irish University Press, Shannon, 1969), p. 352, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1554, accessed: 18 April 2024 |
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