Evidence: | 'All the mob of Potton made a great riot to celebrate the passing of the Reform Bill, and paraded the town with the most hideous yells, accompanying a triumphal car in the shape of a waggon completely covered with fresh boughs and bearing flags. They had also with them a band and three large flags bearing the following inscriptions: 'EARL GREY AND HIS COLLEAGUES', 'TAVISTOCK AND PAYNE FOR EVER', 'EARL GREY AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY', 'W.R. IV AND REFORM'. [...] The procession took place late in the evening; the band entered our garden and played several tunes, while the flags were all the while waving before the windows.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | 15 Jun 1832 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | evening | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Potton county: Bedfordshire other location: Parent's home |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Emily Shore |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | n/a |
Date of Birth | 25 Dec 1819 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer Child of schoolteacher father and author mother |
Occupation: | child |
Religion: | unknown |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | Presumably she witnessed these events with other members of her family. |
Author: | |
Title: | n/a |
Genre: | Ephemera, Flag celebrating reform |
Form of Text: | Print: flags |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | read in situ Seen through window |
Record ID: | 16584 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Shore Emily | |
Editor: | Barbara Timm-Gates | |
Title: | Journal of Emily Shore | |
Place of Publication: | Chrlottesville and London | |
Date of Publication: | 1991 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 15 | |
Additional comments: | Reprint (with some additional material) of 1891 edition of Shore's journal. |
Citation: | Shore Emily, Barbara Timm-Gates (ed.), Journal of Emily Shore (Chrlottesville and London, 1991), p. 15, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=16584, accessed: 02 May 2024 |
From edited diary. |
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