| Evidence: | 'When asked how he passed the time in the [ship's jail] cell, [Edward] Pullen replied, "Just read the Bible, that's all. Nothing else. You wouldn't have nothing else ... And pick your pound of oakum, see. When you'd picked that, you had nothing else to do ... Just loiter about, see, in the cell".' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1907 and 1909 | ||||||||||
| Country: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | other location: At sea aboard HMS Drake | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Edward Pullen |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | n/a |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) Sailor, Royal Navy |
| Occupation: | Sailor |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | n/a |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | |
| Title: | The Bible |
| Genre: | Bible |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 30373 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Christopher McKee | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Sober Men and True: Sailor Lives in the Royal Navy 1900-1945 | |
| Place of Publication: | Cambridge, MA | |
| Date of Publication: | 2002 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 39 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Christopher McKee, Sober Men and True: Sailor Lives in the Royal Navy 1900-1945 (Cambridge, MA, 2002), p. 39, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=30373, accessed: 28 April 2024 | |
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