| Evidence: | '"The choice of reading material [in ship's gaol] was either the [italics] Manual of Seamanship [end italics] or the Bible. Having been a freethinker for several years ... I decided to give this [latter] tome the benefit of the doubt and read it from cover to cover, which did nothing to convince me, but only reinforced my views".' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 1942 | ||||||||||
| Country: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | other location: At sea | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | John Edward Needham |
| 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: | 30383 | |
| 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: | 40 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Christopher McKee, Sober Men and True: Sailor Lives in the Royal Navy 1900-1945 (Cambridge, MA, 2002), p. 40, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=30383, accessed: 02 May 2024 | |
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