| Evidence: | 'In the months leading up to the First World War, C.H. Rolph learned shorthand by taking dictation as his father read from the Daily Telegraph, The Times, the Referee and John Bull. That exercise drilled into him words like the Schlieffen Plan, Entente Cordiale, the Balkans... tariff reform, passive resistance... Yet they were all meaningless to him and to other boys his age (twelve) because they were scarcely mentioned or explained in school'. |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1913 and 1914 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Listener: | C.H. Rolph |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1900 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | journalist/writer |
| 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: | |
| Title: | The Times |
| Genre: | n/a |
| Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 3859 | |
| 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: | 220 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 220, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3859, accessed: 02 May 2024 | |
| See C.H. Rolph, 'London Particulars', p.82. No further ref traceable in Rose |
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