Evidence: | 'Aubrey Hicks offers an illustration of how little world news reached even the best-informed workers. His father, a painter on the Rothschild estate at Tring, had attended night school and read widely, and unlike most of his neighbours he took in a quality newspaper, the Daily Chronicle. Young Aubrey read it avidly... but in the midst of [sensational events such as the sinking of the Titanic and the Wright brothers' first flight] he had only the vaguest recollection of reading something about Sir Edward Grey's diplomacy'. |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1912 and 1914 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Tring | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Aubrey Hicks |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | painter's son |
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: | Daily Chronicle |
Genre: | n/a |
Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 3909 | |
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: | 221 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 221, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3909, accessed: 02 May 2024 |
See Aubrey Cyril Hicks, "Boyhood Memories 1902-1914" at Bucks County Record Office D/X 667 |
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