| Evidence: | 'During these twelve months [inprison] I read with deep interest and much profit Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Hume's "History of England", and many other standard works- amongst others, Mosheims "Ecclesiastical History". The reading of that book would have made me a freethinker if I had not been one before.' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1823 and 31 Dec 1824 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Coldbath Fields other location: Prison room shared with William Tunbridge |
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| Reader: | James Watson |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1799 |
| Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
| Occupation: | Prisoner. Arrested when working as Shopman, in Richard Carlile's bookshop in the Strand, for selling a copy of Plamer's Principles of Nature.. |
| Religion: | Church of England |
| 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: | Edward Gibbon |
| Title: | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
| Genre: | History |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | borrowed (other) |
| Record ID: | 5835 | |
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| Author: | n/a | |
| Editor: | David Vincent | |
| Title: | Testaments of Radicalism | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1977 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 111 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | David Vincent (ed.), Testaments of Radicalism (London, 1977), p. 111, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5835, accessed: 10 December 2023 | |
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