| Evidence: | David Vincent notes how the nineteenth-century handloom weaver Wiliam Farish '"with Walkingham's arithmetic, and a slate and pencil at my side ... used to con over the problems as I worked the treadles"'. |
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| Century: | 1800-1849, 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | William Farish |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
| Occupation: | handloom weaver |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | n/a |
| Country of experience: | n/a |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Walkingham |
| Title: | arithmetic textbook |
| Genre: | Textbook / self-education, Mathematics |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 8256 | |
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| Author: | David Vincent | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Bread, Knowledge and Freedom: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Working Class Autobiography | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1981 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 125 n.75 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | David Vincent, Bread, Knowledge and Freedom: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Working Class Autobiography (London, 1981), p. 125 n.75, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8256, accessed: 29 March 2023 | |
| Quotation from William Farish, The Autobiography of William Fraish -- the struggles of a handloom weaver with some of his writings (1889) p.45. |
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