the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel : Riddle of the Universe

In the public library [Manny Shinwell] doggedly tackled volumes "whose contents I usually failed to understand": Paley's Evidences of Christianity, Haeckel's Riddle of the Universe, Herbert Spencer's Sociology, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. Shinwell's whole intellectual career was an exciting but laborious exercise in decoding. All his life he used a dictionary to correct his pronunciation'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell)      Print: Book

Ernst Haeckel : 

"Ellen Wilkinson, brought up in Ardwick, Manchester, went with her father to lectures on theological and evolutionary subjects, and by the time she was fourteen was reading Haeckel, Huxley and Darwin with him."

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Wilkinson and father     Print: Book

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