Record Number: 10155

Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Read all about it chum in the papers, they don't interest me 'cept they don't do anything like for the likes of us, they talk about what we should eat, why don't they see we get it. . . . Vitamins-bread and bloody jam is what we get. . . . They think about more ways of making bloody money for the capitalists. . . . It's all right if they'd keep men in their bloody jobs.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

unknown

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

anon

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Unknown/NA

Occupation:

Unemployed

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

Text Being Read:

Author:

[n/a]

Title:

[Newspapers]

Genre:

Reference / General works

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

Source Information:

Record ID:

10155

Source - Manuscript:

Other

Information:

'Britain by Mass-Observation' (Harmondsworth, 1939), p. 16, in Mass Observation Online (access to this site is restricted to purchasing institutions, please see http://www.amdigital.co.uk/collections/Mass-Observation-Online for details). http://www.massobservation.amdigital.co.uk

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

Record Number: 10155

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