Record Number: 29823

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue
    19. II. 1935
    Ethel Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read (by F. E. Pollard in the regretted absence of the Secretary), heard with wonder and admiration, & approved.

[...]

4. Edgar B. Castle, passing over the the Garden of Eden owing to a dislike of snakes, the Roman Empire from an unwillingness to feed the lions, & other intervening ages by reason of other prejudices, took us to Reading in 2000 A.D. Our eyes opened & our mouths watered as we heard of the beautiful, free, sober & happy borough to be, its advent due to the efforts of Mr Lloyd George & the Old Boys of Leighton Park. [...]'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

19 Feb 1935

Country:

England

Time

evening

Place:

city: Reading
county: Berkshire
specific address: 30, Northcourt Avenue

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary reactive unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Edgar Castle

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1897

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Schoolmaster, Headmaster of Leighton Park; subsequently Professor of Education at Hull, then Visiting Professor at Makerere

Religion:

Quaker or associated with the Friends

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

England

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

Members of the XII Book Club

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Edgar Castle

Title:

[A paper on the desirability of living in Reading in 2000 A.D.]

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Utopias, Futurology

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

29823

Source:

Manuscript

Author:

n/a

Title:

XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 3 (1931-1938)

Location:

private collection

Call No:

n/a

Page/Folio:

130–132

Additional Information:

Author of this set of minutes unidentified, but perhaps Francis E. Pollard, who read out the minutes of the previous meeting.

Citation:

XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 3 (1931-1938), private collection, 130–132, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=29823, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

Material by kind permission of the XII Book Club. For further information and permission to quote this source, contact the Reading Experience Database (http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/contacts.php).