Record Number: 4122

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

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

Date:

unknown

Country:

Scotland

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell)

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

18 Oct 1884

Socio-Economic Group:

Labourer (non-agricultural)

Occupation:

machinist in factory, later politician

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

Scotland

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel

Title:

Riddle of the Universe

Genre:

Philosophy, Science

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

in translation from German

Provenance

borrowed (public library)

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Source Information:

Record ID:

4122

Source:

Print

Author:

Jonathan Rose

Editor:

n/a

Title:

The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes

Place of Publication:

New Haven

Date of Publication:

2001

Vol:

n/a

Page:

226

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, (New Haven, 2001), p. 226, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=4122, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

See Emmanuel Shinwell, 'Lead with the Left: My first Ninety-Six Years' (London, 1981) pp25-35