Record Number: 5965
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'[Aneurin Bevan] burrowed through the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library, and acquired his characteristically grandiose vocabulary through close study of Roget's Thesaurus... When he chaired the Tredegar Library Committee, ?60 of its ?300 acquisitions budget was delegated to a colliery repairman to buy philosophy books. Bevan could quote Nietzsche, discuss F.H. Bradley's "Appearance and Reality", and deeply impress an Oxford tutor with his crique of Kant's "Categorical Imperative"... Bevan was... deeply influenced by "The Theory of the Leisure Class".'
Century:1850-1899, 1900-1945
Date:unknown
Country:Wales
Timen/a
Place:city: Tredegar
other location: Workmen's Institute Library
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Child (0-17)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:15 Nov 1897
Socio-Economic Group:Labourer (non-agricultural)
Occupation:later Labour politician
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:Wales
Country of Experience:Wales
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Roget's Thesaurus
Genre:Reference / General works
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceread in situ
read at Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library
Source Information:
Record ID:5965
Source: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:423
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, (New Haven, 2001), p. 423, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5965, accessed: 21 December 2024
Additional Comments:
See Smith, 'Bevan and South Wales', pp.178-94; Foot, 'Bevan', various page refs.
