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Archived from the original on 26 July We've noticed you're adblocking. A major town-centre shopping centre, The Oracle , opened in , is named after the 17th century Oracle workhouse , which once occupied a small part of the site. Prior to the 16th century, civic administration for the town of Reading was situated in the Yield Hall , a guild hall situated by the River Kennet near today's Yield Hall Lane. The town was home to a motorcycle speedway team, Reading Racers. By , it had a population of over and had grown rich on its trade in cloth, as instanced by the fortune made by local merchant John Kendrick. Reading East Reading West.

And the pressure to conform to a particular much narrower reading culture than the likes of Place could countenance, also caused problems in the twentieth century. An Irish labourer in Scotland, who tried to write rather than simply read literature was horribly scorned by his brother: But what the hell can anyone do about a writer? This is a book about what people read before radio and television took over their lives though it is also about what sort of radio they liked to listen to — and it was not all low-brow stuff.

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Learn about UK culture and practise your reading at the same time. In the UK everyone has to do some sort of sports at school until the age of 16 but it's not. Reading is a large, historically important minster town in Berkshire, England, of which it is now the Thames Valley, and is home to the University of Reading. Every year it hosts the Reading Festival, one of England's biggest music festivals.

Nor was what they read merely restricted to popular fiction; at the same time as workers eschewed the modernists they were also reading H. A singular theory thus escapes us. We might have expected to be able to chart working-class reading culture according to a simple model or two: Autodidactic culture did not simply die out with the education reforms of the mid-nineteenth century: Increasing literacy levels simply opened up new possibilities. Far from producing a dull, conformist intellectual gruel, schooling provided ordinary men and women with further filters to apply to their vision of the world; and the skills in reading which might otherwise have been more difficult to achieve, were instead instilled by the state.

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Interestingly, then, few of the autobiographers and diarists used by Rose express loathing of school; most, in fact, seem to have been content there. Schooldays were indeed the happiest days when much of the rest of adult life would be spent sweating inside torpedo tubes and the like with red-hot and dangerous welding all around. Such approval for school undoubtedly also developed among those who wrote of their lives because, without the core elements of education, no such task could have been undertaken.

Whatever the cause of this obsession with the written word, visitors to Britain from overseas continued to be amazed about how much the working classes read. Elsewhere, according to Carl Moritz , reading was restricted to the higher order; in Britain, it was pervasive and crossed the lines of class.

Equally, the independence of thought and action which is implied in the miraculous tales of weavers or miners skimming the pages during or between bouts of work does not lead to the emergence of a simple, teleological relationship between literacy and politics. True, weavers could be and were radical; true, they also had prodigiously high literacy levels as noted in the west Lowlands of Scotland. This was because a book could be propped up on the weaving frame and read as the shuttle flew. And it is also true that they were early to organise in protection of their craft though technological change meant they had to.

But reading did not lead straight into Chartism or the Labour Party. It could also lead towards a conservative disposition on the part of some; it also created that curious breed the working-class Tory, all imperial loyalty and Primrose League.