Tag: Books
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Sunday 4 November 1923
Read Farrar’s Life of Christ. Notes The book referred to is a two-volume work written by Frederic W Farrar, see Index of Books Read. He had started reading it on 21 October 1923.
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Sunday 21 October 1923
Read Farrar’s Life of Christ. Notes The book referred to is a two-volume work written by Frederic W Farrar, see Index of Books Read.
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Giles’s Trip to London
Grandad Noted in His Diaries the Books He Read and the Films He Saw In his diaries, grandad sometimes noted the books he had read. He did this very methodically from 1917 to 1923. He did something similar with films he saw. Initially I Skipped This Material When I first went through the diaries, I…
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Sunday 27 May 1923
Read “Giles Trip to London“. Notes The book “Giles’s Trip to London” was written by James Spilling, the editor of the Eastern Daily Press (EDP) in the 19th century. It was written in Norfolk dialect. There is quite a detailed description of the book on joemasonspage. The EDP also reviewed the work of James Spilling…
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Wednesday 14 February 1923
Snow. Notes Diary of my grandfather Charles Gordon Parkin (see Chapter 0 for introduction to diaries and Chapter 1 for introduction to my grandfather) His diary entries in 1923 were brief and patchy. On this day, he just noted “snow“. On Sunday 4 February, he noted “went a motor ride afternoon“. From 1921 to 1931,…