This Week’s War: 48

I have said I would accept a post at Manchester as Government Examiner of War Material. It sounds grand, but is utterly trivial and monotonous work; I would far rather be a mechanic. But I want to get started at once.

2 July 1915, diary entry of Alan Dorward, later Chair of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool [University Archive D446/10/11].

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