Four conversations in which one speaker annoys the other. Coloured etching, 1800.

A parson guilty of long tedious sermons has fallen asleep as a veteran relates at length the tactics used at the battle of Dettingen: both ignore a woman who brings them a  dish of cooked chicken. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1784.

World War One: three French prisoners of war slouching in a prison yard. Colour halftone after a crayon drawing by L. Raemaekers.

An army officer lectures his bored class on the effects of gas, one student is made to wear a gas mask while another wickedly tries to set light to it. Pen and ink drawing by H. Bury, 1916.

1 print : etching, with engraving ; platemark 16.9 x 10.8 cm

A student reads to an audience the epic poems of Sir Richard Blackmore and the sermons of John ("Orator") Henley to find out which is the more soporific; his audience fall asleep with boredom. Etching by C. Grignion after F. Hayman.

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 10.2 x 49 cm.

iii, 86 pages including : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Fatigue and boredom in repetitive work / by S. Wyatt and J.N. Langdon ; assisted by F.G.L. Stock.

Boredom : a lively history / Peter Toohey.

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A student reads to an audience the epic poems of Sir Richard Blackmore and the sermons of John ("Orator") Henley to find out which is the more soporific; his audience fall asleep with boredom. Etching by C. Grignion after F. Hayman.

Four conversations in which one speaker annoys the other. Coloured etching, 1800.

Fatigue and boredom in repetitive work / by S. Wyatt and J.N. Langdon ; assisted by F.G.L. Stock.

A parson guilty of long tedious sermons has fallen asleep as a veteran relates at length the tactics used at the battle of Dettingen: both ignore a woman who brings them a dish of cooked chicken. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1784.

Boredom : a lively history / Peter Toohey.

Boredom

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A student reads to an audience the epic poems of Sir Richard Blackmore and the sermons of John ("Orator") Henley to find out which is the more soporific; his audience fall asleep with boredom. Etching by C. Grignion after F. Hayman.

Four conversations in which one speaker annoys the other. Coloured etching, 1800.

Fatigue and boredom in repetitive work / by S. Wyatt and J.N. Langdon ; assisted by F.G.L. Stock.

A parson guilty of long tedious sermons has fallen asleep as a veteran relates at length the tactics used at the battle of Dettingen: both ignore a woman who brings them a dish of cooked chicken. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1784.

Boredom : a lively history / Peter Toohey.

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