Switch to English Switch to French

The Open University  |   Study at the OU  |   About the OU  |   Research at the OU  |   Search the OU

Listen to this page  |   Accessibility

the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

Reading Experience Database UK Historical image of readers
 
RED International logo

 
 
 

Advanced Search results:



Any results shown below can be ordered in a variety of ways simple by clicking on the column header. To view an individual entry click on the 'Evidence' data.

 

You searched for:




To search again: Click 'Search' in the navigation menu above or use the web browser 'back' button.

30503 records found. (displaying 20 per page)



  

Click check box to select all entries on this page:

 

Go to page: [1]   1017 1018 1019 1020 1021  1022  1023 1024 1025 1026 1027   [1526]

 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, concluding with a reading "Latter Day Warnings" for The...John J. Cooper John J. Cooper[paper on Oliver Wendell Holmes]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The evening was given over to the consideration of Thackeray. A paper by J.J. Cooper was read by Miss Marriage followed by readings from his works Charles E. Stansfiel...Miss Marriage John J. Cooper[paper on Thackeray]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933

C. E. Stansfield in the chair


1 Minutes of last read and approved


2 For the Next ...

Howard Smith John J. CooperSome Worthies of ReadingPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John James ParkConservative ReformPrint: Book
1900-1945'The Secretary read the following poem which he had received from J.J. Cooper in reply to his letter.' [the poem is pasted in below]Ernest E. Unwin John James Cooper[poem on the XII Book Club]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the life and Work of Goldwin Smith in an interesting essay. F.J. Edminson dealt with his historical work & his position as an histo...John James Cooper John James Cooper[Essay on life and work of Goldwin Smith]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Unwin with Masefield in a similar way. Alfred Rawlings...John James Cooper John James Cooper[Paper on Robert Bridges]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The secretary read the following letter from John James Cooper'. [the letter, of resignation from the club, is pasted in]Ernest E. Unwin John James Cooper[letter of resignation from XII Book Club]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John James ParkThe Dogmas of the ConstitutionPrint: Book
1850-1899'Looking back to my Father's diary - of which I have just 40 pages, which I shall page forthwith (and then dates of painters!) - I open it at 39. i. about Bp Bossuet's wo...John Ruskin John James RuskindiaryManuscript: Codex
1850-1899'Read my Father's note of flowers at Chartreuse. 21.'John Ruskin John James RuskindiaryManuscript: Codex
1850-1899'Read my Father's note on St George. p. 26'John Ruskin John James RuskindiaryManuscript: Codex
1900-1945'On the wall at the side of the chimney Dad put up the bookshelves which Dodie began to fill with secondhand penny books. Over the years we had Conrad and Wodehouse, Eric...family of Rose GambleJohn Jeffrey Farnol[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park: 16. IX. 31. Victor Alexander in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved.
'Meeting held at School House, Leighton P...		John L. Hawkins John L. Hawkins[A paper on the natural history of the neighbourho...Manuscript: NotebookUnknown
1700-1799'W[ordsworth] copied a set of extracts from Buchanan into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book [Dove Cottage MS 26] ... probably between mid-March and 10 June 1807.'William Wordsworth John Lanne BuchananTravels in the Western Hebrides, 1782 to 1790Print: Book
1700-1799"amused myself with looking over Cowley's Geometrical Plates - the different Problems of Euclid are drawn upon Pasteboard Paper & cut so that you may lift them up & see t...Mary Hamilton John Lodge Cowley?[An Appendix to the Elements of Euclid]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Peru and Mexico and The French Revolution. Academic cr...Jack Lawson John Lothrop MotleyThe Rise of the Dutch RepublicPrint: Book
1850-1899'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's oppression of the Netherlands, and gave as its source,...John Paton John Lothrop MotleyThe Rise of the Dutch RepublicPrint: Book
1850-1899'We are reading Motley's last, - much surprised not to like it better. It is so diffuse and sinks so very low in its Carlylisms &c.'Harriet Martineau John Lothrop MotleyCauses of the Civil War in America [probably]Print: Pamphlet
1900-1945MS annotations and marginal marks incl. v.1 p.503, in reply to the author's comment "we must now throw a glance to the external", Sir George writes: "High time that you d...George Otto Trevelyan John Lothrop MotleyHistory of the United NetherlandsPrint: Book


Go to page: [1]   1017 1018 1019 1020 1021  1022  1023 1024 1025 1026 1027   [1526]



  

Click check box to select all entries on this page:

 

OU logo
   
AHRC logo
   
Green Turtle Web Design