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

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Many thanks for the cuttings on higher criticism. I can't help thinking that this movement is larely the result of trying to reduce (as I tried to do a few days ago!) C...Donald William Alers Hankey Brooke Foss Westcott[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Don't worry about me; at last I am a serious soldier. I have a pile of books on ordnance, and gunnery, and ammunition, and explosives etc., etc., littering my table, to...Donald William Alers Hankey [unknown][essay on rifling]Print: Book
1900-1945'Reading the ordinary papers occasionally, listening to the B.B.C. news sometimes, reading the Left wing papers sometimes, and trying to sort out the wheat from the chaff... [n/a][Left-wing newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'"Manchester Guardian". English news once a day. Lord Haw-Haw, conversations with as may people as possible, reading on international questions. From these sources I sort... [n/a]Manchester GuardianPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I am forming my opinions mainly from what I read in books on economies, politics, history, etc. I read the daily papers, but I do not take a lot of notice of what I read...C E M Joad[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I am forming my opinions mainly from what I read in books on economies, politics, history, etc. I read the daily papers, but I do not take a lot of notice of what I read...H G Wells[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I am forming my opinions mainly from what I read in books on economies, politics, history, etc. I read the daily papers, but I do not take a lot of notice of what I read...A Huxley[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I'm very amused reading in the paper about the trains yesterday. (reads): "Many trains had to run in duplicate and triplicate to accomodate the crowds." After all they s... [n/a][Newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'There was little time left before supper, and we decided to go for short walk to have a look at the moon. This done, we sat down for a modest and simple meal of a little... [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Exhilarated with a terrible sadness, after reading "Arise to Conquer", I wondered if, when young men have done with the fighting and can come forward to do some of the t... [unknown]Arise to conquerPrint: Book
1900-1945'When I realised that war made people around me feel hatred for their kinsmen (by which I mean mankind). People say they wish for peace, but are quite prepared to put a m...Dick Sheppard[article in News Chronicle]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Another lovely day: almost too hot to do anything. I've been depressed all day after reading Churchill's speech. It's a grim thought that in the event of an invasion the...Winston Churchill[speech]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'The leaflet makes a special point of common sense but the way it urges people to use it is unconsciously the upper class talking to the stupid mass. This unconscious att...Ministry of Information [invasion leaflet]Print: Pamphlet
1900-1945'And a housewife, after reading it, says she is satisfied the she has done everything and knows everything that can be done in civil defence: "We've got enough, I mean, w...Ministry of Information invasion leafletPrint: Pamphlet
1900-1945'I was absolutely horrified about the Italians, the way they took revenge on Mussolini. I can't imagine what we're fighting for, if that's the way the Anti-Fascists behav... [n/a][Newspaper: Article on Mussolini's death]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'There was a wonderful account in the "Daily Worker" of Mussolini's death, how he was shot in the head and his brain spattered out, and he looked awful, but his mistress ... [n/a][Daily Worker: Article on Mussolini's death]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I heard that peace was declared on May the 7th, about 7 or 8 o'clock in the evening, at home with my parents. We had not long finished dinner, the table was still set, m... [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'(after reading story): " I see what he (Kennedy) means. The government's all Labour at the moment except Mr. Churchill. What he means to say is that the Premier will be ... Kennedy[unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'I have dreamt of Hitler twice recently, I put this down [to] reading books in the international situation rather than to anxiety or worry. I do not consciously worry abo... [unknown][works/news on Hitler and Nazi-Germany]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'I had been reading Mary Border's book "Passport for a girl" and the day following my dream, I was interested to read in Page 201 describing the Austrian Anschluss, how o...Mary BorderPassport for a girlPrint: Book


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