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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Tuesday, 9th March, Club ? ?Currency and Unemployment? - Arthur Robinson. The finest lecture of the year. Mr. Robinson gave an introductory explanation of money and...Gerald Moore Jonathan SwiftJournal to StellaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday, 14th March, Discussion Group ? ?Stunt? rehearsal. Also 1st rehearsal of ?Good Friday? which will draw half our members. Reading ?Hamlet" ? the first time I h...Gerald Moore William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wednesday, 17th March, Last rehearsal. Things are in trim now I think. I prepared the programme. I think it O. K. though the humour is hardly my line ? ?De Heiny ...Gerald Moore Jonathan SwiftJournal to StellaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday, 22nd March, Read ? ?The eye ? witness? (H. Belloc).' Gerald Moore Hilaire BellocThe Eye-WitnessPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Wednesday, 24th March, Today would have been deadly dull but for the Lincoln. Queer how so many of us get caught up in these periodical excitements. I neither know a...Gerald Moore Joseph ConradAlmayer's FollyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday, 28th March, Discussion Group ? annual meeting. Read ? ?Tartarin sur les Alpes? (Daudet).'Gerald Moore Alphonse DaudetTartarin sur les AlpesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday, 29th March, A 21st birthday party at the Roberts?. Pleaded illness and got off. My clothes will hardly do. Bought Ira ?Far from the Madding Crowd?. Wrote A...Gerald Moore Edmond HolmesThe Tragedy of EducationPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tuesday, 30th March, Club ? Annual meeting. All officers re-elected except Will Evans who stood down. The Players are taking up all his time. Bal. Lear takes his pla...Gerald Moore Honore de BalzacLa Peau de ChagrinPrint: Book
1900-1945'Friday, 2nd April, Walking over the Walton Hall Housing Estate. The spread of the city goes on apace. I find myself hoping that someday the grass will grow again ov...Gerald Moore Robert SoutheyLife of NelsonPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday, 5th April, I am cast for Amieus in ?As you like it?. I was looking over my script today. Not very much but nice. ?Under the Greenwood Tree? and ?Blow, blow t...Gerald Moore William ShakespeareAs you Like itPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wednesday, 7th April, Spent the evening writing. Cutting my cigarettes to one if it has any bearing on my ill-health. Read ? ?Journal of the Plague Year? (Defoe)'. Gerald Moore Daniel DefoeJournal of the Plague YearPrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday, 11th April, Mother is still rather poorly. Dad has been before the beaks ! Short weight. The unchanging Dad. Clean forgets to send the wagon over the wei...Gerald Moore J.B. PriestleyFigures in Modern LiteraturePrint: Book
1900-1945'Tuesday, 13th April, Madge intending to call, decided to go to the Settlement to see Algy and his players. The rehearsal fell through however owing to the Settlement b...Gerald Moore William Makepeace ThackerayEnglish Humourists of the Eighteenth CenturyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wednesday, 21st April, Re my songs - I might do worse than listen in to the Shakespeare celebrations broadcast on Friday. I might get an idea from the London highbro...Gerald Moore unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday, 20th May The office has returned, for its diversion, to County Cricket and the Tests. Pat is an inexhaustible treasury of lore and anecdote on the subject. ...Gerald Moore Manchester GuardianPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Friday 28th May The Lloyd George ? Asquith split is a few days old now and it is easy to see that Lloyd George has come out on top. The ?Guardian? ?. ?New Statesman? ...Gerald Moore Manchester GuardianPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Friday 28th May The Lloyd George ? Asquith split is a few days old now and it is easy to see that Lloyd George has come out on top. The ?Guardian? ?. ?New Statesman? ...Gerald Moore New StatesmanPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Thursday 3rd June ?Our Mr Wrenn? (Sinclair Lewis) I feel crushed with the amount of spare time work I have on hand but life is nothing without the fight. I feel I a...Gerald Moore Sinclair LewisOur Mr WrennPrint: Book
1900-1945'Friday 4th June ?Martin Arrowsmith? (Sinclair Lewis). How many of my own questionings, disillusionments and hungerings are illustrated in this book. It has given me...Gerald Moore Sinclair LewisMartin ArrowsmithPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday 20th June ? Short History of the World? - (H.G. Wells)'.Gerald Moore H.G. WellsShort History of the WorldPrint: Book


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