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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'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convict preparatory to going to Parkhurst, I was able, thr...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Gustav Fechner[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convict preparatory to going to Parkhurst, I was able, thr...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Rudolph Hermann Lotze[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'It was about noon, and the officers had all gone home to their dinners, when, as I sat on my stool munching my loaf and reading Boswell's "Life of Dr Johnson", I heard a...James BoswellLife of JohnsonPrint: Book
1900-1945From letter to Eleanor M. Sewell reproduced in [italics]The Autobiography of Elizabeth Missing Sewell[end italics], written by 'M.H.', a former pupil of Elizabeth Sewell'...M. H. The GentlewomanPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945`My dear Watson: Who would have supposed that I should write to thank you for your considerateness in sending the Ode, in such circumstances as the present. If the ...Thomas Hardy William WatsonOde on the Day of the Coronation of King Edward VI...Print: Unknown, Probably a pamphlet or book
1900-1945'I'm reading "A Son at the Front" in book form. The wife reads serials in magazines which I don't.'Rudyard Kipling Edith WhartonA Son at the FrontPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have the Daily Mail and the News of the World for sport. They're getting a bit better than they were, but they're still a bit poor. Yes, I should like to see more spor... Daily MailPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I have the Daily Mail and the News of the World for sport. They're getting a bit better than they were, but they're still a bit poor. Yes, I should like to see more spor... News of the worldPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'A master's debate at school set me thinking, and I decided for myself as far as I could at that age. At 16 I joined the Under Thirty movement where I heard a debate on P...Dick ShepherdunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'A master's debate at school set me thinking, and I decided for myself as far as I could at that age. At 16 I joined the Under Thirty movement where I heard a debate on P...Aldous HuxleyEncyclopaedia of pacifismPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read it three times, and I can't make head or tail of it. Doesn't seem nothing in it somehow.'Adolf Hitler[a speech]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'She is a woman of the artisan class, aged about 35. She was dressed in a brown coat with a fur collar, and had a scarf on her head. With her she brought two blankets, tw... unknownunknownPrint: Book, Unknown
1900-1945'A study was made on Armistice Day reactions, comparable to those made in previous years. Even at the Cenotaph there was only a low degree of interest, and in Westminster...[a priest] anon unknownprayerPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Thanks for the book. You know what I think of it in so far as I have been able to express it. I did not do it very well. There is a singular fascination about this last ...Joseph Conrad Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)The Fifth Queen Crowned
1900-1945'Well, I've only read the Telegraph, and I don't like it. Everything is contradicted later.' TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I have read the four PIL which we have had. They seem to give all the information required accurately and clearly, but sometimes they have tried to put things too cl... Ministry of Informationpublic information leafletsPrint: Pamphlet
1900-1945'Two books I remember reading at one sitting are "Dr. Syn" and "The return of Dr. Syn" (Russell Thorndyke), these I read straight off, mainly because I could not take my ...Russell ThorndykeDr SynPrint: Book
1900-1945'Two books I remember reading at one sitting are "Dr. Syn" and "The return of Dr. Syn" (Russell Thorndyke), these I read straight off, mainly because I could not take my ...Russell ThorndykeThe return of Dr. SynPrint: Book
1900-1945'I slept a little and next morning being Friday amused myself in bed with the Times, the Daily Herald, the New Statesman and Nation, the Times Literary Supplement (which ...Cyril Lionel Robert James newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'It appeareth to me that you have attempted the impossible in 'The Secret City'. Therefore be not surprised if I think you have not achieved the same.' Arnold Bennett Hugh WalpoleThe Secret CityPrint: Book


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