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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'Made several friends among visitors. The two who were in charge of the Women's Red Cross Branch were Irish and on finding that I too belonged to the same spot became ver...James Coffey unknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'11 a.m. Take "snap" of Sr. [sister] Murphy in Red Cross Toga. Read for an hour.' James Coffey unknownUnknown
1900-1945'Another sweltering day. News in the paper of a great air raid on London in which 80 people have been killed and several hundreds wounded. Apparently all the German plane...Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson unknownPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'There was unpleasant news in the paper. The Bolsheviks have made peace with the Central Powers and so now all Russia is at peace, and a regular war flame is running thro...Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson unknownPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The paper very full of Sir W. Robertson's resignation though the reason and details are still a mystery. The most remarkable news was that Germany has declared war again...Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson unknownPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Another big push in to-day's paper on a 30-mile front from Morlancourt, south of Arras, right down to Lihons.'Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson unknownPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Went for a long run this afternoon; tonight I am "lazing" in front of a fire with a pipe, a book, and two or three friends.'Douglas Herbert Bell unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'We breakfasted with Miss Seymour; 36 and, after writing and reading, we started at a quarter to eleven with her and our Highland party.'Queen Victoria unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'A misty, rainy morning. Had not slept very soundly. We got up rather early, and sat working and reading in the drawing-room till the breakfast was ready, for which we ha...Queen Victoria unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'We sat till half-past ten working, and Albert reading, — and then retired to rest.'Prince Albert unknownunknownPrint: Poster, Unknown
1800-1849'Albert went into Dublin again after luncheon, and I wrote and read, and heard our children say some lessons.'Queen Victoria unknownunknownPrint: Poster, Unknown
1800-1849'I never saw our good children looking better, or in higher spirits. I contrived to give Vicky a little lesson, by making her read in her English history.' Princess Victoria unknownunknownPrint: Book, Poster
1900-1945'I have been happier lately. [The other soldiers] have not called me "College" for a long time, and they do not interfere when I try to read.'Reginald Hugh Kiernan unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'In afternoon Linder and I went to AVESNES to buy books and wine. Home by a very swift French car which put the wind up us both.'Martin Wentworth Littlewood unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday, 7 April Hand nearly well. Get out any afternoon, hospital blue, overcoat. Picture-house or library, concerts. Food here very good, plenty of books. Expecting to ...William Fisher unknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday, 20 June[.] Well-earned day off. Slept like the dead. Afternoon bath and change. Then lounge with an old paper. We are not allowed to leave camp.'William Fisher unknownPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Friday, 25 June[.] Raining, and we are sheltering in dugouts in the trenches we are repairing. Been out six weeks now under shellfire more or less the whole time; to wor...William Fisher unknownUnknown
1900-1945'Writing in the seventh number (April 1924) of his new magazine Criterion, Eliot declared that the late "militarist by faith" T. E. Hulme "appears as the forerunner of a ...Thomas Ernest HulmeunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sun. As usual. Walking Round and Reading.'William Thomas unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I had very little leisure time to lie with mother but read in the evening.'Anne Jenkins unknown unknownunknownUnknown


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