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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'I spent hours, days, in the great Reading Room of the Mitchell Library. Young as I was, in my ragged shorts, frayed jersey and ill-fitting jacket, incongruous among the ...Ralph Glasser [n/a]Who's WhoPrint: Book
1900-1945'I spent hours, days, in the great Reading Room of the Mitchell Library. Young as I was, in my ragged shorts, frayed jersey and ill-fitting jacket, incongruous among the ...Ralph Glasser [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'A few weeks before my fourteenth birthday I read that Einstein was coming to Glasgow to address the university, and made up my mind to go and listen to him'.Ralph Glasser [n/a][announcement of Einstein talk]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'After I left school, the Mitchell became if possible even more important. I read widely, indiscriminately: the lives of the great philosophers and scientists, history an...Ralph Glasser [n/a]Encyclopaedia BritannicaPrint: Book
1900-1945'After I left school, the Mitchell became if possible even more important. I read widely, indiscriminately: the lives of the great philosophers and scientists, history an...Ralph Glasser [n/a][dictionaries]Print: Book
1900-1945'After I left school, the Mitchell became if possible even more important. I read widely, indiscriminately: the lives of the great philosophers and scientists, history an...Ralph Glasser [unknown][books of biography, history, philosophy, etc]Print: Book
1900-1945'Father was well read in politics and in the nineteenth century novelists, Dickens and Trollope being his favourites. But his reading nourished the sour scepticism that p...Mr Glasser Charles Dickens[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Father was well read in politics and in the nineteenth century novelists, Dickens and Trollope being his favourites. But his reading nourished the sour scepticism that p...Mr Glasser Anthony Trollope[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Father was well read in politics and in the nineteenth century novelists, Dickens and Trollope being his favourites. But his reading nourished the sour scepticism that p...Mr Glasser [unknown][books on politics]Print: Book
1900-1945'Press reports from Russia had an unreal quality, suggesting that observers did not dare believe the horror thinly concealed in what they saw. Enough filtered through.'Ralph Glasser [n/a][newspaper reports on Russia]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I found the letter when I got home about seven in the evening. While I read it I bolted my teas as usual. Then I read it again, a message from a distant planet, with its...Ralph Glasser [unknown][acceptance letter from Oxford University]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'With her shiny black apron she cleaned her Woolworth's spectacles, thick lenses in metal frames with wire side pieces, and read the letter, screwing up her eyes'.Rachel [unknown][Ralph Glasser's acceptance letter from Oxford Uni...Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Mins of last meeting were read & signed'Ernest E. Unwin Ernest E. Unwin[Minutes of XII Book Club]Manuscript: book
1900-1945'I went into the grey monastic quad of the Bodleian, the Old School quad, and read the legend in gold above each doorway, Scola Mathematica, Schola Physica - the sovereig...Ralph Glasser [n/a][inscriptions at the Bodleian library]Manuscript: Graffito
1900-1945'There was Hamish, confirmed practical joker, who donned stage make-up and a false beard and, pretending serious research, persuaded a member of the Bodleian staff to bri...Ralph Glasser John WilkesEssay on WomanManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'There was Hamish, confirmed practical joker, who donned stage make-up and a false beard and, pretending serious research, persuaded a member of the Bodleian staff to bri...Hamish John WilkesEssay on WomanPrint: Book
1900-1945'For most of my first term I rose at [5 a.m.] and bathed and shaved and dressed, and read till breakfast time - until neighbours compained about the noise I made in the e...Ralph Glasser [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'One day, alone for a moment in a girl's room in Lady Margaret Hall - she had gone to fetch a tea-pot from along the corridor - I saw that she had left her diary open, it...Ralph Glasser [unknown][a girl's diary]Manuscript: Codex
1900-1945'I marvelled that "The Road to Wigan Pier", to me naive, had made such a stir. I could think of nothing in it that was not obvious, but when I said so in the Cole Group i...Ralph Glasser George OrwellRoad to Wigan Pier, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I had worshipped Cole on the printed page, and my first sight of him in the flesh was fittingly magical.'Ralph Glasser G.D.H. Cole[unknown]Print: Book


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