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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
 
1850-1899'A capital review of Inland Voyage in the New York Critic for June 2nd.'Robert Louis Stevenson [review of "Inland Voyage" in the "New York Critic...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'For hour after hour we did "Search the Scriptures". These were booklets in which texts from a book in the Bible were printed with blank spaces; we were to fill in the ch...Wilfred Ruprecht Bion Search the ScripturesPrint: Pamphlet
1900-1945'Not having frequented a club before I was at first enchanted by the number and variety of the newspapers and magazines, but soon found them spiritually a diet of hors d'...Ronald Storrs The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Not having frequented a club before I was at first enchanted by the number and variety of the newspapers and magazines, but soon found them spiritually a diet of hors d'...Ronald Storrs La Vie ParisiennePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I found a deskful of old letters which I had quite forgotten ... It is a sad feeling in reading old letters that I have no one to sympathise in such old memories.'Emma Darwin [letters]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Strong breeze and weather agreeable so far from Karachi. Green's "History", Macaulay, Ruskin, "Oxford Book [of English Verse]" and Horace every day.'Ronald Storrs The Oxford Book of English VersePrint: Book
1900-1945'Towards evening the General [George McMunn] lent me "Blackwood's Centenary", in which I read twice, with eager disappointment, Charles Whibley's tribute to H. C. [Storrs...Ronald Storrs Blackwood's Magazine Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Some "Vie Parisiennes" heartened me, and I needed it, for not one line yet to hand from Europe or Cairo — a cruel and needless privation.'Ronald Storrs La Vie ParisiennePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Weak and tired and inclined as always when out of action and interest, to go to pieces. Read, after twenty years, Merriman's miserable "[The] Sowers", Psalms and John ii...Ronald Storrs The BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, L. P. : 13.9.35
    Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.

[...]

7. We then listened to a nu...		Victor Alexander DominiquePrint: Book
1900-1945'So we lay all day in the rolling swell, fair in the blast of the dried fish; reading John vii, Odyssey xxiv, a mutilated copy of "Middlemarch" and late man pages of the ...Ronald Storrs The Oxford Book of English VersePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue:- 1.12.36
    C. E. Stansfield in the Chair
1. Minutes of last read + approved
4. The Secret...		Dorothea Taylor [Quennells]
1900-1945'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue:- 1.12.36
    C. E. Stansfield in the Chair
1. Minutes of last read + approved
4. The Secret...		Alfred Rawlings [the story of Hervé Riel]
1900-1945

Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.

Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved


[...]

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Mary E. Robson First Book of Samuel, chapter 28 [The Witch of End...Print: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.

Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved


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Howard Smith Trials for WitchcraftUnknown
1900-1945Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Irish Literature were then given as follows:-
C. E...		Howard Smith [a story about an illicit still]Unknown
1900-1945'With Cockerell to Parkstone to see Alfred Russel Wallace, the Grand Old Man of Science ... He complimented me on my pamphlet, "The Shame of the XIXth Century" and expres...Alfred Russel Wallace LightPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'It is really remarkable how oblivious we are to what is going on overseas. There is very little in the papers about the British Army, even if we had time to read them, a...Douglas Herbert Bell  Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Back to the front line, taking over a stretch of our own, which shows the Staff trusts us ... Some papers came by post - just what I want here.'Douglas Herbert Bell  Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Made a very successful raisin rice pudding over a charcoal brazier. This is War; a straw-strewn barn, heaps of periodicals, a glowing brazier, puddings, and plenty.'Douglas Herbert Bell  Print: Serial / periodical


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