√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1900-1945 'A young middle class man comes and sits on a seat nearby, and reads a book. Behind the rank on the top people are sitting. Noone seems very interested in the soldiers. T... unknown [book] Print : Book1600-1699 'Then by linke home - and there to my book awhile and to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [book] Print : Book1600-1699 'Then home - I to read.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [book] Print : Book1600-1699 'Then to reading and at night to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [book] Print : Book1900-1945 'Let me say that the things that first made me love language and want to work [italics] in [end italics] it and [italics] for [end italics] it were nursery rhymes and fol... Dylan Thomas [Border Ballads] Print : Book1700-1799 'I read much, collected Extracts & translated Latin Books of physic with a view of double improvement; I studied the Materia Medica, & made some progress in Botany; I dis... George Crabbe [botany books] Print : Book1850-1899 'Joseph Keating read little but boys' magazines and 3d thrillers until he stumbled across Greek philosophy. He was particularly struck by the Greek precept 'Know thyself'... Joseph Keating [boys' magazines] Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 '[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "Then, without scarcely a bridge-passage, I was deep i... Neville Cardus n/a [boys' papers] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'George Scott left school and the boys' weeklies behind at fifteen: in barely a year he had absorbed enough Shaw, Wells, Dos Passos and (secondhand) Marx to lecture his p... George Scott [unknown] [boys' weeklies] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 9th. July 1945 Bruce Dilks Bruce Dilks, or another member of the XII Book Club [Brains Trust question on whether party politics ... Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 9th. July 1945 Bruce Dilks Bruce Dilks, or another member of the XII Book Club [Brains Trust question on astrology] Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 9th. July 1945 Bruce Dilks Bruce Dilks, or another member of the XII Book Club [Brains Trust question on inventions and their ben... Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 9th. July 1945 Bruce Dilks Bruce Dilks, or another member of the XII Book Club [Brains Trust question on meals] Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at 72 Shinfield Road Monday 23rd Feb. 1942. A. G. Joselin in the
Chair Arnold Joselin [Unidentified member of the XII Book Club (edited by a committee of the club)] [Brains trust question on natural history] Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 9th. July 1945 Bruce Dilks Bruce Dilks, or another member of the XII Book Club [Brains Trust question on Perspex] Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 9th. July 1945 Bruce Dilks Bruce Dilks, or another member of the XII Book Club [Brains Trust question on the claim that ‘Whom the... Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at 72 Shinfield Road Monday 23rd Feb. 1942. A. G. Joselin in the Chair Arnold Joselin [Unidentified member of the XII Book Club (edited by a committee of the club)] [Brains trust question on the criteria of classic ... Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at 72 Shinfield Road Monday 23rd Feb. 1942. A. G. Joselin in the
Chair Arnold Joselin [Unidentified member of the XII Book Club (edited by a committee of the club)] [Brains trust question on the desirability of an i... Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 9th. July 1945 Bruce Dilks Bruce Dilks, or another member of the XII Book Club [Brains Trust question on the effects of climate o... Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 9th. July 1945 Bruce Dilks Bruce Dilks, or another member of the XII Book Club [Brains Trust question on the microscopic creature... Manuscript : Unknown
