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1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 9th. July 1945
A. Bruce Dilks in the chair

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6. The rest of the evening took the form of a ...
Bruce Dilks Bruce Dilks, or another member of the XII Book Club [Brains Trust question on the proposition that hum...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 9th. July 1945
A. Bruce Dilks in the chair

[...]

6. The rest of the evening took the form of a ...
Bruce Dilks Bruce Dilks, or another member of the XII Book Club [Brains Trust question on water divining]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 9th. July 1945
A. Bruce Dilks in the chair

[...]

6. The rest of the evening took the form of a ...
Bruce Dilks Bruce Dilks, or another member of the XII Book Club [Brains Trust question on what earns a man the rep...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 9th. July 1945
A. Bruce Dilks in the chair

[...]

6. The rest of the evening took the form of a ...
Bruce Dilks Bruce Dilks, or another member of the XII Book Club [Brains Trust question on when might has triumphed...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 9th. July 1945
A. Bruce Dilks in the chair

[...]

6. The rest of the evening took the form of a ...
Bruce Dilks Bruce Dilks, or another member of the XII Book Club [Brains Trust question on whether hereditary monar...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 9th. July 1945
    A. Bruce Dilks in the chair

[...]

6. The rest of the evening...
Bruce Dilks Bruce Dilks, or another member of the XII Book Club [Brains Trust question on whether it should be a p...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 9th. July 1945
A. Bruce Dilks in the chair

[...]

6. The rest of the evening took the form of a ...
Bruce Dilks Bruce Dilks, or another member of the XII Book Club [Brains Trust question on whether punishment is a ...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 9th. July 1945
A. Bruce Dilks in the chair

[...]

6. The rest of the evening took the form of a ...
Bruce Dilks Bruce Dilks, or another member of the XII Book Club [Brains Trust question on whether white lies can b...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 9th. July 1945
    A. Bruce Dilks in the chair

[...]

6. The rest of the evening...
Bruce Dilks Bruce Dilks, or another member of the XII Book Club [Brains Trust questions on pigeons, cats, and cuck...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945I have been studying the little pamphlet [on the Arabs] in the train and feel that, though you have improved the language, the whole thing is so ineffective that it...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][British propaganda pamphlet (anti-Italian) in Ara...Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849
1850-1899
'Interview with a execution broadsheet seller visiting poor villages in Norfolk: 'Not long after Rush was hung, he saw, one evening after dark, through the uncurtained co... [broadsheet of Rush's execution]Print: Broadsheet
1900-1945'To bunk. Finished reading Aldington's brochure on Lawrence. A slight thing. Odds. Wrote home. Reading. Supper. Finished reading Book I of "Golden Treasury". Sisters and ...William Soutar Aldington[brochure on Lawrence]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'The bulletin of war news, posted up each morning outside the Kommandantur, boasted each day of the capture of countless Russian and French prisoners.' Ian Vivian Hay [bulletin of war news]Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Sheet
1850-189913 Mar 'This is written in bad light and the vessel heaving and rolling. Hicks is discovering sweet music on the accordeon. Luce is reading a bulletin 2 years old. Nosey...Luce [unknown][Bulletin]Unknown
1800-1849'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "Tatler", and some others of the "British Essayists"....Thomas Carter John Gay[burlesque 'pastorals']Print: Book
1700-1799'1: August 1779.] Johnson has been diverting himself with imitating Potter's Aeschylus in a translation of some verses of Euripides - he has translated them seriously bes...Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel Johnson[burlesque translation of Euripides in the manner ...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 21 February 1809: 'This morning I went to the [Middle] Temple to Mr. Lysons', to see some very ancient MSS. of the time of Henry IV., Edward IV., and...Mary Berry unknown[C14th-C15th manuscripts]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'My astonishment was very great at readind Canning's challenge to the anonymous pamphleteer. If it were the first proof of the kind it would be sufficient to create a gen...Sydney Smith George Canning[Canning's letter to newspapers attavking an anony...Print: Newspaper
1800-1849''4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also been swallowing autobiographies - Gifford's, Thomas Elw...John Mitchel Dean Swift[Captain Crichton's autobiography]Print: Book
1900-1945'The Life & works of Anatole France were then dealt with in an interesting programme - an appreciation by H.R. Smith Readings - Careers for Women - F. Ridges, - Crime de ...F. Ridges Anatole France[Careers for Women]Print: Book



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