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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
 
1900-1945'750 miles due E. of Ascension Island. Wireless Reuters as usual. America in State of War. W. drive still continues. Close on St. Quentin ... Finished Stitt's Tropical Di...Albert Ruskin Cook [Reuters cables]Manuscript: Letter, telegram
1900-1945'We were always allowed to take in the German newspapers, and for a short time by the courtesy of a highly placed gentleman, a few copies of The Times and some ill...Lorimer John Austin TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'We were always allowed to take in the German newspapers, and for a short time by the courtesy of a highly placed gentleman, a few copies of The Times and some ill...Lorimer John Austin [German newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'We were always allowed to take in the German newspapers, and for a short time by the courtesy of a highly placed gentleman, a few copies of The Times and some ill...Lorimer John Austin [Illustrated English newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
[...]
Minor Horrors of present war.
Staying the Plague – Harman
Military Orthopedics – Jones
...		Albert Ruskin Cook Practitioner, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
[...]
B. General.
Hist.y of our own Times. '85–11. Gooch
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Felix Holt – [G...		Albert Ruskin Cook Encyclopedia BrittanicaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read and looked at Joe's Bible after Kirk. Bed v.tired.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'I spent all the morning in my office in the barn at Battalion H.Q. writing up my official War Diary, writing a card home, reading the French Paper and doing some strengt...Thomas Stafford Wollocombe [French newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Several French soldiers were reading newspapers. I asked one to get me one. He gave me his and when I offered him a "sou", there was a regular chorus from all his pals o...Thomas Stafford Wollocombe [French newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I was very soon interrupted by a sergeant of the Royal Fusiliers, who brought me a message ... from their C.O. to ours. He stumbled over the pillow (the baggage end of m...Thomas Stafford Wollocombe [Hand-written communique]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Saw promotion to Captain in Gazette.'Thomas Stafford Wollocombe London GazettePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Set the night working parties on their job. Got the paper — no news.'Thomas Stafford Wollocombe unknownPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham, Northcourt Avenue. 13th Sept. 1940
    Howard R. Smith in the Chair.
[...]
7. F. E. Pollard commenced t...		Muriel Stevens The CountrymanPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham, Northcourt Avenue. 13th Sept. 1940
Howard R. Smith in the Chair.
[...]
7. F. E. Pollard commenced the main business of the...		Muriel Stevens The CountrymanPrint: Book
1900-1945'It was a bad night — a high gale and rain. Wallace had ridden into Amiens and brought back a paper. The Germans have retired on a front of eighty-two miles and no one kn...Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson [?French newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I saw a Daily Mail in the evening. The Germans are gone back on an 82-mile front, extending from Arras in the north to a good bit below us here in the south ... W...Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson Daily MailPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I came back in the afternoon ... and had a nice service for the Column in one of the huts close by. We carried the piano over from the mess. No news from the front much ...Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson [newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Hilliers”, Northcourt Avenue. 18.XI.40
    Rosamund Wallis in the chair.

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4. Roger Moore gave us a biographical s...		Roger Moore Book of RuthPrint: Book
1900-1945'President Wilson made a really magnificent speech, reported in yesterday's Times. War now only awaits Congress assent—a foregone conclusion. He calls for the mobi...Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'We had a beautiful service and a celebration afterwards. Just as I was packing up we heard a crackling overhead and, on looking up, saw a plane come tearing down on fire...Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson ?Sunday TimesPrint: Newspaper


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