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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'Shrapnel and pieces of shell were falling all about us and we expected every minute to be our last ... It was a rotten half hour ... During this bombardment a London ...Horace Bruckshaw London TelegramPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Thank you very much for sending me the papers — it's a treat to read some B'ham news and know what's going on in Brum.'Bernard Wilfrid Long Birmingham Daily PostPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I am sending you a cutting out of the "Daily Telegraph" of Aug 30th containing the London Gazette wherein I am transferred to a Service Battalion and taken off probation...Bernard Wilfrid Long Daily TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'A dead man, just reported to me lying close by. Went out and found (from his identity disc) he was No. 8863, B West, Suffolk Regiment. Lying with his overcoat tied over ...Gerald Achilles Burgoyne [soldier's identity disc]Manuscript: Stamped identity disc
1900-1945'We got up and 9 am surrounded by the females of the farm who were in the kitchen. I in my pyjamas. However, I hid behind the table when I dressed. I just read a ridiculo...Gerald Achilles Burgoyne Daily MailPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Talking of the necessity for the censoring of letters ... I find quite a number of the men writing absolute lies about the danger they go through; and their extraordinar...Gerald Achilles Burgoyne [letters of men in the Royal Irish Rifles]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'We see some funny things when we are censoring our men's letters. One hero wrote home "We are fighting every day" ... One man was pathetically quaint: "Christmas Day we ...Gerald Achilles Burgoyne [letters of men in the Royal Irish Rifles]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Rarely do the men write of their life out here; too illiterate; most of the letters are confined to remarks on their own health; questions to the welfare of those at hom...Gerald Achilles Burgoyne [letters of men in the Royal Irish Rifles]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Life in Hospital You chiefly occupy your time a) sucking thermometers b) sleeping (if able) c) eating or drinking d) reading. I may add that the sleeping part was...James Coffey unknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Made several friends among visitors. The two who were in charge of the Women's Red Cross Branch were Irish and on finding that I too belonged to the same spot became ver...James Coffey unknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Made several friends among visitors. The two who were in charge of the Women's Red Cross Branch were Irish and on finding that I too belonged to the same spot became ver...James Coffey Irish ExaminerPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Made several friends among visitors. The two who were in charge of the Women's Red Cross Branch were Irish and on finding that I too belonged to the same spot became ver...James Coffey Killarney EchoPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'11 a.m. Take "snap" of Sr. [sister] Murphy in Red Cross Toga. Read for an hour.' James Coffey unknownUnknown
1900-1945'The paper boy came outside the lines soon after breakfast and there in the Mail was my name "mentioned in dispatches." I couldn't help feeling delighted.'Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson Daily MailPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Another sweltering day. News in the paper of a great air raid on London in which 80 people have been killed and several hundreds wounded. Apparently all the German plane...Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson unknownPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'There was more definite news in The Times to-day of the Cambrai victory.' Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I went to the Divisional canteen which is close by, and made arrangements with them about supplying tea and sugar for my recreation room. Thence home. Details of the bat...Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'So home to read in The Times the startling news that the Russians under Lenin, a revolutionary, are beginning preliminary negotiations towards peace. Really the o...Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'There was unpleasant news in the paper. The Bolsheviks have made peace with the Central Powers and so now all Russia is at peace, and a regular war flame is running thro...Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson unknownPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The paper very full of Sir W. Robertson's resignation though the reason and details are still a mystery. The most remarkable news was that Germany has declared war again...Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson unknownPrint: Newspaper


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