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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
 
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: George Martin: 'Q. You saw Martin leave the box and go to get the newspapers? A. Yes, she went to the opposite box—she did not go d...Ellen Martin [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: John Scott: 'about one o'clock in the day on the 1st of May, I was in the French Horn reading the newspaper'John Scott [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: George Patterson: 'Q. What were you doing there? A. I was reading the newspaper'George Patterson [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for wounding: George Rogers: 'it was quite by accident I saw this affair in the newspaper, which made me attend here'George Rogers [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: Henry Theodore James: 'I did not go before the Magistrate on this matter—I saw in the newspaper that the prisoner was before the M...Henry Theodore James [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: Henry Childs: 'Turner sat down, and fell asleep—Grimes sat near him, and seemed asleep too—Collins was on the other side of the sho...Thomas Collins [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for treason: George Davis: 'Q. How came you to alter your mind? A. Through reading the newspaper this morning, and seeing the character the wi...George Davis [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: George Dawson: 'Campbell was in my house on that Saturday, from three to four o'clock—he read the newspaper—he said he had been to...Joseph Campbell [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for deception: Thomas Holmman: 'I afterwards saw an account in the newspaper of the prisoner's examination, in conesquence of which I went to...Thomas Holmman [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: George Gordon Chitlock: 'both these bags were in the booking-office—the prisoner came to take his ticket some time after the prosec...Samuel Game [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: Richard James: 'I put the key of the cupboard into my pocket, and went to the public-house—I looked at a newspaper to see what Con...Richard James [n/a][newspaper]Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for murder: Richard John Moxey: '[Manning] said, "Is the wretch taken?"—I said I did not know, 1 believed so from what I had seen in the news...Richard John Moxey [n/a][newspaper]Print: 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‘Thanks very much for the papers. I liked the article on the Somme Cinemas; of course Chesterton on Zangwill was nearer home; but C seems sly and certainly anti Jewis...Isaac Rosenberg [newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'After lunch read the Paper & wrote some letters.'Verena Pennefather n/a n/a[newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'12 pm A new English submarine came in. By morning papers the French had won a great victory, Belgium was still holding out, while we had seized German West Africa....Leslie Richard Romer [n/a] [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'During my sojourn on the Rio Negro letters and papers reached me only at rare intervals. On one occasion I passed nearly two months without seeing a newspaper. I r...William Henry Hudson [n/a] [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'I often go to see poor Bob who seems to me dying and it is a good thing to attend a person in that situation. I think the more one sees of the different states of human ...Elizabeth Gurney [n/a][New] TestamentPrint: Book
1700-1799'After reading to poor Bob which was a cross to me because some one was present I wrote this.'Elizabeth Gurney [n/a][New] TestamentPrint: Book
1700-1799'in the afternoon I laid down had a very sweet nap which I did enjoy - read in the Testament ... I then went and read the Testament to Nurse Norman's family which answere...Elizabeth Gurney [n/a][New] TestamentPrint: Book


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