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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
 
1850-1899'Left at 10.40 Frontier 12.15, lunch Belfort 12.40 where I got "Lourdes" and read it with wild interest all the rest of the way. Tea at Nancy. Reims 7.30.' Gertrude Bell unknown unknownLourdes [...]Print: Book
1850-1899'I went up to the Musee this morning and read a Persian life of Hafez with a Latin crib. I think I got at the meaning of it with the help of a Persian dictionary, but a L...Gertrude Bell unknown unknown[Biography of Hafiz]Print: Book
1850-1899'Florence [Lascelles] the Marshalls and I went to the [Berlin] National Gallery to see the modern pictures. It was most interesting because I had been reading about moder...Gertrude Bell unknown unknownunknownPrint: Unknown, presumably book, exhibition catalogue or periodical
1850-1899'Fog in the early morning, sun came out after lunch. Quite chilly. Read Arabic and "Les Misérables".' Gertrude Bell unknown unknown[Arabic texts]Print: Book
1850-1899'All day we sailed along an absolutely barren coast. A tiny fringe of green along the sand and then great mts with nothing but brown scrub upon them. It sometimes doesn't...Gertrude Bell unknown unknown[novel in Spanish]Print: Book
1850-1899'Very foggy; raw and cold all morning; the sun came out a little after lunch, but it was still cold. Wrapped myself in fur cloaks and rugs and sat on deck reading novels....Gertrude Bell unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'After lunch, finished a book on Hawaii Mr W[alford] lent me.' Gertrude Bell unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'A motor bicycle drew up at our door and a haggard dispatch rider stumbled in to put a scrap of paper into my hand. It was a page torn out of an army notebook with a scri...Barclay Josiah Baron unknown unknownunknownManuscript: Letter, Pencilled note on a page torn out of an army notebook.
1900-1945'Well I am getting on topping: today we have been on a brigade field day round a place called "The Devils Punch bowl" It's a piece of land about 3 miles round the top. Th...Albert Edward Mortlock French unknown unknownunknownManuscript: Engraved stone.
1900-1945'Well I am getting on topping: today we have been on a brigade field day round a place called "The Devils Punch bowl" It's a piece of land about 3 miles round the top. Th...Albert Edward Mortlock French unknown unknownunknownManuscript: Milestone.
1900-1945'Our Adjutant told us the history of the 1st K.R.R [King's Royal Rifles] in this war, by a diary from one of their officers. They got on fine until they went into action ...Albert Edward Mortlock French unknown unknown[officer's diary]Manuscript: Codex
1900-1945'Soldiers who have been out here 6 months can speak French, and some of the French can speak English perfectly. I can speak just a little French now. In most of the Y.M.C...Albert Edward Mortlock French unknown unknownunknownPrint: NewspaperManuscript: Codex
1900-1945'The papers are eagerly read, of course, and small groups constantly gather outside the newspaper offices to read the cablegrams which are also put up for passers-by to s...unknown unknownunknownPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'We missed news more than anything else, there was a notice board in the court yard and we got the German version on that, needless to say this was not very satisfying.'J. P. Lynch unknown unknownunknownPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'When we were allowed to write post cards home on the 6th Oct 1914 (first time) Frau Braun [wife of the German camp commander] did the censoring, and as the Frau was not ...unknown unknown[Post cards written by officer POWs]Manuscript: Letter, Postcards
1900-1945'... we got no news at Göttingen except from scraps of English papers which came in parcels, the Göttingen paper was one of the worst in Germany, and we did not take it ...J. P. Lynch unknown unknown[scraps of English newspapers]Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter, Postcards
1900-1945'We are getting together a good library of 1 franc English books.'Harold Upcott unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Yesterday afternoon as I was lying reading in my hut the C.O. came in and told me I had to go to Warloy (behind Albert) to relieve the surgeon specialist.'Harold Upcott unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'Made my head ache reading + went to bed early.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook unknown unknownunknownPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Paid Laundress and Daily Mail ... Elsie at ź to six. Supper at 7.15. Read + worked. Bed 9.10.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook unknown unknownunknownUnknown


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