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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'I've read so many descriptions in newspapers of the ruin and desolation caused in this war. Famous literary men have tried their powers of description and All (with th...Robert Lindsay Mackay Gilbert Frankau[unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945‘November 27 I have decided to make this diary my chief personal record of the war ... The chief drawback is – as I have found ever since I joined the press – that writi...Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean  Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Meant to go to church, but couldn't find it, so had a fine lazy day instead. Read Browning.'Robert Lindsay Mackay Robert BrowningThe Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barre...Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet
1900-1945'16th. October. Thrown out at Shorncliffe, above Folkestone. Very stormy day with heavy seas running. Informed that the boat would not cross today, so took an exceedingly...Robert Lindsay Mackay James Shirley'Death the Leveller'Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Bn. moved into Left sector. Macleod came back to "details" for a rest, and I went in as a/adjutant. Weather wet and cold. More "Strafes". Spent a very busy three days ...Robert Lindsay Mackay [n/a] [n/a][telegrams, letters, and reports]Manuscript: Letter, Sheet
1900-1945'Saw most exciting smash of an aeroplane against the buildings and tents of the 13th. Squadron R.F.C. Machine turned turtle and nose dived. Pilot unhurt. Am doing a fair ...Robert Lindsay Mackay Herbert George WellsAnn VeronicaPrint: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet
1900-1945'Sunday 17th. Am pretty sure I will get back to the Battalion soon. Went to St. Pol, had lunch, bought some books. Stopped a staff car, and got back to Aubigny for tea. S...Robert Lindsay Mackay Edward Verrall LucasMr. InglesidePrint: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet
1900-1945'April 1st. 1918. We came out of the line at night. Back to Arras. H.Q. in cellars in the Hotel de Ville, or Town Hall. Poor Arras! It is in a worse condition than ever...Robert Lindsay Mackay Henry JonesBrowning as a Philosophical and Religious TeacherPrint: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet
1900-1945'Tried stout for lunch. At 10 p.m. had stout and strawberries and cream given me (after it was dark) by two of the sisters. God bless them! "P.U.O." seems rather a good i...Robert Lindsay Mackay ['some novels']Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet
1900-1945'Grouped into platoons. Lectures. Finished "Soldier Poets".'Robert Lindsay Mackay Soldier Poets: Songs of the Fighting MenPrint: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet
1900-1945'F. E. Pollard gave a short introduction to the play of The Two Noble Kinsmen and in the ensuing reading took the part of Arcite Thos C Elliott taking Palamon and Mrs Eva...Francis Pollard William ShakespeareThe Two Noble Kinsmen
1900-1945

'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair

1 Minutes of the last read and approved


[...]

4 The Most Part...

Howard Smith Howard Smith[Minutes/report of the meeting held 13 November 19...Manuscript: Unknown, Notebook
1900-1945F. E. Pollard gave a short introduction to the play of The Two Noble Kinsmen and in the ensuing reading took the part of Arcite Thos C Elliott taking Palamon and Mrs Evan...T. C. Elliott Shakespeare and FletcherThe Two Noble KinsmenPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945F. E. Pollard gave a short introduction to the play of The Two Noble Kinsmen and in the ensuing reading took the part of Arcite Thos C Elliott taking Palamon and Mrs Evan...Katharine S. Evans Shakespeare and FletcherThe Two Noble KinsmenPrint: Book
1900-1945F. E. Pollard gave a short introduction to the play of The Two Noble Kinsmen and in the ensuing reading took the part of Arcite Thos C Elliott taking Palamon and Mrs Evan...E. Dorothy Brain Shakespeare and FletcherThe Two Noble Kinsmen
1900-1945The evening concluded with a reading from Udalls Ralph Royster Doyster when C. E. Stansfield was Doyster H.R. Smith Merrygreek and E B Smith Custance Charles E. Stansfield Nicholas UdallRalph Roister DoisterPrint: Book
1900-1945The evening concluded with a reading from Udalls Ralph Royster Doyster when C. E. Stansfield was Doyster H.R. Smith Merrygreek and E B Smith Custance Thomas C. Elliott Nicholas UdallRalph Roister DoisterPrint: Book
1900-1945The evening concluded with a reading from Udalls Ralph Royster Doyster when C. E. Stansfield was Doyster H.R. Smith Merrygreek and E B Smith Custance Edith B. Smith Nicholas UdallRalph Roister DoisterPrint: Book
1900-1945

A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue [Oct 19/28]

Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair

1. Minutes of last Meeting approved
[This apparently refers ...

Howard Smith Howard Smith[Minutes of the meeting held 8 May 1928]Manuscript: Notebook
1900-1945

A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue [Oct 19/28]

Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair

1. Minutes of last Meeting approved
[This apparently refers ...

Howard Smith Howard Smith[Minutes/report of the picnic meeting held 12 Jun ...Manuscript: Notebook


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