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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'During the whole of my stay I continually asked to be allowed to have English books, but apart from one small, rather sloppy novel I was only permitted a German-English ...Lorimer John Austin unknown unknown[German-English Grammar]Print: Book
1900-1945'The routine of every day was precisely the same. We were wakened at five, and the coffee for breakfast was provided at half-past ... After dressing, and performing the m...Lorimer John Austin unknown unknown[German-English Grammar]Print: Book
1900-1945'The British officers formed a circulating library, and it was always possible to get any number of the Tauchnitz books in English and in French. There was no lack of rea...Lorimer John Austin unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
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 unknown unknownLost Tribes, ThePrint: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945
'"An Ex Mill Girl," [Ethel Carnie] who wrote the novel, "Helen of Four Gates," telling an English interviewer of the twenty years she spent in a cotton factory in the Nor...Ethel Carnie Holdsworth unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'The French postcards and magazines are very rude!!! Streets are cobbled only. I have some photographs and postcards of views.'Leslie Semple unknown unknown[French pornography]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The last few days have been all the same, Nothing to do but sit around reading and chatting. The weather has changed. It is now pouring with rain.'Leslie Semple unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'Very nice weather. Very hot indeed. Reading on the sands. Also took a shot of some fisher girls in their picturesque costumes, digging for worms and bait.'Leslie Semple unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'Raid on Valenciennes. Very little to do each day but reading. Have given my name in for a correspondence course.'Leslie Semple unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'Read the new Army of Occupation Orders. We are to get 28/- per week bonus for staying on. Rather good work.'Leslie Semple unknown unknownArmy of Occupation OrdersPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Thanks most awfully for your letters & parcels, the gloves were "topping" also the books — I have read most of them but will read them again!'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tea at the Y.M.C.A. Club. Read after tea. Rain off. Bought socks. Supper in town — bed.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Lovely day ... Read in afternoon and played bridge — lost 4f 25 c! Bed — v cold!'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'To tea at No 1 [squadron's mess] with Moore, v.good tea. Not to church all day — must go next week. Read in the evening.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Cummings in for dinner and another from No 1 [squadron]. Read and talked ... after dinner. Bed at 11 — slept excellently.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Brekker in bed: Up on patrol at 10 am v.thick, line patrol. Got lost ... Back after lunch. Thick as pea soup! Nearly lost. Bridge in evening. Lost 3 fr. Bed early, read ...Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Strong [westerly] wind ... in morning. 3 E.A. [enemy aircraft] seen which hove off at once — both my guns froze up hard.
Read in afternoon and evening.'
Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thanks most awfully for the topping parcel of Xmas things. The pipe's ripping & so are the cigarettes & I am sure the books will be most interesting.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Bed at 12. Read and smoked till then. Very cold — frozen in bed. "B" Flt came back from break.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Up for early show ... Started to snow and carried on nearly all day! No patrols; did nothing except read and smoke.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book



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