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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‘We had Church Parade this morning. One Major read the Lesson and another played the organ. This afternoon I have been reading a book which I just received from Lesli...Wilfred Owen unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945‘We have to go back to Camp on Monday! There are a number of Tents now standing: perhaps for us! I have not been to Hornchurch this Afternoon, but finding a well-furn...Wilfred Owen unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945‘At the first Ambulance I arrived at in the Car, a Corporal came up to me with a staid air of sleepy dignity that seemed somehow familiar. And when he began to enter ...Wilfred Owen unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849we walked into the church which is a good deal painted over, and soon discovered the pictures of Brea. Murray tells us he is not an old master, yet his style appeared to...Susan Horner unknown unknownMurray's guidePrint: Book
1900-1945Raguana who, apart from Fatima, had the most outstanding personality in the harem. She was taller than most Hadhrami women, with a good figure and the striking looks of a...Raguana unknown unknownThe Qu'ranUnknown
1900-1945Raguana who, apart from Fatima, had the most outstanding personality in the harem. She was taller than most Hadhrami women, with a good figure and the striking looks of a...Doreen Ingrams unknown unknownThe Qu'ranUnknown
1900-1945'We had spent many an evening in Teheran, poring over maps and discussing our journey across the Bakthiari country. It had not been easy to get information; the map...Vita Sackville-West unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'It was a change to spend such a lazy day. We read the Apocrypha, I remember, and wandered a little, but not very far afield, not much further than the spring where...Vita Sackville-West unknown unknownBible - the ApocryphaPrint: Book
1900-1945'It was a change to spend such a lazy day. We read the Apocrypha, I remember, and wandered a little, but not very far afield, not much further than the spring where...Vita Sackville-West unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945What a bloody world we are living in! To read the papers makes one quite sick and here one cannot help feeling that the horror over poor little Dollfuss is largely ...Freya Stark unknown unknownunknown Italian newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945I have found what I hope is an unknown and useful manuscript of local history and am copying it out. It has a nice miracle recorded. Someone made fun of a holy man ...Freya Stark unknown unknownunidentified Yemeni manuscriptManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945The day's finds have been brought in, all the diggers so excited they rushed in with them to show me on my roof. There was a sort of communal grave with about six s...Freya Stark unknown unknowninscription on potteryManuscript: Graffito, inscription on pottery
1900-1945'Read some of Schultze's book on Java, lent me by Herr v Ditman. We got in unexpectedly early, about 3. The port of Tanjon Priok has outer roads where some English mercha...Gertrude Bell unknown [?]SchultzeunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham. 6th Oct. 1943 Howard R. Smith in the chair.
1. Minutes of the last meeting were read & approved.
[...]
5. Kenneth Ni...		Kenneth F. Nicholson unknown boy from Leighton Park School [unspecified text]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham. 6th Oct. 1943 Howard R. Smith in the chair.
1. Minutes of the last meeting were read & approved.
[...]
5. Kenneth Ni...		Kenneth F. Nicholson unknown press reporter [unspecified text]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham. 6th Oct. 1943 Howard R. Smith in the chair.
1. Minutes of the last meeting were read & approved.
[...]
5. Kenneth Ni...		unknown members of the XII Book Club unknown/various [legal documents]Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham. 6th Oct. 1943 Howard R. Smith in the chair.
1. Minutes of the last meeting were read & approved.
[...]
5. Kenneth Ni...		unknown members of the XII Book Club unknown/various [official forms]Unknown
1900-1945'I have read your prodigious & all-embracing "Love?s Pilgrimage". I should very strongly resent its being censored in England. It deals candidly, here and there, with su...Arnold Bennett Upton SinclairLove's PilgrimagePrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Urbain Mengin, 1 January 1903: 'Your great handsome wide-margined large-printed, yellow-covered "Italie des Romantiques" came to me safely more months ago ...Henry James Urbain MenginItalie des RomantiquesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mrs Unwin then read a biography of Leo Tolstoi. C.I. Evans then dealt with him as a schoolmaster - H.M. Wallis as a literary artist & R.H. Robson summarised the message ...Ursula Unwin Ursula Unwin[biography of Tolstoy]Manuscript: Unknown


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