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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'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue 18th Sept, 1944
    A. Bruce Dilks in the chair.

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2. The minutes of the las...		Francis E. Pollard William BlakeHow sweet I roam'd from field to fieldUnknown
'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue 18th Sept, 1944
A. Bruce Dilks in the chair.

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2. The minutes of the last meeting were read ...		Francis E. Pollard William BlakeHow sweet I roam'd from field to fieldUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue 18th Sept, 1944
A. Bruce Dilks in the chair.

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2. The minutes of the last meeting were read ...		Francis E. Pollard William BlakeJerusalemUnknown
1900-1945'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor ...Mark Grossek William BoothIn Darkest England and the Way OutPrint: Book
1850-1899'I got up had a cup of tea & then read several tracts & some on the training of children by Mrs Booth ...'James Bennetts Williams William BoothThe Training of ChildrenPrint: Unknown
1500-1599
1600-1699		Virginia F. Stern notes that, in Gabriel Harvey's copy of William Bourne, "A Regiment for the Sea" (1592; inscribed 1594 by Harvey), 'brown crayon-like horizontal marking...Gabriel Harvey William BourneA Regiment for the Sea, Containing verie necessari...Print: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcribed a letter from 'Mr Evelyn to Mr Pepys, Wotton August 9 1700', beginning, 'The confirmation of your he...C.M.G. [anon] William BrayLife of John EvelynPrint: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'Extract from the Life of John Evelyn Esq published by (and edited) William Bray Esq., Fellow a...William Bray (ed.)Life of John EvelynPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read in the day part of Burkitt's "Poor Man's Help or Young Man's Guide", which I think the best book I ever read of the size.'Thomas Turner William BurkittThe poor man's help and the young man's guidePrint: Book
1700-1799Contains a contents list, index to illustrations, index to maps and cross references to other texts in his library.John Dawson William CamdenBritannia: or, a Chorographical Description of GrePrint: Book
1600-1699Camden does credit this and repeates a tryal one made of forceing a Duck into one of those falls, which came out at the other side by Moles with its feathers allmost all ...Celia Fiennes William CamdenBritanniaPrint: Book
[Marginalia]: ms annotations in form of numbers in margin from p.27- p.655 - as if reference system (they are in numerical order); there are also a few marginal notes in ...Henry Fox William CamdenThe history of the most renowned and victorious pr...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William CamdenInstitutio graecae grammatices compendiariaPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so I left them with him and went with Mr Moore to Grayes Inne to his chamber, and there he showed me his old Cambdens "Brittannia", which I intended to buy of him an...Samuel Pepys William CamdenBritanniaPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Johnson said] There is in "Camden's Remains", an epitaph upon a very wicked man, who was killed by a fall from his horse, in which he is supposed to say, 'Between t...Samuel Johnson William CamdenRemains Concerning BritainPrint: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she ...Elizabeth Lyttelton William CamdenHistorie of the Life and Reigne of ElizabethPrint: Book
1900-1945'The house in which I was born was ... a two-centuries-old Georgian mansion, a barrack of a place that seemed even larger in my juvenile perspective than it actually was ...Desmond Malone William CarletonThe Squanders of Castle SquanderPrint: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of William Cartwright, 'To Mr. W. B. at the Birth of his first Child'. Elizabeth Lyttelton William CartwrightTo Mr. W. B. at the Birth of his first ChildPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge William CaveScriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Historia LiterariaPrint: Book
1450-1499'In 1477 William Caxton presented his "History of Jason" to the 6-year-old future Edward V. Edward IV, the little prince's father, had instructed the child's governor tha...King Edward V William CaxtonHistory of JasonPrint: Book


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