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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'The ... grandiloquent "education programme" we were able to satisfy sufficiently. A number of the "boys" were barely literate and Miss Nettleton could deal with the thre...Irene Nettleton Kenneth GrahameThe Wind in the WillowsPrint: 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'There travels with them an agreeable man called Pontremoli, who wrote an excellent book on the temple of Apollo Didymus. I've just read the book and I shall see the temp...Gertrude Bell Emmanuel Pontremoli (and Bernard HaussoullierDidymes: Fouilles de 1895 et 1896Print: Book
1900-1945'Thank you for the delightful little book and for the far too delightful inscription you put into it. I opened it after breakfast at the vocabulary essay and read that ag...Gertrude Bell Florence Bell?Topics for ConversationPrint: Book
1900-1945'At 5 the Chelabi [?local chief] arrived with a large and picturesque following robed in white and armed with rifles. After visiting me he held a mejlis in the der. Befor...Gertrude Bell George BorrowThe Bible in Spain: or, The journeys, adventures, ...Print: Book
1900-1945'Read Ritter.'Gertrude Bell Karl RitterDie Erdkunde im Verhältniss zur Natur und zu...Print: Book
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'Fine all day, sunny but cold. Mr Henriez, vice consul at Aleppo and at Mosul is on board, going to take up his post at Alexandria. Reading "Jean Christophe" — most...Gertrude Bell Romain RollandJean-ChristophePrint: Book
1900-1945'[James] Garvin used very strong words in his article in the "Observer" today, the article was headed "England's Fame or Shame" ... Got the "Times" Sunday edition, the fi...J. P. Lynch James Louis Garvin'England's Fame or Shame', in the 'Observer' (2 Au...Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'[James] Garvin used very strong words in his article in the "Observer" today, the article was headed "England's Fame or Shame" ... Got the "Times" Sunday edition, the fi...J. P. Lynch The Times (Sunday Edition)Print: 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'... all of us were at all times longing for news, and it was rare that we ever got any except for the German version, and that only from the local paper, all the leading...J. P. Lynch Berliner TagblattPrint: NewspaperManuscript: Letter, Postcards
1900-1945'... all of us were at all times longing for news, and it was rare that we ever got any except for the German version, and that only from the local paper, all the leading...J. P. Lynch Leipziger Neueste NachrichtenPrint: NewspaperManuscript: 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'After tea sat over the fire and read the Lancet until time to go up to our cafe for dinner.'Harold Upcott The LancetPrint: Serial / periodical


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