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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 bulletin of war news, posted up each morning outside the Kommandantur, boasted each day of the capture of countless Russian and French prisoners.' Ian Vivian Hay [bulletin of war news]Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'Reported sick again as the swelling on my leg has not gone down. There is not a sound of a gun to be heard now ... We are now having a thunderstorm, the first rain for f...Stuart Chapman Guy BoothbyA Millionaire's Love StoryPrint: Book
1900-1945'We were allowed to see two German papers—the "Kölnische Zeitung" and the "Lokal Würzburger Anzeiger." These papers arrived after lunch, and anything of interest in t...Ian Vivian Kölnische ZeitungPrint: NewspaperManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'We were allowed to see two German papers—the "Kölnische Zeitung" and the "Lokal Würzburger Anzeiger." These papers arrived after lunch, and anything of interest in t...Ian Vivian Lokal Würzburger AnzeigerPrint: NewspaperManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'Snow was falling ... and there was no chance of getting out to the terrace, so that the rest of the day had to be devoted to Poker and Bridge, games of which we were all...Ian Vivian Hay unknown unknownunknownManuscript: SheetUnknown
1900-1945'Zeppelin. A great rush for the windows ... This evening was marked by the arrival of a parcel of books, Tauchnitz edition, which we had been allowed to order. No doubt t...Ian Vivian Hay unknown unknownunknownPrint: BookManuscript: SheetUnknown
1900-1945'In one of the thoughtful editorials to which readers of the "Irish Homestead" are accustomed, I find condensed into a single phrase the idea which I have been struggling...Ian Vivian Hay George William Russell[editorial in the "Irish Homestead"]Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: SheetUnknown
1900-1945'During the period of our captivity at Munden the time passed more heavily, I think, than at any later period, owing to the fact that we had practically no reading matter...Horace Gray Gilliland unknown unknown[English novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'One day when drawing our parcels we received some little cardboard packets of compressed dates as usual, but this time a small white strip of paper was pasted on the out...Gerald Featherstone Knight [strip of paper]Print: Strip of paper bearing produce information
1900-1945'Cards, roulette, ping-pong and chess greatly assisted in passing the time. We also had quite a good camp library, the books mostly having been received from home. I have...British officers waiting for hot water in the afternoonsunknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I found a letter-box and feverishly endeavoured to decipher, in the semi-darkness, a long word printed in black letters on a white background. With a sinking heart I slo...Gerald Featherstone Knight unknown unknown[sign]Print: BookManuscript: Painted sign.
1900-1945' ... as I had started adolescence in a blaze of idealism, the conflicting ugliness of factory life often drove my spirits into the depths. I rushed to poetry for escape ...Vero Walter Garratt unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Each night I hurried into my best second-hand suit of clothes, hurried down my tea and then hurried off to evening class to learn English grammar and literature. And wha...Vero Walter Garratt Thomas Babington MacaulayunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Each night I hurried into my best second-hand suit of clothes, hurried down my tea and then hurried off to evening class to learn English grammar and literature. And wha...Vero Walter Garratt Joseph AddisonunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Each night I hurried into my best second-hand suit of clothes, hurried down my tea and then hurried off to evening class to learn English grammar and literature. And wha...Vero Walter Garratt John Keats'Ode to the Nightingale'Print: Book
1900-1945'Every available evening I spent in the reference room [at Birmingham Central Library], searching for books which put me in company with the literary giants of the past. ...Vero Walter Garratt Homer IliadPrint: Book
1900-1945'Every available evening I spent in the reference room [at Birmingham Central Library], searching for books which put me in company with the literary giants of the past. ...Vero Walter Garratt Homer OdysseyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Every available evening I spent in the reference room [at Birmingham Central Library], searching for books which put me in company with the literary giants of the past. ...Vero Walter Garratt Epictetus Discourses of EpictetusPrint: Book
1900-1945'Every available evening I spent in the reference room [at Birmingham Central Library], searching for books which put me in company with the literary giants of the past. ...Vero Walter Garratt Longinus On the SublimePrint: Book
1900-1945'Every available evening I spent in the reference room [at Birmingham Central Library], searching for books which put me in company with the literary giants of the past. ...Vero Walter Garratt Plato DialoguesPrint: Book


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