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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'Sun. Read "The Crystal Stopper" by Maurice Blanc ... Unable to play Badminton.'William Thomas Maurice LeBlancThe Crystal StopperPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tues. Parcel from Pemb. ... Read The Ashes of Vengeance by Sommerville.'William Thomas H. B. SomervilleAshes of Vengeance: A Romance of Old FrancePrint: Book
1900-1945'Sun. Nil. Read A Trap to Catch a Dream.'William Thomas Dion Clayton CalthropA Trap to Catch a DreamPrint: Book
1900-1945'Fri. Read America the War by Hugo Münsterberg. Roulette +1.50 for Sat.'William Thomas Hugo MünsterbergThe War and AmericaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mon. Very few letters. None for me. All well. Read Naval Occasions by Bartimeus. V Good.'William Thomas Bartimeus (pseud.)Naval Occasions and Some Traits of the Sailor-ManPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sun. As usual. Walking Round and Reading.'William Thomas unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I had very little leisure time to lie with mother but read in the evening.'Anne Jenkins unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'I received a card from the war in France from Lieutenant E. R. Jones, who is on service out there, with the few words ... "I am quite well".' Anne Jenkins E. R. Jones[postcard]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'I received a very long & most interesting letter from Lieut. E. R. Jones from Marseilles France where he is stationed with the Indian troops who are on field service.'Anne Jenkins E. R. Jones[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'I went to town in the evening Jack in school brought budget home. I read a little after supper. Mother feeling very comfortable.'Anne Jenkins  Unknown
1900-1945'Jack read in the evening — I managed to get a look at the budget.'Anne Jenkins BudgetPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I read a little after supper also Gwen & Jack.'Anne Jenkins unknownUnknown
1900-1945'I plucked a couple of fowls Jack helped 1 for Miss Thomas Cambrian house another for brother John. I also read a little before retiring.'Anne Jenkins unknownUnknown
1900-1945'I felt too tired for much reading. Gwen did some sewing after supper.'Anne Jenkins unknownUnknown
1900-1945'Gwen's hand is improving. I applied some carbonate of soda to [indecipherable] having read about in a medical book.'Anne Jenkins unknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I looked over the Budget before sending it away to India for Milly Jones.'Anne Jenkins BudgetPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I have the "Cambrian News" sent to me every week so I am able to read of the good work you and Friends are doing to Cheer up the Aber[ystwyth] Boys out here.' W. Joseph Cambrian NewsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The night before the coming of the first parcel, I was reading the same news in the Aber papers: how that first this one and then that one had received parcels of cigare...E. C. Benson Cambrian NewsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'It may interest you to know that I have at last succeeded in meeting an Aber boy and one too whose name I note in the last issue of the Cambrian News acknowledging a gif...E. C. Benson Cambrian NewsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I am writing these few lines to let you know that I received your Cambrian News, and also the ciggarretes [sic], they went round to all the Aber boys, which they gratefu...Arthur Jones Cambrian NewsPrint: Newspaper


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