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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'Church parade over, the day was before us for what we liked ... Jack Hinchcliffe would come across and sit outside the tent chatting and reading the paper before d...Geoffrey Ratcliff Husbands Herbert George WellsTono BungayPrint: Book
1900-1945'The news of Lord Kitchener's death reached us while we were at Hinges. Someone walked into our billet and said they had just heard Kitchener was dead. "Another rum...Geoffrey Ratcliff Husbands Le MatinPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Off parade there was little enough to do. La Thieuloye was a desolate hole, a mere hamlet with hardly a shop for miles ... Our barn was a fine roomy one and we wer...Geoffrey Ratcliff Husbands [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Most army hospitals acquired a varied collection of books and this ward was no exception. With plenty of time to pass in bed I naturally spent a lot of it reading,...Geoffrey Ratcliff Husbands William Tufnell Le Queux[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Most army hospitals acquired a varied collection of books and this ward was no exception. With plenty of time to pass in bed I naturally spent a lot of it reading,...Geoffrey Ratcliff Husbands Edgar Wallace[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Most army hospitals acquired a varied collection of books and this ward was no exception. With plenty of time to pass in bed I naturally spent a lot of it reading,...Geoffrey Ratcliff Husbands Emily BronteWuthering HeightsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Most army hospitals acquired a varied collection of books and this ward was no exception. With plenty of time to pass in bed I naturally spent a lot of it reading,...Geoffrey Ratcliff Husbands Ivan Turgenev[unknown]Print: Book
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'Down in the village street stood our motor, the ceiling light switched on, brilliantly illuminating the interior, and inside it, oblivious to the crowd that presse...unknown unknown Edward GibbonunknownPrint: 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 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
1900-1945‘Reading East Lynne’George Adcock Weston Ellen WoodEast LynnePrint: Book
1900-1945‘I was very glad to get your parcel in the week, the cake was fine, & so were the fags. Im sure it was very good of you to send them. I believe it was Monday that I...George Adcock Weston Burton ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Ahmed and I talked together and read the Quran, when he would put on his tarbush, put out his cigarette, and be careful that the Book should not be touched except ...Doreen Ingrams [n/a] [n/a]KoranPrint: Book, Read in Arabic
1900-1945'We set off early along a dry river-bed green with date palms on either bank, pursued by thousands of flies which we could not get rid off until we reached the cold...Doreen Ingrams Anon Anon[poems]Print: Book, Read in Arabic
1900-1945'When we returned to Mukalla from the East Indies there was more work than ever; the war meant a number of new regulations which had to be enforced including the ce...Doreen Ingrams [Anon] [Anon][letters]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'We continued riding towards Leijun over the flat, stony plateau with scarcely a shrub to break the monotony. It was so monotonous that I read an "Argosy" Magazine ...Doreen Ingrams [n/a] [n/a]Argosy MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'An imaginative aunt who, for my ninth birthday, sent a copy of the "Arabian Nights", was, I suppose, the original cause of trouble. Unfostered and unnoticed, the l...Freya Stark [n/a] [n/a]The Arabian Nights' EntertainmentPrint: Book
1900-1945'The chief of the post, pushing his long hair out of his eyes and leaning on his gun, slowly read the address of my letter of introduction to the Governor at Alisht...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][letter of introduction]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Here, owing to the fact that I had not yet discovered the depths of my Philosopher's incompetence, and we spent three weary days, relieved only by "The Pilgrim's P...Freya Stark John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book


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