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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'As we sat waiting for dinner and discussing religion, our first hostile impressions were gradually smoothed away. I recited the opening chapter of the Quran and pr...Freya Stark [n/a] [n/a]KoranUnknown
1900-1945'As we sat waiting for dinner and discussing religion, our first hostile impressions were gradually smoothed away. I recited the opening chapter of the Quran and pr...Freya Stark John MalcolmThe History of PersiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'The Squire of Bijeno was a reader. We spent the evening over the history of Alexander and over '"Memoirs of the Boxer Rising", translated into Persian from the Fre...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon]The History of AlexanderPrint: Book
1900-1945'The Squire of Bijeno was a reader. We spent the evening over the history of Alexander and over "Memoirs of the Boxer Rising", translated into Persian from the Fren...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon]Memoirs of the Boxer RisingPrint: Book
1900-1945'Rutba is the palace planted in the wilderness when Aladdin's uncle rubbed the lamp; how else can it have got there? It is 200 empty miles from anywhere. It has bed...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][notices posted on walls]Manuscript: Sheet, notices on walls
1900-1945'He had the daily paper folded under his arm with his forage cap or sidara, and his latchkey, as long and as heavy, and in fact an exact duplicate of mine, in his h...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Then Yusuf, who is ten, read out the Gospel. He stood straight with the lighted candle in his hand, his face full of seriousness, an impressive little figure under...Freya Stark [n/a] [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'When we had looked over the crumbling edge, the population took us to their mosque, in whose ruin a wooden minbar with date carved upon it gave the presumable age ...Freya Stark [n/a] [n/a]KoranUnknown
1900-1945'In the evening I would take one or the other of my companions [...] to the harims I knew, to meet again the sayyid's lovely wife, and the singers from Ghurfa, and ...Freya Stark [n/a] [n/a]KoranManuscript: Sheet, Parchment
1900-1945'I lie contentedly enough, and amuse myself with a book which Qasim, seeing me in pain, has brought me in his kindness. It is his most treasured possession, a life ...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon]Life of the Prophet MuhammadPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the evenings, if I have no one else below, I climb upstairs to sit in comfort except for mosquitoes - enormous creatures with white rings round their legs - tha...Elinor Wight Gardner [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'In the evenings, if I have no one else below, I climb upstairs to sit in comfort except for mosquitoes - enormous creatures with white rings round their legs - tha...Gertrude Caton-Thompson [n/a] [n/a]Time and TidePrint: Serial / periodical, weekly magazine
1900-1945'In the evenings, if I have no one else below, I climb upstairs to sit in comfort except for mosquitoes - enormous creatures with white rings round their legs - tha...Gertrude Caton-Thompson [n/a] [n/a]SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical, weekly magazine
1900-1945'The Mansab came this morning, and brought a very precious possession, a manuscript copied by his grandfather from earlier histories, a sort of commonplace book of ...Freya Stark Habib Ahmed[untitled commonplace book]Manuscript: Codex, Arabic commonplace book
1900-1945'When the sun had set and I was in bed again, the Mansab's brother, the Qadhi, came to help with explanatory notes for the names of places in the manuscript. We dis...Freya Stark Habib Ahmed[untitled commonplace book]Manuscript: Codex, Arabic commonplace book
1900-1945'I have a copyist now - a thin-faced student in a long gown who writes out for me the manuscript of the Sultan of Qatn for which I have no time: it is six hundred p...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon]Sirat al MutawakkiliyaManuscript: Codex, Arabic history of Yemen
1900-1945'The first section of my own manuscript is copied out now and has given useful information, such as the date of the restoration and final ruin, in A.D. 1298, of al-...Ali Qadhi of Shibam Habib Ahmed[untitled commonplace book]Manuscript: Codex, Arabic commonplace book
1900-1945'In the evening all the boys came rushing excited to my terrace with baskets full of pots. They are rough and ugly, but they have pre-Islamic letters scratched on t...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][inscriptions]Unknown
1900-1945'I enjoy this peaceful interval of sickness and read the works of Jane Austen, released from a fear of death which, ever present in this land of unknown diseases, s...Freya Stark Jane Austen[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Hasan, smoking wisps of paper filled with green tobacco, walked on reciting poems composed by his father about Harold and the R.A.F. and chucked his long brown fin...Freya Stark Anon Anon[unknown Arabic poems in praise of the RAF and Har...Unknown


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