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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'Bought mackintosh 29m knife 3. Heavy snow. Read Harry Dale's Jockey Wild Rose by Nat Gould ... Herring for breakfast.'William Thomas Nat GouldHarry Dale's Jockey "Wild Rose", Her Life and Adve...Print: Book
1700-1799'Bought Mr Smith's "Sermon to the Odd Fellows", Professor Robinson's "Proof of a Conspiracy" seems to have made a deep impression on his mind. Price 6d. Bought also the...Joseph Hunter George SmithA Sermon Delivered in the Parish Church of Sheffie...Print: Pamphlet
1850-1899'Bought the Evening Herald. There was not much in it excepting an account of the injury done to one of the Turret guns of the Cerberus when she was lately firing shell fo...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Bought ["Life of Sarah Barnham"?] (Sara Bernhardt). (See entry for 24 August.) It is villanously scandalous & makes the great actress out to be little better than a beas...John Buckley Castieau [unknown]Sarah BarnhamPrint: Book
1850-1899'Boys finishing their maps. Finish reading to them Ocean Waifs.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Mayne ReidThe Ocean WaifsPrint: Book
1600-1699'brake my fast: after, reed of the bible'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'Breakfast ready and finished dressing 7.45. Read "Daily Worker".' [n/a]Daily WorkerPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Breakfast time - that is 8 to 8.30. I rarely pick up the newspaper again during the day, unless there happens to be a feature article I haven't managed to glance through... NewspapersPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Breakfasted below. Read "Edinburgh Review" afterwards, for first time, after I know what interval, a little Greek, viz Plut. "Phocian"'William Windham [n/a]Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, ... On a foreign strand! O Caledonia! Stern and wild, ...'Bowly groupWalter ScottThe Lay of the Last MinstrelUnknown
1900-1945'Brekker in bed! Bon! Up at 11.30 — down town and bought some things. Read and drew in the afternoon. To dance at Dr Lawrie's in evening: 8.30 to 1.45. Quite bon show. My...Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Brekker in bed: Up on patrol at 10 am v.thick, line patrol. Got lost ... Back after lunch. Thick as pea soup! Nearly lost. Bridge in evening. Lost 3 fr. Bed early, read ...Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Brian flew over. Kirk in p.m. I did not go as leg pretty sore. Read poems in afternoon, felt rotten at night.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Brigadier General Sir Charles Crewe ... came in to inspect the Hospital. The General was so nice. He had diligently read up the literature on Uganda, Bp. Tucker's book, ...Charles Preston Crewe Alfred Robert TuckerAfrican Sketches, or, Uganda and the Way ThitherPrint: BookManuscript: Telegraph cable
1850-1899'Bright and fine, a lot of new snow on the Meije. Breakfasted in my room and down at 9. The Germans [fellow climbers] joined me outside. Read my "Figaros".' Gertrude Bell Le FigaroPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor ...Mark Grossek Tobias Smollett[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor ...Mark Grossek Richard QuainDictionary of MedicinePrint: Book
1900-1945'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor ...Mark Grossek n/aLeviticusPrint: Book
1900-1945'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor ...Mark Grossek Ovid[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor ...Mark Grossek n/a[scandalous news stories in local press]Print: Newspaper


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