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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
 
1800-1849'Account in paper of persons sent to tower for high treason.'Benjamin Newton n/a[newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Read the report of the secret committee setting forth the treasonable attempts to overthrow the government and divide all the property.'Benjamin Newton n/a[newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Ripon Ball [...] The papers full of the trial of and acquital of Hone who defended himself very ingeniously on his being indicted ex officio by the Atorney General for a...Benjamin Newton n/a'The newspapers'Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'After having read the accounts of the trial of the Glasgow Moters as managed by the Lord Advocate [...] I think a more disgraceful satin was never affixed to the charact...Benjamin Newton n/a[newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Saw the names of three old acquaintances written with a diamond on the window of our sitting room, viz, Mrs Rewe, Mrs Price, Miss S.Hatton, Sep.1793'Benjamin Newton n/an/aManuscript: Graffito
1900-1945'As a railway clerk's daughter, Muriel Box enjoyed borrowing her brother's "Magnet", "Gem" and "Boy's Own Paper": she later became a leading feminist activist and pioneer...Muriel Box n/aThe MagnetPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'As a railway clerk's daughter, Muriel Box enjoyed borrowing her brother's "Magnet", "Gem" and "Boy's Own Paper": she later became a leading feminist activist and pioneer...Muriel Box n/aThe GemPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'As a railway clerk's daughter, Muriel Box enjoyed borrowing her brother's "Magnet", "Gem" and "Boy's Own Paper": she later became a leading feminist activist and pioneer...Muriel Box n/aThe Boy's Own PaperPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Domestic servant Dorothy Burnham never read girls' stories ("I found them insipid and meaningless") but she and her older sister were fixated on the "Magnet" to the poin...Dorothy Burnham n/aThe MagnetPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Bad account of the Queen in today's St. James' Chronicle'.Benjamin Newton n/aSt. James' ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Saw a very bad account of the Queen today in the Courier at Camp Hill.'Benjamin Newton n/aThe CourierPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'I have opened no other book, save the "Monthly Review" and "Appendix" since I came home... A book that I am sure would amuse Barrett, and perhaps you also, very much, is...Sarah Harriet Burney n/aThe Monthly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I came across the news of the death of Bradshaw in the papers just now.'Sir Walter Raleigh n/a[newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'I called at Squire's [...] my advertisement was not in the Daily Courant. Went into St Dunstan's Church to hear Dr Lupton [is too late] went to the [Royal]Society, Sir I...John Byrom n/aThe Daily CourantPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1700-1799'I read the 2 Vol of the Tatler'John Henry Ott n/aTatlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'It was in the autumn of 1818 that I first becam acquainted with politics and theology. Passingalong Briggate one evening, I saw at the corner of Union Court a bill, whic...James Watson n/a[a 'bill' advertising a meeting].Print: Advertisement, Handbill, Poster
1800-1849'It was in the autumn of 1818 that I first became acquainted with politics and theology. Passing along Briggate one evening, I saw at the corner of Union Court a bill, wh...Group of 'Radical Reformers', who regularly met in Leeds n/aThe Black DwarfPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I did not go to Church but read the New Testament.'William Richard Grahame n/aNew TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading the Bible and Pope, and looking at prints of Paris. Cholera is reported in Philadelphia...'William Richard Grahame n/aBiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Yesterday and today I have been reading the Bible and Pope, and looking at prints of Paris. Cholera is reported in Philadelphia...'William Richard Grahame n/aBiblePrint: Book


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