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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'First of all I read the main headlines, then the various news paragraphs in order of importance on the front page, then the back page. I then turn to the inside news pag... [n/a]Daily HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'First Oration of Cicero'Mary Shelley Cicero[First Oration]Print: Book
1800-1849'First oration of Verres. Hist of Engd.'Mary Shelley CiceroActio prima in VerremPrint: Book
1850-1899'First Sunday in new lodgings in Albyn place. Effie in bed. I read thoughtfully part of 1st Genesis, beginning a new course of Bible reading, with greater attention to th...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Genesis)Print: Book
1900-1945'First you read the papers, and then you form your own opinion after reading them and thinking about them. There's always something you don't agree with.' NewspapersPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Flora Thompson's village school had no geography books and no formal instruction in geography or history, other than readers offering stock tales about King Alfred and t...Flora Thompson Royal ReaderPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Flora Thompson's village school had no geography books and no formal instruction in geography or history, other than readers offering stock tales about King Alfred and t...Flora Thompson [history reader]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Flora Thompson's village school had no geography books and no formal instruction in geography or history, other than readers offering stock tales about King Alfred and t...Flora Thompson Giovanni Battista BelzoniNarrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries...Print: Book
1900-1945'Florence [Barger] has read Edward Carpenter's My Days and Dreams: Being Autobiographical Notes (1916).'Florence Barger Edward CarpenterMy Days and Dreams: Being Autobiographical NotesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Florence [Lascelles] the Marshalls and I went to the [Berlin] National Gallery to see the modern pictures. It was most interesting because I had been reading about moder...Gertrude Bell unknown unknownunknownPrint: Unknown, presumably book, exhibition catalogue or periodical
1900-1945'Fog did not lift, so we did not begin [patrol]. Spent afternoon in writing, reading etc. Leave for Officers from 4.30-6.15. Went ashore ...'Leslie Richard Romer Anon Anon[unknown]
1850-1899'Fog in the early morning, sun came out after lunch. Quite chilly. Read Arabic and "Les Misérables".' Gertrude Bell Victor HugoLes MisérablesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Fog in the early morning, sun came out after lunch. Quite chilly. Read Arabic and "Les Misérables".' Gertrude Bell unknown unknown[Arabic texts]Print: Book
1900-1945'Foggy all day. Down for patrol but no bon. Read in Mess all day. Wrote letters. Beastly cold.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Followed by the thought that, had I not been reading Ethel Mannin's "Green Willow", which gives a vivid description of this development, perhaps I would not have taken s...Ethel ManninGreen WillowPrint: Book
1850-1899'For a boy in a Lancashire mining village around 1880, where there were few books to read (other than twenty volumes of Methodist Conference minutes) W.H.G. Kingston's "D...William Lax W.H.G. KingstonDick Onslow Among the Red IndiansPrint: Book
1900-1945'For a day or two after the raid I felt curiously lighthearted; like the hero of Hugh Walpole's "The Dark Forest" - one of the few novels I had read that winter - "I was ...Vera Brittain Hugh WalpoleThe Dark Forest Print: Book
1850-1899'For a long time I have been intending to write to you, & express my appreciation of your work, & also to ask what is your connection with Burslem & the potteries, Bursl...Arnold Bennett H.G. WellsThe Time MachinePrint: Book
1850-1899'For a long time I have been intending to write to you, & express my appreciation of your work, & slso to ask what is your connection with Burselem & the potteries, Burs...Arnold Bennett H.G. WellsThe Invisible ManPrint: Book
1850-1899'For a long time I have been intending to write to you, & express my appreciation of your work, & slso to ask what is your connection with Burslem & the potteries, Bursl...Arnold Bennett H.G. WellsThe Cone in 'The Plattner Story and Others'Print: Book


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