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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'I have the "Cambrian News" sent to me every week so I am able to read of the good work you and Friends are doing to Cheer up the Aber[ystwyth] Boys out here.' W. Joseph Cambrian NewsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The night before the coming of the first parcel, I was reading the same news in the Aber papers: how that first this one and then that one had received parcels of cigare...E. C. Benson Cambrian NewsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'It may interest you to know that I have at last succeeded in meeting an Aber boy and one too whose name I note in the last issue of the Cambrian News acknowledging a gif...E. C. Benson Cambrian NewsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I am writing these few lines to let you know that I received your Cambrian News, and also the ciggarretes [sic], they went round to all the Aber boys, which they gratefu...Arthur Jones Cambrian NewsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'It makes me feel lonely at times when I read the letters in the Cam. News from some of the Aber. boys, as they all seem to have some Aber. boys with them but I'm on my o...Fred Hollin Cambrian NewsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I haven't meet [sic] any Aber Boys out here yet only A Potts of North Parade, & we were stationed in the same place for about 3 weeks & not knowing about him until I rec...Fred Hollin Cambrian NewsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'How sorry I was to learn through the Cambrian News of poor Lieut. Oswald Green's death, also Lieut. C. Ellis.'Robert Bevan Cambrian NewsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I see by the Camb. News that J. Thomas has received the D.C.M. + I hope there will be a few more Aber boys who ill come home with the same honour.'H. L. Powell Cambrian NewsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The men of my section — with whom I shared its contents — had previously heard & read in the "C.N." of the charitable disposition of the people of dear old Aber., & with...Robert W. Ellis Cambrian NewsPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'Mr Fisher who came up to alter Mr E a gown &c against our journay bought in a "Cambridge Inteligencer" to look at; it is a very free paper & conducted by Mr Flower.'Joseph Hunter [n/a]Cambridge InteligencerPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 26 June 1796: 'The Cambridge Intelligencer has this day informed me that George Strachey has won the Greek Ode.' Robert Southey Cambridge IntelligencerPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'As I was keen to go abroad, and half fearful of the war ending before my dream was consummated, I was not to be tempted by Marian's opinions ... And so she proceeded to ...Vero Walter Garratt Cambridge MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'My friend Marian continued to send the bunch of periodicals that helped to shatter my illusions about the righteousness of the War. Particularly I was impressed by the <...Vero Walter Garratt Cambridge MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'No work of fiction could be read unless approved by their mother* ... [footnote] * An exception was made in the case of Fanny Burney's third novel, Camilla. "I've got le...Princess Elizabeth Fanny BurneyCamillaPrint: Book
1700-1799'My [underlined] vast [end underlining] dear Sister! O why, instead of 5, not give us [underlined ten, twenty [end underlining], of such dear delicious people? - I have ...Sarah Harriet Burney Frances BurneyCamilla; or, a Picture of YouthPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 7 Marlborough Avenue 22/10/45
Arnold G. Joselin in the chair

1. The minutes of the previous meeting were read & signed.

...		Howard Smith Francis Sydney SmytheCamp 6: An Account of the 1933 Mount Everest Exped...Print: Book
1700-1799?Being now became a constant attendant of the gent?n ringers once or twice a week, I ? began to aspire towards ringing a longer peal, for w?ch purpose I wrote the changes...John Marsh members of the Society of London Scholars, J.D. and C.M. Campanologia improved; or, the Art of ringing made...Print: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding John LylyCampaspePrint: Book
1900-1945"When ... [Mrs Humphrey Ward] read aloud from Canadian Born (1910) to the assembled guests at Lord Stanley's part at Alderley Park, the verdict was that 'it was terribly ...Mrs Humphrey Ward Mrs Humphrey WardCanadian BornUnknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34.

Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved, in the teeth of one dis...

Dorothy Brain Charles E. StansfieldCanariesManuscript: Unknown, Notebook


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