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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
 
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I was reading a lot of magazine stories now. There was a boys' reading-room at the public library; the magazines were brought second-hand out of the men's reading-room w...Joseph Stamper [n/a]Strand MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I was reading a lot of magazine stories now. There was a boys' reading-room at the public library; the magazines were brought second-hand out of the men's reading-room w...Joseph Stamper [n/a]WindsorPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I was reading a lot of magazine stories now. There was a boys' reading-room at the public library; the magazines were brought second-hand out of the men's reading-room w...Joseph Stamper [n/a]Pearson'sPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Got the "Monthly Mag" & "Rev." from Miss Haynes. They appear to be two very entertaining no's. I am much pleased with the account of Mr Lambton in the "Monthly Mag". the...Joseph Hunter [n/a]Monthly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I had started to write "poetry". I was reading masses of it in the Penny Poets, and I thought I would like to be a poet myself...'Joseph Stamper [n/a][Penny Poets]Print: Book
1850-1899'reading "Cornhill Magazine" &c'Albert Battiscombe [n/a]Cornhill MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Paymaster went ashore to inquire about coals &, he returned at 8 PM telling us to steam alongside a brig to morrow morning: he brought out some newspapers - I read in on...Albert Battiscombe [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'The Australasian & the Age. Then read a little to the youngsters & at ten o'clock went to bed'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]AustralasianPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The Australasian & the Age. Then read a little to the youngsters & at ten o'clock went to bed'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'To their church in the afternoon, and in Mrs Turner's pew my wife took up a good black hood and kept it. A stranger preached a poor sermon, and so I read over the whole ...Samuel Pepys [n/a]Book of TobitPrint: Book
1600-1699'Home, and at night had a chapter read; and I read prayers out of the Common Prayer book, the first time that ever I read prayers in this house. So to bed.'Samuel Pepys [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'Home, and at night had a chapter read; and I read prayers out of the Common Prayer book, the first time that ever I read prayers in this house. So to bed.'Samuel Pepys [n/a]Common Prayer BookPrint: Book
1600-1699'So after supper and reading of some chapters, I went to bed.'Samuel Pepys [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'In the Evening I read a story from the Arabian Nights, then played a game of Bezique with Dotty.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Arabian Nights, ThePrint: Book
1600-1699'This day I find in the news-Booke that Rogr. Pepys is chosen at Cambridge for the towne, the first place that we hear of to have made their choice yet.'Samuel Pepys [n/a]The Kingdomes IntelligencerPrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'This day in the news-booke, I find that my Lord Buckhurst and his fellows have printed their case as they did give in, upon examinacion, to a Justice of the peace.'Samuel Pepys [n/a]The Kingdomes IntelligencerPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'was down in good time & had devoured my breakfast as well as the Australasian by a little past nine o'clock.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]AustralasianPrint: Serial / periodical
1600-1699'Scotland: it seems, for all the news-book tells us every week that they are all so quiet and everything in the Church settled, the old women had like to have killed the ...Samuel Pepys [n/a]Kingdom IntelligencePrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'Home and stayed up a good while, examining Will in his Latin bible and my brother along with him in his Greeke. And so to prayers and to bed.'John Pepys [n/a][Greek Bible]Print: Book
1600-1699'After a good supper with my wife, and hearing on the maids read in the Bible, we to prayers and to bed.'maids of Samuel Pepys [n/a]BiblePrint: Book


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