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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'The Argus had no report of the meeting yesterday for the establishing of a Discharged prisoners Aid Society. The Telegraph had however a tolerably fair report & The Age ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The older generation read "Die Zeit", a large format newspaper in Yiddish, printed in Hebrew characters, whose contents, in tone not unlike "The Times" of those days, yo...Jewish residents of the Gorbals [n/a]Die ZeitPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'[Father] taught himself to read English almost perfectly. Mother somehow taught herself enough English to get the gist of the contents of English newspapers. Father, odd...Mrs Glasser [n/a][English newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'[Father] taught himself to read English almost perfectly. Mother somehow taught herself enough English to get the gist of the contents of English newspapers. Father, odd...Mrs Glasser [n/a]Die ZeitPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I spent hours, days, in the great Reading Room of the Mitchell Library. Young as I was, in my ragged shorts, frayed jersey and ill-fitting jacket, incongruous among the ...Ralph Glasser [n/a]Who's WhoPrint: Book
1900-1945'A few weeks before my fourteenth birthday I read that Einstein was coming to Glasgow to address the university, and made up my mind to go and listen to him'.Ralph Glasser [n/a][announcement of Einstein talk]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'After I left school, the Mitchell became if possible even more important. I read widely, indiscriminately: the lives of the great philosophers and scientists, history an...Ralph Glasser [n/a]Encyclopaedia BritannicaPrint: Book
1900-1945'After I left school, the Mitchell became if possible even more important. I read widely, indiscriminately: the lives of the great philosophers and scientists, history an...Ralph Glasser [n/a][dictionaries]Print: Book
1900-1945'Press reports from Russia had an unreal quality, suggesting that observers did not dare believe the horror thinly concealed in what they saw. Enough filtered through.'Ralph Glasser [n/a][newspaper reports on Russia]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'The Argus had no report of the meeting yesterday for the establishing of a Discharged prisoners Aid Society. The Telegraph had however a tolerably fair report & The Age ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'The Argus had no report of the meeting yesterday for the establishing of a Discharged prisoners Aid Society. The Telegraph had however a tolerably fair report & The Age ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I went into the grey monastic quad of the Bodleian, the Old School quad, and read the legend in gold above each doorway, Scola Mathematica, Schola Physica - the sovereig...Ralph Glasser [n/a][inscriptions at the Bodleian library]Manuscript: Graffito
1900-1945'I met a girl who worked in one of the intelligence sections at Blenheim. In her bed-sitter one evening, as we sat in a tipsy huddle cose to the wheezing gas fire, she mu... [n/a][Intelligence lists of communists]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'In the dimness I had missed - how could I have done! - a few lines of crabbed writing at the very top of the paper, separated from those below by a blank space and a thi...Ralph Glasser [n/a][Oxford Finals Class Lists]Print: Poster
1700-1799'We hear of nothing but the Prince of Wales, but as we get no other account in our letters but what is to be seen in the newspapers I will not repeat anything here.'Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1500-1599'After priuat praier I did eate my breakfast: then I reed of the bible'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Harry this evening commenced reading McAuley's (sic) History of England. He is getting a great deal too fond of Plays & funny pieces & as he reads for marks I mean for t...Polly Castieau [n/a]Family HeraldPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'went to the Club. Had a look at Punch & Vanity Fair & then left.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Vanity FairPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Harry this evening commenced reading McAuley's (sic) History of England. He is getting a great deal too fond of Plays & funny pieces & as he reads for marks I mean for t...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]AustralasianPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'in the evening went to the Club, read for a time & then came home ... Was reading at the Club some of the Articles in "Public Opinion", one especially which lamented the...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Public OpinionPrint: Serial / periodical


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