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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
 
1800-1849Byron to the Earl of Clare, 20 August 1807: 'I hope this Letter will find you safe, I saw in a Morning paper, a long account of Robbery &c. &c. committed on the persons o...George Gordon, Lord Byron anon[morning newspaper]Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Evidence in trial for theft and receiving stolen goods. Prisoner Brown questions witness George Picard: Q: "Do you remember that there was a newspaper on the table at...George Picard Daily AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft and receiving stolen goods; witness reads a 'bogus' invoice to the court: Q: "Is the invoice in a business-like form?" A: "Certai...George Deboos  Manuscript: invoice
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft and receiving stolen goods; witness reads a letter aloud to the court Deboos: "After reading it, he handed it to me -(reads) 'Mr S...George Deboos  Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849Witness statements in trial for coining: John Shobel: "Freeman, the inspector, stood by the fire, reading the newspaper at the time..."Joshua Freeman  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statements in trial for theft: George Baverstock: "I keep the Angel and Crown public house, opposite Whitechapel church; I have kept it thirteen years -I know ...Nicholas Benigne Ablin The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statements in trial for coining/forgery: John Limbrick: "I am an officer of Hatton Garden. I was with Read at the Lincoln's Inn coffee-house; we sat down and h...James Clark  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to William Harness, 11 February 1808: 'I ... remember being favoured with the perusal of many of your compositions....'George Gordon Lord Byron William HarnessunknownUnknown
1800-1849Witness statements in trial for theft: Thomas Stevenson: "...next day he said they [stolen property] were advertised. I looked in The Times, and said it was not there....Thomas Stevenson The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statements in trial for highway robbery: John Gavill: "I saw his [Davis] examination in the newspapers... I read his examination in the newspaper and his siste...John Gavill  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statements in trial for theft: Eliza Morris: "I went to live servant at the Bank tavern, John-street, and one day I was reading the newspaper; the first thing ...Eliza Morris  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statements in trial for theft: Robert Ireland: "On the 11th of July, in the afternoon, these stockings hung by the door, inside the shop -I was sitting by the ...Robert Ireland  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statements in trial for theft: John Mims: "I am servant to John Bird, who keeps a cook-shop in Golden Lane. I was reading the newspaper, I heard the weights ji...John Mims  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statements in trial for tax offences: Jane Fuller: "I can neither read nor write; I had occasion to send a letter, and told Griffiths of it, he offered to writ...George Griffiths  Print: Book
1800-1849Witness statements in trial for tax offences: Jane Fuller: "I can neither read nor write; I had occasion to send a letter, and told Griffiths of it, he offered to writ...George Griffiths  Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849Witness statements in trial for tax offences: Jane Fuller: "I heard about this business, three weeks ago. I heard Mr Lasken, of Grove Ferry, read in the newspaper that...  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Robert Peel to John Wilson Croker [undated], to accompany 'a collection of choice documents' on Ireland: 'The little volume called "A Sketch of Irish History" is a m...Robert Peel 'a priest at Longford' letter to parishionerManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 23 June 1810: 'I ... request that you will write to malta. I expect a world of news, not political, for we have the papers up to May.'George Gordon Lord Byron [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Edward Ellice, 4 July 1810: 'I hear your friend Brougham is in the lower house mouthing at the ministry ... you remember he would not believe that I had written ...George Gordon Lord Byron Henry Brougham[speech]Unknown
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 23 August 1810: 'I am learning Italian, and this day translated an ode of Horace "Exegi monumentum" into that language[.]' George Gordon Lord Byron HoraceOde ("Exegi monumentum")Unknown


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