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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
 
1700-1799Prisoner's defence in trial for highway robbery: "When I came home I went to a coffee-house in Long-acre and asked for the Daily Advertiser, there I saw the paragraph ...Alexander Bourk Daily AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for robbery: Jane Toosey swore to the court that she read about this crime in the newspaper -The Daily AdvertiserJane Toosey Daily AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
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
1900-1945'Aubrey Hicks offers an illustration of how little world news reached even the best-informed workers. His father, a painter on the Rothschild estate at Tring, had attende...Aubrey Hicks Daily ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'six months later I read the following announcement in the "Daily Chronicle": "Yesterday a smart and well-dressed young man named L. F. H. S. was charged before the Lord ...anon [n/a]Daily ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'So home to tea … And after tea, letters, etc., together with a Daily Chronicle I had managed to cadge from the A.S.C., till family Evensong at 7 p.m.'Philip Thomas Byard Clayton Daily ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Ex shop assistant, about 63. Reads Daily Express, News of the world, Evening News. Chief interest in the short stories. Reads big news items, but prefers to get them fro... Daily ExpressPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I read the Daily Express because I like its human interest, the Telegraph because of its fairly accurate reporting... I do not like the way the Express gives undue publi... Daily ExpressPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Hundreds of men and women were standing on the stairs leading to the basement. They read newspapers, they chatted, they seemed strangely amiable.... I sat beside two wo... Daily ExpressPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Coming up to London on the morning of September 8th, I read with the same happiness as my neighbours a "Daily Express" article by Duncan Sandys, M.P., the chairman of th...Vera Brittain Daily ExpressPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Out with May. She left me in Reading Room when she went about housemaid — read daily graphic[.] Took out "Through Central Africa from East to West". Very gratifying acco...Harriet Bickersteth Cook Daily GraphicPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Got to bed at about midnight again after finding a landscape of Messines and Wulverghem in our house in an illustrated Paper drawn for the same view or nearly so as on...Thomas Stafford Wollocombe [n/a] [n/a]Daily GraphicPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I read an article in the "Daily Herald" on the Coronation Day survey. There was an invitation to write to Blackheath if any wished to assist. It appealed to me immensely... [n/a]Daily HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I read the first page of the newspaper first, then turn to the back page, then fold the outside in. A chance headline may set me reading page 3 first, but usually it is ... [n/a]Daily HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I read the headlines and the adverts. If any particular headline strikes me I follow it up. Particularly comment on parliamentary debates. I don't read racing or Sp... [n/a]Daily HeraldPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
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
1900-1945'I have always adopted the principle of working the newspaper fairly carefully from beginning to end. There may be an occasional glance at principal headlines over breakf... [n/a]Daily HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Reads Daily Herald. Likes best and spends most time on the racing and sports page. Considers the other stuff a lot of tripe.' Daily HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I read the Daily Herald. I don't read much of the general news. The pages I prefer are the items on sport, horse racing and football, and I spend most time on these page... Daily HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Man, 35, Jew. Entered at 6.10. Walked towards Daily Herald. A Cockney was reading it, Jew held one side of paper and read for 5 secs. The Cockney said, "Wait a bit, I sh... Daily HeraldPrint: Newspaper


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