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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'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 HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945I am glad to see that today you give some figures to show what the coal strike is really about. The public seldom knows what a strike is about. . . No paper gives impart...Arnold Bennett Daily HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I read mainly the papers my parents take and they are not therefore my choice: Daily Mirror, Daily Mail. The former I find amusing though rather like a novelette but I p... Daily MailPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'[Bernard] Shaw the buffoon, the joker, the iconoclast, appeared day by day in every newspaper like a living comic strip. "That jackass", my father would umph, half-teasi... [n/a]Daily MailPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I begin at the back page of the Daily Mail, and read straight through till I come to the front. I don't know why I do this. I don't remember when I began to do so.' Daily MailPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Monday 23rd August I was more than usually disgusted with the ?Mail? for blatantly howling of our ?recovery of the Ashes? on a poster. On the street of one poor gam...Gerald Moore Daily MailPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I have the Daily Mail and the News of the World for sport. They're getting a bit better than they were, but they're still a bit poor. Yes, I should like to see more spor... Daily MailPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945It is 1,000 pities the 'Express' didn’t get the Wells Washington stuff. His first 3 articles in the 'Mail' have been absolutely tremendous. Arnold Bennett Daily MailPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Send an English newpaper (not the Daily Mail as we have it here) occasionally. We are forbidden to send picture postcards now. I am in a hurry to catch the mail, so I ...Henry William Williamson [n/a] [n/a]Daily MailPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Thanks for books & pyjamas & toffee ... Please send Motor Cycling & Motor Cycle & an occasional Daily Mail — we get none here — we're miles from civilization.'Henry William Williamson [n/a] [n/a]Daily MailPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Don't forget a cake & send Daily Mail every other day and Motor Cycle & Motor Cycling and the mags.'Henry William Williamson [n/a][ [n/a]Daily MailPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Wrote to Albert [Albert Ruskin Cook, her son in Uganda] + posted. Mended skirt with brown wool. Read papers: Daily Mail and News.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Daily MailPrint: NewspaperUnknown
1900-1945'Knitted and Daily Mail. Rheims Cathedral destroyed by Germans. Early dinner ¼ 1. Rested in d:r:'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Daily MailPrint: NewspaperUnknown
1900-1945'I saw a Daily Mail in the evening. The Germans are gone back on an 82-mile front, extending from Arras in the north to a good bit below us here in the south ... W...Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson Daily MailPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'We got up and 9 am surrounded by the females of the farm who were in the kitchen. I in my pyjamas. However, I hid behind the table when I dressed. I just read a ridiculo...Gerald Achilles Burgoyne Daily MailPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The paper boy came outside the lines soon after breakfast and there in the Mail was my name "mentioned in dispatches." I couldn't help feeling delighted.'Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson Daily MailPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'As you say, Mother, the war does not look like ending for a long time yet. You never want to read the Daily Mail. It is almost a pro German paper. There are things...Thomas Wainwright [n/a] [n/a]Daily MailPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945‘You don’t read "The Daily Mail", I suppose; but reading it out here opens one’s eyes to the dangerous influence the press is beginning to arrogate and may ultimately...Charles Hamilton Sorley Daily MailPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Did you read Beach-Thomas' account of bombing raids on a Field Ambulance in Daily Mail of 23rd. The Boche is a rotter! I'm afraid I have been rather too optimistic...John Lawton Daily MailPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The Daily mail has persistent articles about Stabilisation at 100' [reference to currency fluctuations]Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen [n/a]Daily Mail, ThePrint: Newspaper


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