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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'Girl sitting on soiled newspaper is reading Daily Mirror. The caption reads "Three women wait 25 hours; lead line up for the big parade".' [n/a]Daily MirrorPrint: 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 MirrorPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Yes, I read the article too. It shocked me. I think if it all had to be printed - I mean the advertisement - it was quite enough to do it in the way it was done. I don't... Daily MirrorPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Every day for a fortnight at the end of February, an observer brought a copy of the "Daily Mirror" into the canteen and handed it round among immediate neighbours (about... Daily MirrorPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The old reason [for not replying to letters] remains, also the old remedy. A good shillingsworth of fine fiction now. [...] A copy of the July “BLUE” enfolding some rath...Edmund Blunden Daily MirrorPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Went out with May to pay bills when snow & sleet stopped. She left me at Reading Room where I read Times & daily mirror & Graphic.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Daily MirrorPrint: NewspaperUnknown
1800-1849Henry Mayhew interviews a fancy cabinet-maker "...one elderly and very intelligent man, a first rate artisan in skill, told me he had been so reduced in the world by t...anon Daily NewsPrint: Broadsheet, Newspaper
1800-1849'The Doctor has sent into my cabin a "Daily News", which came by the mail on Sunday' [general discussion of its contents - political]John Mitchel [n/a]Daily NewsPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'on Wednesday last (day before yesterday) we came home from paying calls; & found to our surprize that the Daily News had come by post - "What can Charlie have sent this ...Florence Elizabeth Crompton [n/a]Daily NewsPrint: 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 NewsPrint: NewspaperUnknown
1900-1945'I hope you are well, and are finding some solace in your duties. You must find it hard to console aliens in England. They probably love England, and now they are ali...Ivor Bertie Gurney Daily NewsPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Of course you have seen the squib on him in the "Examiner" ("Mr Sampson"). I saw it in a Liverpool paper. One sees him in almost every newspaper now. "D. News" rapped hi...Harriet Martineau [unknown]Daily News (comment on Matthew Arnold)Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to William Harness, February 1842: 'My poor father has passed this winter in a miserable state of health and spirits. His eyesight fails him no...Mary Russell Mitford daily newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Thursday 24th June ?The Spanish Farm? ? (R.H. Mottram) Our ?Robin Hood? Pageant tonight (250 present). I see the ?Daily Post? criticism on poor casting. Quite righ...Gerald Moore Daily PostPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I read the Daily Herald because it gives full account of the news, It is rather inclined to be "partly" and sometimes rather dull. The Sunday Graphic is an excellent pap... Daily SketchPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Let me describe my reading of the Daily Sketch. I first look and read beneath the front page pictures. The chief news feature on page 3 is read carefully and any other b... Daily sketchPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I am so very sorry to hear of the terrible disaster which has once more overtaken the neighbourhood. I read about it yesterday in the Daily Sketch. I do hope there...John Lawton Daily SketchPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'At work the sole topic was the new Conscription Bill, with discussion on how it will affect each one. After reading the "Telegraph" I worked out that it would be August ... [n/a]Daily TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'At work the sole topic was the new Conscription Bill, with discussion on how it will affect each one. After reading the "Telegraph". I worked out t[h]at it would be Augu... [n/a]Daily TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The newspaper today took my breath away. Such a landslide I had not expected. Yesterday morning, reading the "Telegraph" I felt a stalemate possible, or a small Tory La... [n/a]Daily TelegraphPrint: Newspaper


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