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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'After breakfast I postponed the things I ought to do by a little reading and knitting. Then I wrote letters till lunch. Continued this after lunch - this comes of refu... [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Many thanks for the cuttings on higher criticism. I can't help thinking that this movement is larely the result of trying to reduce (as I tried to do a few days ago!) C...Donald William Alers Hankey [unknown][unknown - on Higher criticism]Print: Unknown, cuttings
1900-1945'Don't worry about me; at last I am a serious soldier. I have a pile of books on ordnance, and gunnery, and ammunition, and explosives etc., etc., littering my table, to...Donald William Alers Hankey [unknown][essay on rifling]Print: Book
1800-1849'at ten o'clock yesterday evening little Jem Parsons (the cabin boy), and his friend the black terrier, came on deck, and sat themselves on a gun-carriage, to read by the...Jem Parsons [unknown]The adventures of a lousePrint: Book
1800-1849'at ten o'clock yesterday evening little Jem Parsons (the cabin boy), and his friend the black terrier, came on deck, and sat themselves on a gun-carriage, to read by the...Jem Parsons [unknown]Roslin CastlePrint: Book
1800-1849'at ten o'clock yesterday evening little Jem Parsons (the cabin boy), and his friend the black terrier, came on deck, and sat themselves on a gun-carriage, to read by the...Jem Parsons [unknown][book of prayers]Print: Book
1900-1945'There was little time left before supper, and we decided to go for short walk to have a look at the moon. This done, we sat down for a modest and simple meal of a little... [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Exhilarated with a terrible sadness, after reading "Arise to Conquer", I wondered if, when young men have done with the fighting and can come forward to do some of the t... [unknown]Arise to conquerPrint: Book
1900-1945'I heard that peace was declared on May the 7th, about 7 or 8 o'clock in the evening, at home with my parents. We had not long finished dinner, the table was still set, m... [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'I have dreamt of Hitler twice recently, I put this down [to] reading books in the international situation rather than to anxiety or worry. I do not consciously worry abo... [unknown][works/news on Hitler and Nazi-Germany]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Before the deed was done, however, the person in question awakened (I found the said person had been reading a thriller along such lines and had partaken of a somewhat h... [unknown][a thriller]Print: Book
1600-1699'at night I went to priuat praier and readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'at my accustomed time I went to priuat praier and readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]Transactions of the Medico-Chirurgical SocietyPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]The Conduct of the British Government towards the ...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]Eikon BasilikePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]Sermons or Homilies of the United Church of Englan...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]Homeri Hymni et epigrammataPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]Homeri Hymni et epigrammataPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]Analysis of the Report of a CommitteePrint: Book


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