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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'Tom... introduced me to Poe's "Tales", to my first detective stories and to the early novels of H.G. Wells.'Norman Nicholson [unknown][detective stories]Print: Book
1900-1945'I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilbert White; books on birds, animals, snakes and trees...Norman Nicholson [unknown][books on birds, animals, snakes, trees]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read for a long time. My eyes have been very weak of late & I found to-night that reading small print by gas-light did not make them better. I am beginning to get disgus...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		'When I grew into a youth and read everything I got my hands on, from Penny Dreadfuls to the Holy Scriptures, I came across phrases that puzzled me, such as "sans-culotte...Joseph Stamper [unknown]Penny DreadfulsPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		'When I was a youth I envied others having this capacity to make close friends. I even bought a book, "How To Make Friends and Influence People". I read the book, but it ...Joseph Stamper [unknown]How to make friends and influence peoplePrint: Book
1850-1899'Have finished the lives of Harry the VIIIths Queens, very interesting work. Reading a small treatise on "Pneumatics" to pick up a little of what I have forgotten'Albert Battiscombe [unknown][lives of Henry VIII's wives - see note below]Print: Book
1850-1899'Have finished the lives of Harry the VIIIths Queens, very interesting work. Reading a small treatise on "Pneumatics" to pick up a little of what I have forgotten'Albert Battiscombe [unknown]PneumaticsPrint: Book
1850-1899'My father took me to see them sold up. He must have been off work again, foundry work was little better than casual labour then. The auctioneer's man had taken the two h...Joseph Stamper [unknown][notice]Manuscript: Graffito
1850-1899'Whilst waiting my turn and having observed all these things, I started to spell out a notice above the mirror, I could read enough. It said "Haircut: Men 3d., Boys 2d., ...Joseph Stamper [unknown][notice]Print: Advertisement, Poster
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Father] had joined the PSA at the YMCA. That is: the Pleasant Sunday Afternoon at the Young Men's Christian Association; a religious service with plenty of tuneful hymn... [unknown]Sylvestre SoundPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Father] had joined the PSA at the YMCA. That is: the Pleasant Sunday Afternoon at the Young Men's Christian Association; a religious service with plenty of tuneful hymn... [unknown]SomnambulistPrint: Book
1900-1945'...went along to the reference room of the public library to look up data on African trees. I searched the shelves and found just the book I wanted: a scientific work th...Joseph Stamper [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'[given an alternative text by the librarian, entitled 'Young People's First Book of Trees'] Every time the man came through the room I slipped the African book on to my ...Joseph Stamper [unknown]Young People's First Book of TreesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Worked an hour or two at French; I suppose I must now finish the history of Rome, having once begun it must be finished'Albert Battiscombe [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Reading a book on Pneumatics and been thinking of making an Anemometer of my own invention do not know if it would succeed, and I have great doubts of my ever attempting...Albert Battiscombe [unknown][book on pneumatics]Print: Book
1850-1899'Reading "History of Rome", & amusing myself variously.' Albert Battiscombe [unknown]History of RomePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'And the female crocodile does make a nest! I had read all about it in a book from the library...'Joseph Stamper [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I was getting a lot of stiff reading out of the public library, now, "for my father". One work was "Quain's Anatomy" in two volumes. The first volume was anatomy and phy...Joseph Stamper [unknown]Quain's AnatomyPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I read a lot of astronomy and that, too, was wonderful. The world is full of wonders if one only looks for them. One book I got was on spectrum analysis, as applied to a...Joseph Stamper [unknown][Astronomy and spectrum analysis]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I was so interested in spectrum analysis that I took the big book to school with me, to read in playtime. The desks we had were box-type, there was a lid to lift and you...Joseph Stamper [unknown][Astronomy and spectrum analysis]Print: Book


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