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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'It was agreed to purchase a second copy of the News Chronicle to meet the extra demand for examining the situations vacant adverts by unemployed.'Readers at Uxbridge Library News ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899
1900-1945		'There was a lending library in town, but with no education or guidance in English literature, [Edwin Muir] wasted valuable reading time. Then there was opposition from h...Edwin Muir [study of David Hume]Print: Book
1800-1849'Bedale Club, dined - ordered M'cleod's journal of the Alceste. Dispute at club as to spelling of experience. No one but Mr Monson and I supported the above mode but bot...Benjamin Newton biblePrint: Book
1800-1849[Annotations] Written on Fol 1 recto, "Mechanics Institute Jan 1839" and on Fol 2 recto, in the same hand, "H.J.Batt Esq, Uxbridge"H.J. Batt Uxbridge & HIllingdon Literary & Mechanics Institu...Print: Advertisement, Pamphlet
1800-1849
1850-1899		"To the Editors of the Attempt, Gentlemen, If I recollect rightly you give notice to the effect, that communication cannot be received after the twentieth of the month....anon The AttemptPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945"To the Editor, Dear Sir, I have just been looking through some Gazettes intending them for salvage, & came across a note about John Bedford Leno. I am sending to you ... Uxbridge GazettePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849"And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the penny school, he had learnt to read, and the desire to...Gerald Massey BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849"And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the penny school, he had learnt to read, and the desire to...Gerald Massey [Wesleyan magazines]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849"And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the penny school, he had learnt to read, and the desire to...Gerald Massey [battle histories]Print: Book
1700-1799"Samuel Johnson ... annotated a copy of a religious work in 1755 so he could exchange views with a woman he loved, Hill Boothby."Samuel Johnson religious workPrint: Unknown
1800-1849"Walter Savage Landor's copy of Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington takes issue with Byron's declaration that if they were married, he and the Co...Walter Savage Landor Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of B...Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		"An Irish nationalist annotating the autobiographical Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Founder of the 'United Irishmen' (1845) identifies the pseudonymous author of the '...anon LIfe of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Founder of the 'U...Print: Book
"An Irish nationalist annotating the autobiographical Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Founder of the 'United Irishmen' (1845) identifies the pseudonymous author of the '... annotations in Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Fo...Manuscript: annotations in printed text
1800-1849"And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's Penny Times' to Cobbett's Works, 'French without a ...Gerald Massey French without a MasterPrint: Book
1800-1849"And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's Penny Times' to Cobbett's Works, 'French without a ...Gerald Massey [English history]Print: Book
1800-1849"And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's Penny Times' to Cobbett's Works, 'French without a ...Gerald Massey [Roman history]Print: Book
1800-1849"And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's Penny Times' to Cobbett's Works, 'French without a ...Gerald Massey [Grecian history]Print: Book
1800-1849"Now I began to think that the crown of all desire, and the sum of all existence, was to read and get knowledge. Read, read, read! I used to read at all possible times, ...Gerald Massey [books]Print: Book
1800-1849"Now I began to think that the crown of all desire, and the sum of all existence, was to read and get knowledge. Read, read, read! I used to read at all possible times, ...Gerald Massey [books]Print: Book
1800-1849"As Kingsbury and Farrell lost no opportunity of advancing their views, I was soon possessed of a tolerable knowledge of the tenets of each. This was supplemented by the...John Bedford Leno The Northern StarPrint: Newspaper


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