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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'"The Syonan Times" says there is to be a public holiday today for the half-anniversary of the New Birth of Malaya.'Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Times" says very naively that the essay competition on Nipponese culture was very disappointing. There were only 45 entries: no first and second prizes will ...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Times" is exciting itself over the surplus women, as revealed by the census - 102 per 1,000, I believe, to be exact! They were quite nice to us in a leading articl...Vera Brittain The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'"The Times" newspaper was taken in daily, and it was the office of each compositor in town to read the debates and leaders aloud for the benefit of the rest. When it cam...Charles Manby Smith [n/a]The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899
1900-1945		'"The words I didn't understand I just skipped over, yet managed to get a good idea of what the story was about", wrote James Murray, the son of a Scottish shoemaker. "By...James Murray Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'"The words I didn't understand I just skipped over, yet managed to get a good idea of what the story was about", wrote James Murray, the son of a Scottish shoemaker. "By...James Murray Charles Dickens[novels]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'"The words I didn't understand I just skipped over, yet managed to get a good idea of what the story was about", wrote James Murray, the son of a Scottish shoemaker. "By...James Murray Robert Michael Ballantyne[novels]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'"The words I didn't understand I just skipped over, yet managed to get a good idea of what the story was about", wrote James Murray, the son of a Scottish shoemaker. "By...James Murray William Henry Giles Kingston[novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'"Thinking back, I am amazed at the amount of English literature we absorbed in those four years", recalled Ethel Clark, a Gloucester railway worker's daughter, "and I pa...Ethel Clark Walter Scott Print: Book
1900-1945'"Thinking back, I am amazed at the amount of English literature we absorbed in those four years", recalled Ethel Clark, a Gloucester railway worker's daughter, "and I pa...Ethel Clark William Makepeace Thackeray Print: Book
1900-1945'"Thinking back, I am amazed at the amount of English literature we absorbed in those four years", recalled Ethel Clark, a Gloucester railway worker's daughter, "and I pa...Ethel Clark Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Print: Book
1900-1945'"Thinking back, I am amazed at the amount of English literature we absorbed in those four years", recalled Ethel Clark, a Gloucester railway worker's daughter, "and I pa...Ethel Clark Charles Dickens Print: Book
1900-1945'"Thinking back, I am amazed at the amount of English literature we absorbed in those four years", recalled Ethel Clark, a Gloucester railway worker's daughter, "and I pa...Ethel Clark Matthew Arnold Print: Book
1900-1945'"Thinking back, I am amazed at the amount of English literature we absorbed in those four years", recalled Ethel Clark, a Gloucester railway worker's daughter, "and I pa...Ethel Clark William Shakespeare Print: Book
1900-1945'"Thinking back, I am amazed at the amount of English literature we absorbed in those four years", recalled Ethel Clark, a Gloucester railway worker's daughter, "and I pa...Ethel Clark Harriet Beecher Stowe Print: Book
1900-1945'"Thinking back, I am amazed at the amount of English literature we absorbed in those four years", recalled Ethel Clark, a Gloucester railway worker's daughter, "and I pa...Ethel Clark Rudyard Kipling Print: Book
1900-1945'"This Above All", Eric Knight. Believe me I lived and smelt through that book all the horrors of nights and days of bombing and Dunkirk conveys and putrid dressings and ...Eric KnightThis Above AllPrint: Book
1900-1945'"This book [Dr Foote's Plain Home Talk and Cyclopaedia) made a great impression on me", wrote Glasgow foundryworker Thomas Bell "And I handed it round my workmates until...Thomas Bell Edward Bliss FootePlain Home Talk and CyclopaediaPrint: Book
1850-1899'"Victor Hugo" has come; I like all your alterations vastly, except one which I don?t like, tho? I own something was needed there also.'Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson"Victor Hugo's Romances"Print: Proof copy of RLS?s essay on ?Victor Hugo?s Romances?
1900-1945'"We face a choice of evils," H. N. Brailsford had written in "The New Clarion" after the break-up of the Disarmament Conference.'Vera Brittain H. N. BrailsfordThe New ClarionPrint: Newspaper


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