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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
 
1800-1849Thomas Carter on reading enabled at his Protestant Dissenting day school, where one master gave him the run of his own library: '"the books were chiefly old and odd volum...Thomas Carter The ArminianPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Thomas Carter on reading enabled at his Protestant Dissenting day school, where one master gave him the run of his own library: '"the books were chiefly old and odd volum...Thomas Carter The Gentleman's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849While living in London, the tailor Thomas Carter 'made a habit of taking his breakfast at one of the coffee shops [...] on his way to work, where he would read the previo...Thomas Carter newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799
1800-1849		'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked his way through [...] included adventure stories suc...Christopher Thomson Philip QuarllPrint: Book
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1800-1849		'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked his way through [...] included adventure stories suc...Christopher Thomson religious tractsPrint: Unknown
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1800-1849		'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked his way through [...] included adventure stories suc...Christopher Thomson Cobbett's Political RegisterPrint: Newspaper
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1800-1849		'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked his way through [...] included adventure stories suc...Christopher Thomson The Black DwarfPrint: Newspaper
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1800-1849		'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked his way through [...] included adventure stories suc...Christopher Thomson mechanics' magazinesPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Charles Shaw's dependance upon a small Sunday school library in Tunstall [...] imparted a magnificent if involuntary scope to his education: '"I read "Robinson Crusoe...Charles Shaw "boys' books"Print: Book
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1800-1849		'The Dundee Factory Boy claimed that while an apprentice shoemaker, he read, "books on nearly all the disputed questions in theology and metaphysics, books on history, be... books on theologyPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'The Dundee Factory Boy claimed that while an apprentice shoemaker, he read, "books on nearly all the disputed questions in theology and metaphysics, books on history, be... books on metaphysicsPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'The Dundee Factory Boy claimed that while an apprentice shoemaker, he read, "books on nearly all the disputed questions in theology and metaphysics, books on history, be... history booksPrint: Book
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1800-1849		'The Dundee Factory Boy claimed that while an apprentice shoemaker, he read, "books on nearly all the disputed questions in theology and metaphysics, books on history, be... books on belle lettresPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'The Dundee Factory Boy claimed that while an apprentice shoemaker, he read, "books on nearly all the disputed questions in theology and metaphysics, books on history, be... books on sciencePrint: Book
1800-1849'Thomas Wood, an apprentice mechanic, described the problems he faced [reading] in [...] dark evenings: "I had to read by firelight excepting when I could afford a 1/2d c...Thomas Wood  Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Samuel Bamford, warehouseman to a cloth printer in Manchester at the beginning of the [nineteenth] century, was able to make use of seasonal fluctuations in business to ...Samuel Bamford  Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'The anonymous Stonemason [author of "Reminiscences of a Stonemason, By a Working Man" (London, 1848)] [...] employed as a roundsman, taught his horse the route and ther...  Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines: '"Historical reading, or the grammar of some language, or translation, was my first emp...Thomas Cooper books on historyPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines: '"Historical reading, or the grammar of some language, or translation, was my first emp...Thomas Cooper foreign language grammarPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines: '"Historical reading, or the grammar of some language, or translation, was my first emp...Thomas Cooper  Print: Book


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