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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 2.3.43
S. A. Reynolds in the chair.
1. Minutes of the last meeting were read & approved.

[...] ...		Francis E. Pollard Francis E. PollardParty PoliticsManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage. 8th May ’43
    Muriel Stevens in the Chair
1. Minutes of last meeting read & signed

[...] ...		Francis E. Pollard Francis E. Pollard[a description of Samuel Johnson’s circle]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 72, Shinfield Road, 14th November 1942 Arnold Joselin in the Chair
2. In the absence of the Secretary, the Treasurer [Bruce Dilks] took it upo...		Francis E. Pollard Francis E. Pollard[on the thought and writing of the Age of Pericles...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 72 Shinfield Road. 5th May 1941
A. G Joselin in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved

2. Apolo...		Francis E. Pollard Francis E. Pollard[an introduction to Matthew Arnold’s poetry, his t...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Hilliers”, Northcourt Avenue. 18.XI.40
    Rosamund Wallis in the chair.

[...]

5. Mary S. W. Polla...		Francis E. Pollard Francis E. Pollard[On the poetry of John Keats]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 17.1.39 Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
3. A letter from R. H....		Francis E. Pollard Francis E. Pollard[A sketch of H. G. Wells’s life, character, belief...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 219 King’s Rd 20. IV. 1939.
    Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.

1. Opening the subject of Euripides, F. E. Pollard gave some account of...		Francis E. Pollard Francis E. Pollard[Essay on Athens in the Fifth Century B.C.]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue: 24. 11. 39.
    A Bruce Dilks in the chair.

1. Minutes of last [two meetings] read & approved...		Francis E. Pollard Francis E. Pollard[A brief introduction to American Literature]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Can you tell me anything of a book, published or rather printed, by the late Earl of Bridgewater at his press in Paris. It was in the French language - & contained all t...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Francis Henry EgertonApercu Historique et genealogiquePrint: Book
1850-1899'Is Mr Child married? I am always wanting to write & thank him for his Ballads, which I delight in' [she then deprecates her own letter writing style and says she is put ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Francis James ChildBalladsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Books read from Feby 16th/18

King Richard II    Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream    do.
Henry the Eighth    do.
As You Lik...		Edward Henry Jones Francis Marion CrawfordA Roman SingerPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'You say "Arethusa" is lovely: have you bought it or got a copy from the library? In any case I am very glad you have started it. Isn't Omobono a lovely character, ...Clive Staples Lewis Francis Marion CrawfordArethusaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
[...]
Minor Horrors of present war.
Staying the Plague – Harman
Military Orthopedics – Jones
...		Albert Ruskin Cook Francis Seymour KiddCommon Diseases of the Male UrethraPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 7 Marlborough Avenue 22/10/45
Arnold G. Joselin in the chair

1. The minutes of the previous meeting were read & signed.

...		Howard Smith Francis Sydney SmytheCamp 6: An Account of the 1933 Mount Everest Exped...Print: Book
1900-1945'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a...Philip Inman Francis Turner PalgraveGolden Treasury (ed.)Print: Book
1900-1945'In 1955 Manny Shinwell - who read all of Palgrave's Golden Treasury to his children, and had consoled himself in prison with Keats and Tennyson - regretted that that poe...Emmanuel (Manny) Shinwell Francis Turner PalgraveGolden Treasury of English Song and LyricsPrint: Book
1900-1945'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford University. He credited his success largely to his English ma...Ralph Finn Francis Turner PalgraveGolden Treasury of English Songs and LyricsPrint: Book
1900-1945‘ [ … ] it was nice … to get the "Evening Standard" packed up with the rest [of the parcel]. I do adore newspapers in certain moods. For frivolling time away they are...Ivor Bertie Gurney Francis Turner PalgraveGolden Treasury of English Songs and LyricsPrint: Book
1900-1945‘This morning that extraordinarily unequal collection "The Golden Treasury" came out of its hiding place, and served to astonish me once more with its lasting wonders...Ivor Bertie Gurney Francis Turner Palgrave (ed)Golden Treasury of English Songs and LyricsPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Garratt] spent his free evenings in Birmingham's Central Free Library reading Homer, Epitectus, Longius and Plato's Dialogues, a classical education which further undem...V.W. Garratt Francis Turner Palgrave (ed.)The Golden TreasuryPrint: Book


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