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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
 
1900-1945'16th. October. Thrown out at Shorncliffe, above Folkestone. Very stormy day with heavy seas running. Informed that the boat would not cross today, so took an exceedingly...Robert Lindsay Mackay James Shirley'Death the Leveller'Print: Unknown
1900-1945'17th February 1929 (Sunday). After a long and very cosy dinner I started for home. I missed the train owing to my having to climb the great gate as B. had forgotten h...Gerald Moore Romain RollandLes AmisPrint: Book
1900-1945'17th March 1929 (Sunday). Slept until 12 ! In the afternoon read my papers and ?Punch?. Everyone out, drawn by the splendid weather.' Gerald Moore [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'17th March 1929 (Sunday). Slept until 12 ! In the afternoon read my papers and ?Punch?. Everyone out, drawn by the splendid weather.' Gerald Moore Punch, or the London CharivariPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'17th March, Thursday. The books in my room are an interesting lot, and I will be able to resume reading. I have almost given it up since I came to France. Now, to b...Gerald Moore Claude Farr?reLes CivilisPrint: Book
1900-1945'17th September 1928. The Geneva conference between the six powers has ended in the happy decision that the Rhineland evacuation question may now be discussed. Good G...Gerald Moore Le JournalPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'17th September 1928. [...] The new piece by Maurice Rostand is getting a very favourable press and I would like to see it. It is entitled ?Napoleon IV? and is about...Gerald Moore W.W. JacobsThe CastawaysPrint: Book
1900-1945'17th September 1928. [...] The new piece by Maurice Rostand is getting a very favourable press and I would like to see it. It is entitled ?Napoleon IV? and is about...Gerald Moore W.W. JacobsDeep WatersPrint: Book
1900-1945'17th September 1928. [...] The new piece by Maurice Rostand is getting a very favourable press and I would like to see it. It is entitled ?Napoleon IV? and is about...Gerald Moore Cecil ChestertonThe History of the United StatesPrint: Book
1800-1849'1831' 'Farewell to 1831 year of Whig Ministry of Shen reform... Extracted from Fraser's Magazine by Benj. Beanlands'Benjamin Beanlands [n/a]Fraser's Magazine For Town and CountryPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'1888. At Easter Miss Mary Anderson [actress] was with us again and he [Tennyson] read to her, whom he admired much, and held to be "the flower of girlhood," "The Leper's...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe Leper's BrideManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'18th February, Thursday. The packet steamed into the harbour backwards. Another rush across the quay and through the Customs Shed ? pas d?emb?tements ? and, having f...Gerald Moore Advertisements in FrenchPrint: Advertisement
1900-1945'18th January, Tuesday. ?The Decay of Capitalist Civilisation? (S & B Webb) I was up till late last night finishing my paper for Wednesday.' Gerald Moore Sidney and Beatrice WebbThe Decay of Capitalist CivilisationPrint: Book
1900-1945'1943 My Favourite: Books: "How Green Was my Valley", "Witch in the Wood". Authors: T.H.White, Hugh Walpole Poems: "Christabel", "Lotus Eaters" Writers: Shaw, Shakesp...Hilary Spalding Richard LlewellynHow Green Was My ValleyPrint: Book
1900-1945'1943 My Favourite: Books: "How Green Was my Valley", "Witch in the Wood". Authors: T.H.White, Hugh Walpole Poems: "Christabel", "Lotus Eaters" Writers: Shaw, Shakesp...Hilary Spalding John BuchanWitch WoodPrint: Book
1900-1945'1943 My Favourite: Books: "How Green Was my Valley", "Witch in the Wood". Authors: T.H.White, Hugh Walpole Poems: "Christabel", "Lotus Eaters" Writers: Shaw, Shakesp...Hilary Spalding Samuel Taylor ColeridgeChristabelPrint: Book
1900-1945'1943 My Favourite: Books: "How Green Was my Valley", "Witch in the Wood". Authors: T.H.White, Hugh Walpole Poems: "Christabel", "Lotus Eaters" Writers: Shaw, Shakesp...Hilary Spalding Alfred, Lord TennysonLotos Eaters, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'1943 My Favourite: Books: "How Green Was my Valley", "Witch in the Wood". Authors: T.H.White, Hugh Walpole Poems: "Christabel", "Lotus Eaters" Writers: Shaw, Shakesp...Hilary Spalding George Bernard Shaw[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'1943 My Favourite: Books: "How Green Was my Valley", "Witch in the Wood". Authors: T.H.White, Hugh Walpole Poems: "Christabel", "Lotus Eaters" Writers: Shaw, Shakesp...Hilary Spalding William Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'1944 My Favourite: Books: "Peter Abelard". "The Story of San Michele" Authors: Henry Williamson, B. Nichols Poems: Hiawatha. Arabia Writers: Shaw. Dorothy Sayers'.Hilary Spalding Axel MuntheStory of San Michele, ThePrint: Book


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