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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'Reads Daily Herald. Likes best and spends most time on the racing and sports page. Considers the other stuff a lot of tripe.' Daily HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Reads Evening News and Sunday Chronicle. Likes best any sort of outspoken article that's exposing anything, and sport. Reason:' tickles me, I suppose.' Spends most ti... Sunday ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Reads Evening News and Sunday Chronicle. Likes best any sort of outspoken article that's exposing anything, and sport. Reason:' tickles me, I suppose.' Spends most ti... Evening NewsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Reads part. "This is very interesting". Reads carefully. "Of course it was ridiculous jamming all foreigners into concentration camps. I call that a good leaflet -very i... anonInternees LeafletPrint: Pamphlet
1900-1945'Reads the front page, turns to the back, looks at the cartoon intently as if trying to understand it; then opens it and says, "What's all this?" "Have I got to read it a... anonInternees LeafletPrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849'Real Beauty' 'The Charms which [erased] blooming beauty shares/...'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxThomas FitzgeraldA Song [The Charms Which Blooming Beauty Shows]Unknown
1600-1699'reasons out of Aristotle Mechanicks which I had very lately read' [explain a vision].Henry More AristotleMechanicksPrint: Book
1800-1849'Recd 2 papers from WM yesterday morning, the Examiner not come to hand all this week... I see Taylor, the orator, Philosopher and Fool has been obliged to find Bail for ...Robert Sharp n/a[a newspaper, probably The Times]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Recd a parcel from William last night. I was at the time reading Boswell's Life of Johnson, but it was immediately laid down, for the entertainment I anticipated, from h...Robert Sharp James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Recd a parcel from William... [Cobbett] seems to bear it admirably for he says it was a triumph...'Robert Sharp William CobbettPolitical RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Recd a parcel from WM last night, containing new cravats. Cobbett is most fierce on Mr Hume, but what good will he do? For my part I am sorry to see the mighty fallen so...Robert Sharp William CobbettPolitical RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Recd by the Carrier last night from WM the Judgement of Sir John Nichols, on the burial of Persons baptized by Dissenters. I am glad to find that the survivors of such p...Robert Sharp John Nicholl[The Judgement Delivered December 11th 1809...]Print: Book
1800-1849'Recd the Courier this morning with an account of the Death of Mr Canning...'Robert Sharp The CourierPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Recd this morning a small parcel from WM I think Cobbett's greatest antipathy at present...'Robert Sharp William CobbettPolitical RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Recd two Papers this morning, and was like the Ass between the bundles of Hay, not knowing which to begin to read first, however I even thought it was as well to begin i...Robert Sharp n/a[two newspapers] OR The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Received Scots Worthies, without notes. However, ‘tis a rotten book, and not worth a rush at best.'Robert Louis Stevenson John HowieThe Scots WorthiesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Received a letter from Emma and some papers from Joe. In Emma's letter there was an Extraordinary published by one of the Melbourne papers which contained the news of t...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][newspaper cutting]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Received a number of Ovens & Murray Advertisers this morning which however contained little of any consequence that I had not heard before'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Received a number of papers from Beechworth. The Ovens & Murray has I think become rather duller since it has appeared daily. It is not to be wondered at for it must be ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Received a parcel from Elsie containing tobacco (most welcome), papers and a little book of war poems called [italics] Counter-attack [end italics] by Siegfried Sassoon....Albert John Martin Siegfried SassoonCounter-Attack and Other PoemsPrint: Book


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