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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
 
1800-1849'Savile Morton wrote to his mother that he had "come across Alfred Tennyson." "We looked out some Latin translations of his poems by Cambridge men, and read some poems of...Savile Morton and Alfred TennysonLady Georgiana FullertonEllen MiddletonPrint: Book
1850-1899'Savonarola's Sermons'George Eliot [pseud] Girolamo Savonarola[Sermons]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Saw ... in the possession of one of our men the "Spy", a periodical printed by Crome in the year 1795, in which were some veery keen things against the Ministry.'Joseph Hunter [n/a]The SpyPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Saw a Daily Mirror today which contained a photograph of Georgette, the "Belle of Bray", surrounded by some of our sergeants.'Frank Hawkings The Daily MirrorPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Saw a reciept to mend broken china in the "Stamford Mercury" [...] news papers have been famous for hyperbole and the "Stamford Mercury" has long been one at the head of...John Clare [n/a]Stamford MercuryPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Saw a very bad account of the Queen today in the Courier at Camp Hill.'Benjamin Newton n/aThe CourierPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Saw an advertisement that Mr Berry was to preach at South Street on the following Sunday and at once determined (health and circumstances permitting) to hear him. [Berr...Joseph Jenkinson [n/a][advertisement / poster for next week's preacher]Print: Advertisement, Poster
1700-1799'Saw at Book John's [In margin: A person who stands in the Market Place & sells books & of whom I have sometimes bought books] "New Memoirs of Literature for the Year 172...Joseph Hunter De La RocheNew Memoirs of LiteraturePrint: Book
1850-1899'Saw by the Ovens & Murray Advertiser that Butler is really about leaving Beechworth'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Saw by the Ovens & Murray that Alderdice & Fanny Young had got married, they have been courting for a long time'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'Saw in the Lewes newspaper of this day that on Saturday last there was several explosions heard in the bowels of the earth like an earthquake in the parishes of Waldron ...Thomas Turner Sussex Weekly Advertiser, or Lewes JournalPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Saw in the Paper this morning the official account of the Death of the Duke of York; the paper in mourning.'Robert Sharp n/a[a newspaper, probably The Times]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Saw in the Stamford paper that the lost leaf of "Dooms day book" was found and had no time to copy out the account'John Clare [n/a]Stamford MercuryPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Saw most exciting smash of an aeroplane against the buildings and tents of the 13th. Squadron R.F.C. Machine turned turtle and nose dived. Pilot unhurt. Am doing a fair ...Robert Lindsay Mackay Herbert George WellsAnn VeronicaPrint: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet
1850-1899'Saw Mr Mather, he told me there's (sic) was a letter in the Argus about my establishment. I went with him to his quarters to see the paper, and got home about eleven o c...John Buckley Castieau [unknown]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Saw promotion to Captain in Gazette.'Thomas Stafford Wollocombe London GazettePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Saw the "Sheffield Iris" paper- and in it the report of a division in the House of Commons on a motion of Sir W. Ingilby "For reducing or repealing the malt tax' ...this...Joseph Jenkinson [n/a]The Sheffield IrisPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Saw the death of Sir S. Romilly by his own hand in a feverish frenzy in the "St James' Chronicle" this morning, in consequence of the loss of his wife.'Benjamin Newton n/aSt James' ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Saw the names of three old acquaintances written with a diamond on the window of our sitting room, viz, Mrs Rewe, Mrs Price, Miss S.Hatton, Sep.1793'Benjamin Newton n/an/aManuscript: Graffito
1800-1849'Saw today in the paper that Philip's Norton was given to Mr Warner'.Benjamin Newton n/a[Local newspaper]Print: Newspaper


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