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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1700-1799 1800-1849	'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spacious windows of this shop? were exhibited numerous song...	Samuel Bamford	anon	Account of the Lancashire witches	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spacious windows of this shop? were exhibited numerous song...	Samuel Bamford	anon	The witches of the woodlands	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spacious windows of this shop? were exhibited numerous song...	Samuel Bamford	anon	Robin Hood's Songs	Print: Book, Broadsheet
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spacious windows of this shop? were exhibited numerous song...	Samuel Bamford	anon	The Ballad of Chevy Chase	Print: Book, Broadsheet
	1700-1799 1800-1849	?At length, "Robinson Crusoe" ? that ever-exciting day dream of boys ? fell in our way. I read it to him, as I had done the others, and for a long time both Sam?s ideas a...	Samuel Bamford	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]: Three entries (Perth, Haddington and Fife & Kinross) have been annotated with some extra information ex. from the Perth entry 'At a small village calld [sic...	Francis Wemyss	Mostyn John Armstrong	Scotch Atlas; or description of the kingdom of Sco...	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	?[my master] also was a good scholar and took great pains to teach me in reading and here I made a Considerable progress in reading for although I had heedlessly neglecte...	Joseph Mayett	[unknown]	[various]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	?on the Thursday evening following I went to my fathers to the meeting with an intention to stay out all night with a person that was not of very good Character so I went...	Joseph Mayett	John Rippon	A Selection of Hymns from the Best Authors Includi...	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'In this way I beguiled many a tedious hour at the time I am now referring to, and also during several years following, towards the close of which I thus contrived to rea...	Thomas Carter	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'In this way I beguiled many a tedious hour at the time I am now referring to, and also during several years following, towards the close of which I thus contrived to rea...	Thomas Carter	[unknown]	History of England	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]: Some blanks, left by printer, have been completed in either ink or pencil. The data entered covers numbers of crew, dates and costings. There are also copio...		Anon	Prospectus of a plan for the building and equipmen...	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'In the course of the ensuing spring (1821), I read Mr. Washington Irving's "Sketch-Book". I thought it very beautiful, and only wished that he had more fully carried his...	Thomas Carter	Mark Akenside	Pleasures of the Imagination, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	?My father, as before stated, was a reader, and amongst other books which he now read, was Pain?s [sic] "Rights of Men". He also read Pain?s [sic] "Age of Reason", and hi...	Daniel Bamford	Thomas Paine	Rights of Man	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	?My father, as before stated, was a reader, and amongst other books which he now read, was Pain?s [sic] "Rights of Men". He also read Pain?s [sic] "Age of Reason", and hi...	Daniel Bamford	[unknown]	[theological works]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]: ms notes on some 12pp, some ink, some pencil, most in English, some in Arabic. All are notes on points of grammar or translation: e.g p.8 the text 'eight de...	John Drummond Erskine	John Richardson	Grammar of the Arabick language in which the rules...	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'As to Mrs M & I, we have been, ever since we lived at Nethersole, great readers, taking each always a book at breakfast & at tea when without company in the house & also...	John Marsh	[unknown]	[various]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'As to Mrs M & I, we have been, ever since we lived at Nethersole, great readers, taking each always a book at breakfast & at tea when without company in the house & also...	Elizabeth Marsh	[unknown]	[various]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'"I had often read Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress", recalled [...] William Brown, "and considered myself like the apostate in the iron cage, and drew my own conclusions".'	William Brown	John Bunyan	Pilgrim's Progress	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'Long sections of [Thomas] Hardy's "Memoir" had been read out to two of the [radical society (?London Corresponding Society)] meetings to commemorate the acquittal of the...		Thomas Hardy	Memoir of Thomas Hardy, Founder of, and Secretary ...	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Thomas Carter on childhood reading: '"I gained the good-will of an aged woman who sold cakes, sweetmeats and fruit, and was moreover a dealer in little books [...] I had ...	Thomas Carter		storybooks	Print: Book

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