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

	1900-1945	'Meeting held at School House. 18th October 1940. R. D. L. Moore in the Chair. [...] 2. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.	Bruce Dilks	St. John Ervine	Robert's Wife	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Meeting held at School House. 18th October 1940. R. D. L. Moore in the Chair. [...] 2. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.	Roger Moore	St. John Ervine	Robert's Wife	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Meeting held at School House. 18th October 1940. R. D. L. Moore in the Chair. [...] 2. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.	Francis E. Pollard	St. John Ervine	Robert's Wife	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Meeting held at School House. 18th October 1940. R. D. L. Moore in the Chair. [...] 2. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.	Edith B. Smith	St. John Ervine	Robert's Wife	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Meeting held at School House. 18th October 1940. R. D. L. Moore in the Chair. [...] 2. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.	Mary Pollard	St. John Ervine	Robert's Wife	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Meeting held at School House. 18th October 1940. R. D. L. Moore in the Chair. [...] 2. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.	Howard Smith	St. John Ervine	Robert's Wife	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Meeting held at School House. 18th October 1940. R. D. L. Moore in the Chair. [...] 2. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.	Arnold Joselin	St. John Ervine	Robert's Wife	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'A South Wales miner, raised in an orphanage, acknowledged that "Robin Hood was our patron saint, or ideal. We sincerely believed in robbing the rich to help the poor". (...		anon	Robin Hood	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	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
	1850-1899	[Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family]	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Henry Mayhew interviews a female crossing sweeper: "When my sight was better I used to be very partial to reading; but I can't see the print now, sir. I used to read t...	Mary	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	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	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Dorothy Wordsworth to William Wordsworth, 23 April 1812: 'John is certainly much quicker in reading than he was. He has read very hard and taken up the Book frequently hi...	John Wordsworth	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'"I next succeeded in discovering for myself a child's book, of not less interest than even The Iliad." It was Pilgrim's Progress, with wonderful woodcut illustrations. A...	Hugh Miller	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Soldier's son Joseph Barker... first read the Bible "chiefly as a work of history and was very greatly delighted with many of its stories... One effect was to lead me to...	Joseph Barker	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'the only fiction [Robert] Roberts read as a boy was an abridged Welsh-language Robinson Crusoe'	Robert Roberts	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'As a child, William Heaton the Yorkshire weaver-poet, "rambled with Christian from his home in the wilderness to the Celestial City; mused over his hair-breadth escapes,...	William Heaton	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'For John Clare [Robinson Crusoe] was "the first book of any merit I got hold of after I could read", and it set in motion an early ferment: "New ideas from the perusal o...	John Clare	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped', 'Little Women', 'David Copperfield', 'Ivanhoe', 'Ro...	Patricia Beer	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'"The words I didn't understand I just skipped over, yet managed to get a good idea of what the story was about", wrote James Murray, the son of a Scottish shoemaker. "By...	James Murray	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book

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