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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'There was a wonderful account in the "Daily Worker" of Mussolini's death, how he was shot in the head and his brain spattered out, and he looked awful, but his mistress ... [n/a][Daily Worker: Article on Mussolini's death]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'There was also a pretty good library on board [HMS Spartiate], and I suppose the chaplain, who had charge of it, had noticed that I chose books not usually read by stoke...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][unknown- various titles]Print: Book
1850-1899'There was also a thick volume bound in calf and containing a verbatim report of a controversy between a Protestant divine and a Roman Catholic priest some time about the...Edwin Muir [unknown][volume about theological debate]Print: Book
1800-1849'there was always poetry. Campbell, just then at the top of his short-lived vogue; Ossian, the unreadable of to-day; Milton - and with the New Year of 1812 a Captain Boot...Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke Thomas Campbell[poetry]Print: Book
1800-1849'there was always poetry. Campbell, just then at the top of his short-lived vogue; Ossian, the unreadable of to-day; Milton - and with the New Year of 1812 a Captain Boot...Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke Ossian (pseud.)[poetry]Print: Book
1800-1849'There was always poetry. Campbell, just then at the top of his short-lived vogue; Ossian, the unreadable of to-day; Milton -- and with the New Year of 1812 a Captain Boo...Anne Isabella Milbanke and Captain BoothbyJohn MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'There was another impression, almost as horrible, but this time it was caused by an illustration, not a story. Sutherland sometimes had sent to him by a cousin in Leith ...Edwin Muir [n/a]The Police NewsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'There was Hamish, confirmed practical joker, who donned stage make-up and a false beard and, pretending serious research, persuaded a member of the Bodleian staff to bri...Ralph Glasser John WilkesEssay on WomanManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'There was Hamish, confirmed practical joker, who donned stage make-up and a false beard and, pretending serious research, persuaded a member of the Bodleian staff to bri...Hamish John WilkesEssay on WomanPrint: Book
1900-1945'There was little time left before supper, and we decided to go for short walk to have a look at the moon. This done, we sat down for a modest and simple meal of a little... [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'There was more definite news in The Times to-day of the Cambrai victory.' Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson TimesPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'There was no need to bespeak my Patience, nor anything but my Gratitude, on reading such a Letter as you have favoured me with. Indeed I admire it; and have reason to pl...Samuel Richardson Lady Bradshaigh[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'There was nothing for me to do but lie in my sleeping bag,write up my botanical notes, read and in between whiles eat chocolate.[...] Among the papers I had received by ...Frank Smythe newspapers and weekly magazinesPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'there was nothing in the house which was worth reading, apart from the Bible, "The Pilgrim's Progress", "Gulliver's Travels", and a book by R.M. Ballantyne about Hudson ...Edwin Muir [n/a]The BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'there was nothing in the house which was worth reading, apart from the Bible, "The Pilgrim's Progress", "Gulliver's Travels", and a book by R.M. Ballantyne about Hudson ...Edwin Muir John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1850-1899'there was nothing in the house which was worth reading, apart from the Bible, "The Pilgrim's Progress", "Gulliver's Travels", and a book by R.M. Ballantyne about Hudson ...Edwin Muir Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'there was nothing in the house which was worth reading, apart from the Bible, "The Pilgrim's Progress", "Gulliver's Travels", and a book by R.M. Ballantyne about Hudson ...Edwin Muir Robert Michael BallantyneHudson Bay: or, Life in the Wilds of North AmericaPrint: Book
1900-1945'There was one German scholar with whom she had at any rate a lengthy correspondence - Dr Adolf Julicher, of Marburg, whose monumental work on the New Testament she prese...Janet Penrose Ward Adolf JulicherAn Introduction to the New TestamentPrint: Book
1900-1945'There was one German scholar with whom she had at any rate a lengthy correspondence - Dr Adolf Julicher, of Marburg, whose monumental work on the New Testament she prese...Mary Augusta Ward Adolf JulicherAn Introduction to the New TestamentPrint: Unknown, page proofs
1900-1945'There was one German scholar with whom she had at any rate a lengthy correspondence - Dr Adolf Julicher, of Marburg, whose monumental work on the New Testament she prese...Mary Augusta Ward Adolf JulicherAn Introduction to the New TestamentPrint: Book


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