The Reading Experience Database 1450-1945
(RED)

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The Reading Experience Database (RED) was launched in 1996 at the UK Open University. Its mission is to accumulate as much data as possible about the reading experiences of British subjects from 1450 to 1945.

The RED team would like you to contribute information to the database by completing a RED form. Follow the links on the left for more information about members of the team, what we mean by a ‘reading experience’, what sorts of data we’re looking for, how you can contribute, and to view the latest news on how RED is progressing.

Follow this link to browse and search the Reading Experience Database.

The Summer '09 issue of REDLetter is available online now.

Follow this link to download a copy of our project flier:
Word (748 KB); PDF (760 KB).

 

'Practical Hints to Young Females, on the Duties of a Wife, a Mother, and a Mistress of a Family', by Mrs Taylor of Ongar (1822) from: William Hone, ‘The Yearbook’, 1832  'A Mother's Portrait: sketched soon after her Decease, for the Study of her Children by their Surviving Parent' (1823)