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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
 
1500-1599
1600-1699		She 'alledged many Scriptures, which she had never read, but only tumbling and tossing over the Bible ... Shee had a custome in tumbling over of the Bible, to put her fin...Joan Drake BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'The first business of the morning being over [rolling up hammocks], the men break into groups or read. Many a one, to our astonishment, took his Bible and began reading ...prisoners on board the 'Defence' hulk [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899Schoolroom for boy prisoners at Tothill Fields: 'At the time of our entry, the warder schoolmaster was hearing the boys read aloud from the Bible, the class standing in ...boys in prison [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899Schoolroom in the female prison at Tothill Fields: 'The warder, to let us see the acquirements of her scholars, bade one of them read a passage from the Bible, that each...anon [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899Schoolroom for juvenile males at Wandsworth Prison: 'One little pale-faced boy was reading his lesson to his kind-hearted teacher... One boy had copied from a Bible, whi...anon [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899Adult (male) school at Wandsworth held in the prison chapel, 43 in the class, engaged in a Bible lesson: 'Others he commended in a kind spirit for the manner in which th...male prisoners at Wandsworth [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'I should have told you, in the first place, that the Eastern manners give us a great light into many Scripture passages, that appear odd to us, their phrases being commo...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945Description of first month spent in Winchester Prison after sentence: 'Nearly twenty-three hours out of every twenty-four were spent in strict cellular confinement, with...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'I endeavoured to counteract this depression by reading the Bible, the only book I had besides a Prayer Book and a Protestant manual called the "Narrow Way", and by forci...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'I often found peace in the pages of Ecclesiastes or Isaiah, or in the writings of men whom Barry has described as the heralds of revolt - John Inglesant, George Eliot, C...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'The evening was very stupid as both Betsey and Justine did not talk one being asleep and the other busily employed reading the bible' [according to Harriet Wynne]Justina Wynne [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'Whenever I read in St Paul's Epistle on justification by faith alone, my good mistress would read in the Epistle of St James, such passages as say that a man is not just...James Lackington BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'I often privately took the Bible to bed with me, and in the long summer mornings read for hours together in bed'.James Lackington BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Then I became seized with a desire to know something about religion, and I read the commandments over and over again, as well as those portions of the Bible which I coul...Mark Jeffrey [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Extract from the journal of Adam Dodd: 'When I first came on board the A-, I was as thoughtless as anyone on board; but being soon afterwards made a teacher of a class, ...Adam Dodd [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Short way into the voyage, surgeon receives a letter from one of the convicts: 'He then mentions the influence which the perusal since he came on board of some treatise ...anon [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Short way into the voyage, surgeon receives a letter from one of the convicts: 'He then mentions the influence which the perusal since he came on board of some treatise ...Colin Arrott Browning [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Confession of invalid convict George Day: 'I hope I prayed but found little peace, until I heard the doctor pressing on our attention the words of God, contained in the ...Colin Arrott Browning [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Conversion of convict J- V-; when came on board the ship he was a convinced socialist, and when appointed school teacher he wanted to use the position to convince others,... [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Conversion of F.M., while greatly affected by death of fellow convict, John Williams: 'My feelings I cannot describe. I never felt the like before. But I remembered what ... [n/a]BiblePrint: Book


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