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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'May finished Only a Governess. Pr. ¼ past 9. 1 Cor vii.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook 1 Corinthians 7Print: BookUnknown
1900-1945'I ... took an active part in the work of the [Old Meeting Church] and became a Sunday School teacher. Happily, the class of small boys I was called on to manage could be...Vero Walter Garratt BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'Had an earnest talk with Outram — said he still had the text book I gave him years ago, but had no time for religion. Often took up his bible but was interrupted.' BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'Am enjoying Leviticus with commentaries in the morning.'Albert Ruskin Cook [n/a] [n/a]Bible (Leviticus)Print: Book
1900-1945'Enjoyed Ps 39.'Albert Ruskin Cook [n/a] [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
[...]
B. General.
Hist.y of our own Times. '85–11. Gooch
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Felix Holt – [G...		Albert Ruskin Cook James Hastings (ed.)Great Texts of the Bible: PsalmsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read and looked at Joe's Bible after Kirk. Bed v.tired.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Hilliers”, Northcourt Avenue. 18.XI.40
    Rosamund Wallis in the chair.

[...]

4. Roger Moore gave us a biographical s...		Roger Moore Book of RuthPrint: Book
1900-1945'As I was watching the columns of earth and smoke, there was suddenly a whirring sound and a piece of iron plonked into the mud at my feet, where it lay sizzling. It was ...Hugo Armitage The New TestamentPrint: Book
1900-1945'We were too busy at the counter to join ... the [church] service, but once I worked down in a lull and talked a bit to one lad who was quitely reading his Testament; but... The New TestamentPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday. Morn. did little German. Aft. Read 5 ch. Matthew. 5 pm bath. 7-8 whist -2. Bought a bag 8½ Expected to leave Paderborn. Read a Tale of Two Cities (Dick)'William Thomas Gospel of MatthewPrint: Book
1900-1945‘This morning that extraordinarily unequal collection "The Golden Treasury" came out of its hiding place, and served to astonish me once more with its lasting wonders...Ivor Bertie Gurney The Bible (New Testament)Print: Book
1900-1945‘We had Church Parade this morning. One Major read the Lesson and another played the organ. This afternoon I have been reading a book which I just received from Lesli...Wilfrid Owen BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945‘Sorry I forgot to mail you my opinion of Israel Zangwill. I admire him enormously and like him about as much. He reminds me often of the author of Revelations in his...Charles Hamilton Sorley Bible (Revelations)Print: Book
1900-1945'Please don't think I am pessimistic I'm only fed up with the blooming rain. We are absolutely bound to win this year if the weather holds good ... Thanks very much...John Lawton New TestamentPrint: Book
1900-1945'It was a change to spend such a lazy day. We read the Apocrypha, I remember, and wandered a little, but not very far afield, not much further than the spring where...Vita Sackville-West unknown unknownBible - the ApocryphaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Then Yusuf, who is ten, read out the Gospel. He stood straight with the lighted candle in his hand, his face full of seriousness, an impressive little figure under...Freya Stark [n/a] [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945I have just been reading a rather nice version of Genesis in Arabic. It says that Gabriel was sent to the Earth to bring a bit of clay for the making of Adam: but t...Freya Stark [n/a] [n/a]Bible (Genesis)
My brother and I rose in the mornings about four o'clock, to pray with each other and read the Scriptures; and oh what a power was at work in our hearts! 'Scriptures'Print: Book
'RAMSAY. "I suppose Homer's 'Iliad' to be a collection of pieces which had been written before his time. I should like to see a translation of it in poetical prose like t...Allan Ramsay [books of Job and Ruth]Print: Book


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