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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
 
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1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister: "I went to school to learn to write and cipher,...anon BiblePrint: Book
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1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister: "...We often had ministers to dinner and supper...anon BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'then I medetated of the sarmons, and read and spoke to Mrs Ormstone of the Chapter that was read in the morning'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'and, sonne after, when I had reed of the Bible, I dined'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'After priuat prairs I did eate my breakfast, and then I did read of the Testament, and so went to church'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'after, I did breake my fast, then I went about the house and, after, read of the bible'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'then I praied and read of the bible, and so went to dimer'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799School hours were from 9 to 12 and from 2 to 5. The mode of teaching was this. Each of the boys had a column or half a column of spelling to learn by heart every morning ...Francis Place BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799I had read a book, at that time openly sold, on every stall, called Aristotle's Master Piece, it was a thick 18 mo, with a number of badly drawn cuts in it explanatory of...Francis Place BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699For he was chosen, and sate as one of the Assessors and very often filled the Chair in the Moderators, absence, and such was his constant care, and conscientiousness in t...William Gouge BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699She desired me to pray by her, and seemed quietly to join to the end: She heard divers Psalms, and a Chapter read, and repeated part, and sung part of a Psalm her self. T...Richard Baxter BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'I Came home, where I did litle good but talked of many maters, litle concerning me, with Mrs Ormston, to whom a read a whill of the Bible'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'H.M. Tomlinson, a successful author and dockworker's son, credited his East End Board school with encouraging free expression in composition classes and giving him a sol...H.M. Tomlinson BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'merchant seaman Lennox Kerr ditched overboard his early experiments in authorship:"... writing isn't for the working man. It sets him apart. He isn't such a toiler if he...Lennox Kerr n/aBiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'then I reed a chapter of the Bible to my mother'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'after, I had reed of the bible, after to lector, and then to bed'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'after I wrett my notes in my testement and reed of the bible, then to dinner'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849All went to morning church & said the sacrement [...] Read the psalms & lessons to myself. After tea, read aloud sermon 15 and...my aunt read aloud 17, Polwhele.Anne Lister BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas....questionaire respondent n/aBiblePrint: Book
1900-1945[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machine file cutter, age twenty-five... Has read The Old Curiosity Shop, Innocents Abroad, Th...questionaire respondent n/aBiblePrint: Book


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