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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'Don't forget a cake & send Daily Mail every other day and Motor Cycle & Motor Cycling and the mags.'Henry William Williamson [n/a] [n/a]Motor CyclingPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Little Marjorie's birthday. The verses in Daily Light were as usual uplifting ... Much enjoyed J. 20. 19, 20 with the patients in Hope Ward.'Albert Ruskin Cook [n/a] [n/a]Bible (John)Print: BookManuscript: Telegraph cable
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'Pilot came on board & took us up the 16 miles to Beira. Landed at 3.15 pm ... had tea at the Savoy & latest telegrams & papers. There was a Times of Jan 16 & a Spectat...Albert Ruskin Cook [n/a] [n/a]The TimesPrint: NewspaperManuscript: Letter, telegram
1900-1945'Pilot came on board & took us up the 16 miles to Beira. Landed at 3.15 pm ... had tea at the Savoy & latest telegrams & papers. There was a Times of Jan 16 & a Spectat...Albert Ruskin Cook [n/a] [n/a]SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter, telegram
1900-1945'On July 5th [1918] Katharine [Cook] saw Albert [Ruskin Cook] off from Paddington station. As the train pulled out Albert was "glad to have a corner seat and a copy of ...Albert Ruskin Cook [n/a] [n/a]The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Got to bed at about midnight again after finding a landscape of Messines and Wulverghem in our house in an illustrated Paper drawn for the same view or nearly so as on...Thomas Stafford Wollocombe [n/a] [n/a]Daily GraphicPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'In the afternoon, at a tennis party at Blair Castle, a bicycle orderly arrives with an urgent telegram for my battalion. Being the senior Cameronian officer present ...James Lochhead Jack [n/a] [n/a][telegram]Manuscript: telegram
1900-1945'Did you read Lloyd George's speech the other day introducing the remark about the German potato bread — "I fear that potato bread more than all Von Kluck's strategy". ...Clive Staples Lewis [n/a] [n/a]The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945(1) 'I wish you would get that Academy book which one always finds in a dentist's waiting room so that we could compare notes. If you do you must particularly notice "T...Clive Staples Lewis [n/a] [n/a]The Royal Academy IllustratedPrint: Book
1900-1945'Did you see a long article in the Times Literary Supplement about the "Magic Flute" which is on at the Shaftesbury? How I wish I could go up and hear it and also "Tris...Clive Staples Lewis [n/a] [n/a]Times Literary SupplementPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The journey home was absolutely damnable: I had to wait an hour at Letterkenny, and an hour and a quarter at Strabane. You may judge of my boredom when I tell you that...Clive Staples Lewis [n/a] [n/a]The Novel MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'That is rather a fine article on Hakluyt in this week's Literary Supplement and a good deal of it might stand as an apology - in the Newman sense of course — for my ho...Clive Staples Lewis [n/a] [n/a]Times Literary SupplementPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I was also much struck with many parts of the Bible. My favourite chapters were the xv. of the 1 Ep. of Corinthians; the xi of Hebrews; Ezekiel's vision; and most of t...John Leatherland [n/a] [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Speaking of the Quarterly Review, a "stray number" of which was a prize I once found on the counter of a grocer, and which I rescued from the ignominious fate of being...John Leatherland [n/a] [n/a]Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'As you say, Mother, the war does not look like ending for a long time yet. You never want to read the Daily Mail. It is almost a pro German paper. There are things...Thomas Wainwright [n/a] [n/a]Daily MailPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Thanks for sending the socks and gloves received yesterday, and for the letter which came the day before. The socks are quite the thing, and the gloves came in goo...Thomas Wainwright [n/a] [n/a]Weekly NewsPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I got out of the mine about 5-30 had my dinner at once & then read several chapters in St Marks gospel ...'James Bennetts Williams [n/a] [n/a]Bible (Mark)Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I read a sermon from the Christian Age, then had a cup of tea, now going to bed about 9 P.M.'James Bennetts Williams [n/a] [n/a]Christian AgePrint: Newspaper


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