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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'Spectator of Aug 7th 1915 contains an interesting article which illustrates the thoroughness of German organization for war.'Kenneth Gilbert Balmain Dewar [n/a] [n/a]SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'12 pm A new English submarine came in. By morning papers the French had won a great victory, Belgium was still holding out, while we had seized German West Africa....Leslie Richard Romer [n/a] [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'There is a short review of Professor Ansted's work in the Chambers's Journal of this month; from the specimen they give, it must be exceedingly interesting, and I shou...Eliza Ellis [n/a] [n/a]Chambers's Edinburgh JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Ahmed and I talked together and read the Quran, when he would put on his tarbush, put out his cigarette, and be careful that the Book should not be touched except ...Doreen Ingrams [n/a] [n/a]KoranPrint: Book, Read in Arabic
1900-1945'We continued riding towards Leijun over the flat, stony plateau with scarcely a shrub to break the monotony. It was so monotonous that I read an "Argosy" Magazine ...Doreen Ingrams [n/a] [n/a]Argosy MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'An imaginative aunt who, for my ninth birthday, sent a copy of the "Arabian Nights", was, I suppose, the original cause of trouble. Unfostered and unnoticed, the l...Freya Stark [n/a] [n/a]The Arabian Nights' EntertainmentPrint: Book
1900-1945'As we sat waiting for dinner and discussing religion, our first hostile impressions were gradually smoothed away. I recited the opening chapter of the Quran and pr...Freya Stark [n/a] [n/a]KoranUnknown
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
1900-1945'When we had looked over the crumbling edge, the population took us to their mosque, in whose ruin a wooden minbar with date carved upon it gave the presumable age ...Freya Stark [n/a] [n/a]KoranUnknown
1900-1945'In the evening I would take one or the other of my companions [...] to the harims I knew, to meet again the sayyid's lovely wife, and the singers from Ghurfa, and ...Freya Stark [n/a] [n/a]KoranManuscript: Sheet, Parchment
1900-1945'In the evenings, if I have no one else below, I climb upstairs to sit in comfort except for mosquitoes - enormous creatures with white rings round their legs - tha...Gertrude Caton-Thompson [n/a] [n/a]Time and TidePrint: Serial / periodical, weekly magazine
1900-1945'In the evenings, if I have no one else below, I climb upstairs to sit in comfort except for mosquitoes - enormous creatures with white rings round their legs - tha...Gertrude Caton-Thompson [n/a] [n/a]SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical, weekly magazine
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]Sunday PictorialPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Last night I sent a field service card just to let you know that I received the parcel alright on Sunday. It was packed very well. There was a lot of stuff in it, ...Thomas Wainwright [n/a] [n/a]Ludlow Advertiser and Craven Arms GazettePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'You will be wondering why I am not writing. I have not found the time for several days to write letters. Other things have taken my spare hours, or I have felt tir...Thomas Wainwright [n/a] [n/a]Ludlow Advertiser and Craven Arms GazettePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'It is now about 2am. Yesterday evening when I got up I discovered a parcel waiting for me. I opened it in semi darkness and was not able to make out all the contents, ...Thomas Wainwright [n/a] [n/a]Ludlow Advertiser and Craven Arms GazettePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Young Corbishley's letter in the Advertiser was interesting about his march into Palestine. I wrote to Mr Corbishley a week or so back for the address of the ones ...Thomas Wainwright [n/a] [n/a]Ludlow Advertiser and Craven Arms GazettePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'This afternoon I was off duty, so went to the cliffs on the other side of the village. Got down behind a hedge in the shade and read "Cycling". Many German and Chi...Thomas Wainwright [n/a] [n/a]CyclingPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945' ... this is being written in a cellar which is my present billet. The house which stood overhead was rendered a ruin a long time ago and the bricks etc make a thi...Thomas Wainwright [n/a] [n/a]Continental Daily MailPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'During my sojourn on the Rio Negro letters and papers reached me only at rare intervals. On one occasion I passed nearly two months without seeing a newspaper. I r...William Henry Hudson [n/a] [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper


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