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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
 
1800-1849'all I have read today is Moores Almanack for the account of the weather which speaks of rain tho it is very hot.John Clare Moore's AlmanackPrint: Pamphlet, almanack
1700-1799'Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries: Several of the farmers read history, magazines and newspapers. The vulgar read almost nothing but books on religious subjects'.the people of Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries [history]Print: Book
1700-1799'Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries: Several of the farmers read history, magazines and newspapers. The vulgar read almost nothing but books on religious subjects'.the people of Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries [magazines]Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries: Several of the farmers read history, magazines and newspapers. The vulgar read almost nothing but books on religious subjects'.the people of Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries [religious books]Print: Book
1700-1799'Wigtown:...Not only the farmers ,but many of the tradesmen, read the newspapers'the people of Wigtown [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849till noon returnd & read snatches in several poets & the Song of Solomon thought the supposed illusions in that luscious poem to our saviour very overstrained....'.John Clare 'the Song Solomon'Print: Unknown
1900-1945Thursday 14 March 1915: 'If I'd written this diary last night which I was too excited to do, I should have left a row of question marks at the end. What excited me was th...Virginia Woolf StarPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Look'd over the "Human Heart" the title has little connection with the contents- it displays the art of book making in half filld pages & fine paper'John Clare The Human HeartPrint: Book
1800-1849'During the Napoleonic Wars, Scottish cotton-spinner Charles Campbell earned 8s. to 10s. a week, but set aside a few pennies for a subscription library, where he read his...Charles Campbell [travels]Print: Book
1800-1849'During the Napoleonic Wars, Scottish cotton-spinner Charles Campbell earned 8s. to 10s. a week, but set aside a few pennies for a subscription library, where he read his...Charles Campbell [history]Print: Book
1800-1849'During the Napoleonic Wars, Scottish cotton-spinner Charles Campbell earned 8s. to 10s. a week, but set aside a few pennies for a subscription library, where he read his...Charles Campbell [English classics]Print: Book
1800-1849'read in the testamentthe Epistle of St John I love that simple hearted expression of brotherly affection & love'John Clare Epistle of St JohnPrint: Book
1800-1849'this morning a play bill was thrown into my house with this pompous blunder on the face of it [...].John Clare [playbill]Print: Handbill, playbill
1700-1799Read the NewsJohn Yeoman  Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'The political awakening of J.R. Clynes came when three old blind men paid him 3d a week to read the newspapers to them: "Reading aloud was a new joy to me. Some of the ...J.R. Clynes [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799after [a morning walk] I Read the News.John Yeoman  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799home [from going to see the King's weekly procession at Kew] & Read the NewsJohn Yeoman  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'The son of a Methodist farm worker, he studied Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" and "The Two Covenants".'Joseph Mayett The Two CovenantsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be satisfied in their situation an not to murmur at the dispensations of providence... those kinds of books were o...Joseph Mayett The Farmer's FiresidePrint: Book
1700-1799May 24th. My black mare fell down and threw me over her head, but God be praysed I got not the least harm. I rode a slow trot reading the Northampton news paper [...] it ...William Coe The Northampton MercuryPrint: Newspaper


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