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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
 
1850-1899'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen's Institute Library and Cassell's National Library ...father of Thomas Jones The BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen's Institute Library and Cassell's National Library ...father of Thomas Jones  Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The Primitive Methodists may have been the most anti-intellectual of the Wesleyans, yet miners' MP John Johnson "found their teaching the strongest possible incentive to...John Johnson [history and philosophy]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'It was filled with a high but vague nonconformity, and tried to combine the ideals of revivalist Christianity and great literature. There were articles on 'aspects' of R...Edwin Muir Great ThoughtsPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799"On 27 July 1799, W[ordsworth] told Cottle that 'Looking over some old monthly Magazines I saw a paragraph stating that your 'Arthur' was ready for the press!'"William Wordsworth  Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799"W[ordsworth]'s note to Descriptive Sketches 428 reads: 'These summer hamlets are probably (as I have seen observed by a critic in the Gentleman's Magazine) what Virgil a...William Wordsworth Gentleman's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'indiscriminate reading brought... liberation to Chartist Robert Lowery. A prolonged illness gave him the opportunity to work through a bookseller's entire circulating li...Robert Lowery [history]Print: Book
1800-1849'indiscriminate reading brought... liberation to Chartist Robert Lowery. A prolonged illness gave him the opportunity to work through a bookseller's entire circulating li...Robert Lowery [poetry]Print: Book
1800-1849'indiscriminate reading brought... liberation to Chartist Robert Lowery. A prolonged illness gave him the opportunity to work through a bookseller's entire circulating li...Robert Lowery [imaginative literature]Print: Book
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1800-1849		'Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, classic histories and voyages and, ultimately, Willi...Samuel Bamford [classic histories]Print: Book
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1800-1849		'Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, classic histories and voyages and, ultimately, Willi...Samuel Bamford [voyages]Print: Book
1900-1945'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Cassell's Weekly. The magazine was full of literary go...Catherine McMullen T.P. and Cassell's WeeklyPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Witness statement in the trial of James Stewart for theft: James James (Witness): "afterwards I saw the advertisement in the 'Daily Advertiser' about the prisoner at t...James James Daily AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in a trial for highway robbery William Aldrich: "on the 23rd of June, at half past ten at night, the prisoner Hanlon brought me a watch to pledge... ...William Aldrich Daily AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial of Sarah Evans for murder Thomas Aris: "The first thing I heard of the child being drowned, I saw it in the paper, saying, the child of Sara...Thomas Aris Daily AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for housebreaking/receiving stolen goods: Thomas Davies: "I think it was in the middle of November I saw it in the 'Morning Advertiser' -I n...Thomas Davies Morning AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for for theft: Thomas Jones: "reading the 'Daily Advertiser' and finding they were advertised, I went out and fetched them from Mr Humphreys...Thomas Jones Daily AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for for theft: Benjamin Bunn: "I am a pawnbroker and live in Houndsditch... I was reading the 'Daily Advertiser', and I saw an advertisement...Thomas Jones Daily AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for for theft: Samuel Spencer: "The next day about 11 o'clock I read in the 'Advertiser', 'A silver pint mug, marked E.M.M. stole out of the...Samuel Spencer AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for for theft/ receiving stolen goods: Robert Alexander: "[the prisoner] brought a saw to pawn... I lent him 2s upon it; the next morning I ...Robert Alexander Public AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper


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