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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
 
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: Henry Barnard: "I went to Baker's Coffee-house to search the newspaper, whether this bill, which I suspected to be stol...Henry Barnard  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: Henry Barnard: "I went to Baker's Coffee-house to search the newspaper, whether this bill, which I suspected to be stol...Henry Barnard  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for theft: John Williamson: "I went and got a pennyworth of gin. I had a newspaper in my hand; she said she had found a purse with bank note...John Williamson  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for theft: Elizabeth Marlow: "In the morning of the 23rd I was looking into the newspaper for a particular thing I wanted to see. I saw an a...Elizabeth Marlow  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for burglary: James Harrison: "I know both prisoners. On the 7th of September, I was in company with Underwood, at the Angel, Mr Fitzpatrick...James Harrison  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for burglary: 2 statements -that George Todd was apprehended in a public house, reading a newspaper at the timeGeorge Todd  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for coining: John Bailey: "I am an engraver in Fleet-market. I saw the prisoner, as well as I can recollect, the first time was June last. I...John Bailey  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for stealing: John Jackson: "I came up by coach, I got down at the White Horse Cellar in Piccadilly, I was very much benumbed with cold. I d...John Jackson  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for burglary: Joseph Jackson: "I come on account of recollecting a circumstance in an advertisement, that I saw in the newspaper, concerning...Joseph Jackson  Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson ...would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Lik...Jack Lawson Charles Reade Print: Book
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for stealing: William Watson: "...my house was robbed on the 17th of March... I told my case and on the 19th, I saw in the newspaper a descr...William Watson  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for theft: Alexander Jack: "...we went to another house a little further on, and there was a man sitting with a pot of beer, reading a newsp... Anon  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for shoplifting: Walter English: "on the 15th of January last, in the morning, I was in my parlour reading the newspaper, about ten in the m...Walter English  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Defence of prisoner in his trial for theft James Lewis: "...we went to the Gun, and he asked me to go in; the gentlewoman said come into the parlour, we staid there, a...James Lewis  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for theft: Keturah Dyts (wife of landlord): "...on the 15th of August my husband was taken ill; the prisoner was sitting in the kitchen read...Robert Mills  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for murder: Joshua Parish: "I know the middle man (Payne); it is near three weeks ago since I first saw him... after this I saw in a newspap...Joshua Parish  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for theft: Q: "When did you hear of Sadi's death, madam?" Sullivan: "I really cannot tell; I was in the country; I first read it in the new... Sullivan  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for forgery: Joseph Lecree: "...a card was left for me to go to Ibberson's Coffee-house, where I was directed to my Lord, the first time I w...Henry Griffin  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for theft: Elizabeth Kinsey, describing actions of prisoner William Mortimer while in tap room of the public house: "I did not see him doing...William Mortimer  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799This trial concerned with the manner in which William Hudson read the newspaper (or several) to other customers at the New London Coffee-house and the seditious comments ...William Hudson  Print: Newspaper


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