| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'As classes were large and teachers few, individual tuition was scant. The three R's were the basic subjects, and scri... | Vero Walter Garratt | | Leviticus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' ... as I had started adolescence in a blaze of idealism, the conflicting ugliness of factory life often drove my spi... | Vero Walter Garratt | unknown unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Each night I hurried into my best second-hand suit of clothes, hurried down my tea and then hurried off to evening cl... | Vero Walter Garratt | Thomas Babington Macaulay | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Each night I hurried into my best second-hand suit of clothes, hurried down my tea and then hurried off to evening cl... | Vero Walter Garratt | Joseph Addison | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Each night I hurried into my best second-hand suit of clothes, hurried down my tea and then hurried off to evening cl... | Vero Walter Garratt | John Keats | 'Ode to the Nightingale' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Every available evening I spent in the reference room [at Birmingham Central Library], searching for books which put ... | Vero Walter Garratt | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Every available evening I spent in the reference room [at Birmingham Central Library], searching for books which put ... | Vero Walter Garratt | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Every available evening I spent in the reference room [at Birmingham Central Library], searching for books which put ... | Vero Walter Garratt | Epictetus | Discourses of Epictetus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Every available evening I spent in the reference room [at Birmingham Central Library], searching for books which put ... | Vero Walter Garratt | Longinus | On the Sublime | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Every available evening I spent in the reference room [at Birmingham Central Library], searching for books which put ... | Vero Walter Garratt | Plato | Dialogues | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tennyson was my earliest love, not because he gave any deep insight into human nature, but because his lyrical simpli... | Vero Walter Garratt | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 'Lilian' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tennyson was my earliest love, not because he gave any deep insight into human nature, but because his lyrical simpli... | Vero Walter Garratt | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 'Isabel' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tennyson was my earliest love, not because he gave any deep insight into human nature, but because his lyrical simpli... | Vero Walter Garratt | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 'Idylls of the King' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'With Shelley I shared the sadness of human frailty. Except for some of his shorter poems, Browning was too involved f... | Vero Walter Garratt | Percy Bysshe Shelley | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'With Shelley I shared the sadness of human frailty. Except for some of his shorter poems, Browning was too involved f... | Vero Walter Garratt | Robert Browning | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'With Shelley I shared the sadness of human frailty. Except for some of his shorter poems, Browning was too involved f... | Vero Walter Garratt | William Shakespeare | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'With Shelley I shared the sadness of human frailty. Except for some of his shorter poems, Browning was too involved f... | Vero Walter Garratt | John Keats | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was ... thankful for the monthly and quarterly magazines that lay on the tables of the library, for their instructi... | Vero Walter Garratt | | Hibbert's Journal | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was ... thankful for the monthly and quarterly magazines that lay on the tables of the library, for their instructi... | Vero Walter Garratt | | English Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was ... thankful for the monthly and quarterly magazines that lay on the tables of the library, for their instructi... | Vero Walter Garratt | | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was ... thankful for the monthly and quarterly magazines that lay on the tables of the library, for their instructi... | Vero Walter Garratt | | Criterion | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'By the time I was seventeen, my passion for reading had become so intense that a few hours [study in the public libra... | Vero Walter Garratt | Ralph Waldo Emerson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'By the time I was seventeen, my passion for reading had become so intense that a few hours [study in the public libra... | Vero Walter Garratt | Marcus Aurelius | The Golden Book of Marcus Aurelius | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'By the time I was seventeen, my passion for reading had become so intense that a few hours [study in the public libra... | Vero Walter Garratt | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Biographia Literaria | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'By the time I was seventeen, my passion for reading had become so intense that a few hours [study in the public libra... | Vero Walter Garratt | Thomas Carlyle | Sartor Resartus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At one end of the shop stood the foreman's little glass office, from which he could observe all that was going on thr... | Vero Walter Garratt | Thomas Carlyle | Sartor Resartus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sometimes it was more convenient to take a book into the lavatory and to sit there an inordinate length of time. On o... | Vero Walter Garratt | unknown unknown | [Books from the 'Everyman's Library' series] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sometimes it was more convenient to take a book into the lavatory and to sit there an inordinate length of time. On o... | Vero Walter Garratt | unknown unknown | [Books from the 'Everyman's Library' series] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Despite my opposition ... I looked about for literature that would extend my knowledge of the subject [of Socialism].... | Vero Walter Garratt | Paul B. Bull | What Is Socialism? | |
| 1900-1945 | '... the Alliance of Honour existed to support my trend of thought and from my early teens to claim me as an ardent wo... | Vero Walter Garratt | unknown unknown | [publications of the Alliance of Honour] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The book that influenced me most in this direction was Sylvanus Stall's, What a Young Man Ought to Know, which... | Vero Walter Garratt | Sylvanus Stall | What a Young Man Ought to Know | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I ... took an active part in the work of the [Old Meeting Church] and became a Sunday School teacher. Happily, the cl... | Vero Walter Garratt | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I ... took an active part in the work of the [Old Meeting Church] and became a Sunday School teacher. Happily, the cl... | Vero Walter Garratt | Charles Kingsley | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As I was keen to go abroad, and half fearful of the war ending before my dream was consummated, I was not to be tempt... | Vero Walter Garratt | | Workers' Dreadnought | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'As I was keen to go abroad, and half fearful of the war ending before my dream was consummated, I was not to be tempt... | Vero Walter Garratt | | Cambridge Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'As I was keen to go abroad, and half fearful of the war ending before my dream was consummated, I was not to be tempt... | Vero Walter Garratt | | Freedom | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'As I was keen to go abroad, and half fearful of the war ending before my dream was consummated, I was not to be tempt... | Vero Walter Garratt | | Clarion | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'As I was keen to go abroad, and half fearful of the war ending before my dream was consummated, I was not to be tempt... | Vero Walter Garratt | | Christian Commonwealth | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'As I was keen to go abroad, and half fearful of the war ending before my dream was consummated, I was not to be tempt... | Vero Walter Garratt | | [Communist pamphlets] | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Fortunately, the casualties were not very heavy and we varied the time by hunting rats and watching the mice playing ... | Vero Walter Garratt | Francis Turner Palgrave (ed.) | Golden Treasury, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My friend Marian continued to send the bunch of periodicals that helped to shatter my illusions about the righteousne... | Vero Walter Garratt | | Cambridge Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Here I enjoyed a number of days in reading A Tale of Two Cities, and in sending off contributions to the Ba... | Vero Walter Garratt | Charles Dickens | Tale of Two Cities | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '... when evening came I sought the isolation of a disused hut at the bottom of a garden and revelled in poetic creati... | Vero Walter Garratt | Francis Turner Palgrave (ed.) | Golden Treasury, The | Print: Book |