the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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David Lloyd : Memories of the lives ... of those noble ... personages

'After dinner by coach as far as the Temple and there saw a new book in Folio of all that suffered for the King in the late times - which I will buy; it seems well writ.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Manuscript: Unknown

David Lloyd George : War Memoirs of David Lloyd George

'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue:- 1.12.36
    C. E. Stansfield in the Chair
1. Minutes of last read + approved
4. The Secretary presented a statement of accounts showing the Club to have a balance of £1- 18-0, with money from the auction still to come.
6. Readings were then given by the following people.
F. E. Pollard: from Lloyd George’s Memoirs.
Dorothea Taylor from Quennells
A Rawlings: the story of Hervé Riel
H. R. Smith: from Nevinson’s Between Two [sic] Wars.
V. W. Alexander: from W. F. Harvey’s "We were seven".'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis E. Pollard      Print: Book

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