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

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Lloyd George : 

'My sticks of rhubarb were wrapped up in a copy of the "Star" containing Lloyd George's last, more than eloquent speech. As I snipped up the rhubarb my eye fell, was fixed and fastened on, that sentence wherein he tells us that we have grasped our niblick and struck out for the open course.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield      Print: Newspaper

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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