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

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George Macaulay Trevelyan : 'The Uses of History'

E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 27 February 1900: 'Last Thursday I went to Mr Dickinson's to hear Trevelyan of Trinity read a paper on "The Uses of History", & very good it was.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Macaulay Trevelyan      Manuscript: Unknown

George Macaulay Trevelyan : English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries from Chaucer to Queen Victoria

'Got up late for breakfast but felt so awful that Mary took my temperature which was over 100 and sent me straight back to bed, where I remained, dozing and reading — Trevelyan's Social History, just out, Fynes Moryson's Itinerary, Harrison's Elizabethan Times, and Sir John Reresby's Memoirs.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: James Lees-Milne      Print: Book

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