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

Reading Experience Database UK Historical image of readers
 
 
 
 

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On selecting a tutorial from the list below, you will be redirected to the Open University's OpenLearn site. To keep UK RED open at the same time, we recommend that you right-click with your mouse on a title and select 'open in new tab/ window'.

picture for Tutorial One Tutorial One: Finding evidence of reading in the past

How do we know what people read in the past, and how they read it? This tutorial, the first in a series designed to help users of the UK Reading Experience Database (UK RED) search, browse and use the resource, explores the types of evidence historians have uncovered about the history of reading.

picture for Tutorial Two Tutorial Two: The reading and reception of literary texts – a case study of Robinson Crusoe

How have famous books been read and received by audiences in the past? This tutorial, the second in a series designed to help users of the UK Reading Experience Database (UK RED) search, browse and use this resource, explores the use of historical evidence to understand the reading and reception of a literary text, in this case Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.

picture for Tutorial Three Tutorial Three: Famous writers and their reading – Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee

Have you ever wondered about the reading tastes and habits of famous writers in the past? This tutorial, the third in a series designed to help users of the UK Reading Experience Database (UK RED) search, browse and use this resource, explores the connections between the evidence of a writer’s reading and their literary output.



   
   
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