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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'It was explained to all "She is of the Sahib people, she gave in my house 4 annas and to a man in the street 2 annas, she has come for the purpose of seeing: Now she goe...Gertrude Bell The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Pilot came on board & took us up the 16 miles to Beira. Landed at 3.15 pm ... had tea at the Savoy & latest telegrams & papers. There was a Times of Jan 16 & a Spectat...Albert Ruskin Cook [n/a] [n/a]The TimesPrint: NewspaperManuscript: Letter, telegram
1900-1945'On July 5th [1918] Katharine [Cook] saw Albert [Ruskin Cook] off from Paddington station. As the train pulled out Albert was "glad to have a corner seat and a copy of ...Albert Ruskin Cook [n/a] [n/a]The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Did you read Lloyd George's speech the other day introducing the remark about the German potato bread — "I fear that potato bread more than all Von Kluck's strategy". ...Clive Staples Lewis [n/a] [n/a]The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I see no reason to congratulate the Times on its recruiting supplement in any way, nor the country on the necessity (which it allows to remain) for such publications b...Clive Staples Lewis The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945‘We left the Corrugated Iron & Red Ten Billet [at Bohain] in a hurry early yesterday morning … We have here the Times of Thursday [17 October 1918], and the strange n...Wilfred Owen The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Rested all morning. Read "Times" and rested again after lunch.'Verena Vera Pennefather unknown The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'After lunch read The Times & then went to see Mrs Tucker's new baby.'Verena Pennefather The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945One can say of the more reticent British that, as you come to know them, some are discovered and some are found out. My father was of those who are discovered. 'The...Robert Stark [n/a] [n/a]The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Of course you have seen the squib on him in the "Examiner" ("Mr Sampson"). I saw it in a Liverpool paper. One sees him in almost every newspaper now. "D. News" rapped hi...Harriet Martineau [unknown]The Times (comment on Matthew Arnold)Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'... Vera Brittain, attending her aunt's school in Surrey shortly before the First World War, glossed her [the aunt's] practice of allowing them to read extracts [ie cutt...Female pupils at Surrey school anonThe Times (extracts)Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Dear Dr. Prothero, Are you reading Curtin's articles in the Times? I have followed every one of them very carefully, and I must admit I started reading them with some an...J.M. de Beaufort CurtinThe Times (series of articles)Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'[James] Garvin used very strong words in his article in the "Observer" today, the article was headed "England's Fame or Shame" ... Got the "Times" Sunday edition, the fi...J. P. Lynch The Times (Sunday Edition)Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Together Edward and I looked at "The Times History of the War", picked out a newspaper paragraph stating that the total estimate of European war casualities was already ...Vera Brittain variousThe Times History of the WarPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 12 March 1914: 'I am sitting here alone, Lytton [Strachey] in the next room writing of Cardinal Manning. I have just read the Times & ...Leonard Woolf The Times Literary SupplementPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Newspaper from WM this morning... Also two Examiners the last week and this, so that I revel in news this day. The Old ministers seem very sore at losing or giving up the...Robert Sharp The Times OR The ExaminerPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Among the mail was "The Times" Special Coronation Supplement. The men were vastly intrigued with the pictures. "That I suppose is your Potala?" asked [Sherpa] Wangdi, ...Frank Smythe The Times Special Coronation SupplementPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I spent the day reading "Weekly Timeses" and sitting in Sheikh Muhammad's tent.' Gertrude Bell The Times [?weekly or Sunday edition]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I have seen some English papers: this Cape affair has caused wonderful excitement and indignation: a horrid insult has been offered to the supreme Majesty of England - n...John Mitchel [n/a]The Times [and other English newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945

Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38.

F. E. Pollard in the chair

1. Minutes of last read and approved

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Rosamund Wallis J. M. SyngeThe Tinker’s WeddingPrint: Book


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