| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | Spent the afternoon in mending some of my things for the wash. After tea, read aloud sermons 13+14 of Alison's. | Anne Lister | Archibald Alison | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?Two or three years my senior, Sam, like myself, was acquiring a taste for books. Our tastes were not wholly dissimila... | Samuel Bailey | Archibald Alison | History of Europe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the First of Alison's "Two Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste". Taste, he defines, That faculty by wh... | Thomas Green | Archibald Alison | Essays on the nature and principles of taste | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of... | Sydney Smith | Archibald Alison | Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read a little now, and am almost afraid I am learning to do without reading. Napoleon's battles in Alison's history... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Archibald Alison | History of Europe from the Fall of Napoleon in MDCCCXV to the Accession of Louis Napoleon in MDCCCLII | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have begun Alison's "Europe" - a pompous title, by the by, for an account of the Bedlam devilries of the French rev... | John Ruskin | Sir Archibald Alison | History of Europe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little Alison and much chemistry, but a little headachy and out of order.' | John Ruskin | Sir Archibald Alison | History of Europe | Print: Book |