| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1900-1945 | '[Garratt] spent his free evenings in Birmingham's Central Free Library reading Homer, Epitectus, Longius and Plato's ... | V.W. Garratt | Francis Turner Palgrave (ed.) | The Golden Treasury | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth suggests to Francis Wrangham that he attempt to write a local history: 'I am induced to mention it ... | William Wordsworth | Grave | The History and Antiquities of Cleveland in the North Riding of Yorkshire | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charw... | Philip Inman | Francis Turner Palgrave | Golden Treasury (ed.) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1955 Manny Shinwell - who read all of Palgrave's Golden Treasury to his children, and had consoled himself in pris... | Emmanuel (Manny) Shinwell | Francis Turner Palgrave | Golden Treasury of English Song and Lyrics | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curios directions...My Father presented me with the entire bulk of... | Edmund Gosse | F.T Palgrave | The Golden Treasury | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford Universit... | Ralph Finn | Francis Turner Palgrave | Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize figh... | Vernon Scannell | Robert Graves | Goodbye to All That | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Palgrave | Longer Poems | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?As during my confinement I amused myself with light reading, I now for the 1st time read the "Spiritual Quixote" (w?t... | John Marsh | Richard Graves | The spiritual Quixote: or the summer's ramble of Mr Geoffry Wildgoose | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him ... | Lawrence Durrell | Robert Graves | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'Next to [John] Balgrave's modest prefatory poem [in "The Mathematical Jewel" (1585)] "The Authour in his own defence"... | Gabriel Harvey | John Blagrave | The Mathematical Jewel, Shewing the making, and most excellent use of a singuler Instrument so called ... The use of which Jewel ... leadeth ... through the whole Artes of Astronomy, Cosmography, Geography, Topography, Navigation, Longitudes ... | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Siegfried Sassoon, 3 August 1918:
'Re the poets you mention I have read some of them both. I liked... | Edward Morgan Forster | Robert Graves | | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Later in my teens, on a first visit to London, I bought for one-and-six in the Charing Cross Road, a red-covered copy... | Charles Causley | Robert Graves | [war poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | John Wilson Croker to his wife, 28 July 1850:
'After dinner I read some of the letters written by Charles Long and ... | John Wilson Croker | Charles Long and Lord Mulgrave | letters to Lord Lonsdale | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Transcript of interview: 'I don’t think there was anything that I wasn’t allowed to read. It was only when I went ... | Hilary Spalding | Thomas Palgrave (ed) | Golden Treasury | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Robert Graves lent me his manuscript poems to read: some very bad, violent and repulsive. A few full of promise and ... | Siegfried Sassoon | Robert Graves | | Unknown |