| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899 | 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen... | Thomas Jones | Thomas Babington MacAulay | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Percy Wall, jailed for defying draft notices in the First World War, was inspired in part by a copy of Queen Mab owne... | Percy Wall | Thomas Babington Macaulay | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work an... | Emrys Daniel Hughes | Thomas Babington Macaulay | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Pe... | Jack Lawson | Thomas Babington Macaulay | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I quite agree with you about Leonidas &c. I have greatly enjoyed finding myself a child again over Macaulay's 'Lays'... | Harriet Martineau | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Lays of Ancient Rome | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- Th... | Mary Russell Mitford | Thomas Babington Macaulay | The History of England, from the Accession of James the Second | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Working class readers continued to enjoy Macaulay's drama and accessibility long after professional historians had de... | Kathleen Woodward | Thomas Babington Macaulay | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | [D.R. Davies was inspired by his school teacher] 'to read Macaulay's History of England before his twelfth birthday' | D.R. Davies | Thomas Babington Macaulay | The History of England from the Accession of James II | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Ma... | Henry Rider Haggard | Thomas Babington Macaulay | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Girls in the top forms [at Roedean] were allowed to read ... in a small school library ... but ... [Margaret Cole] fo... | Margaret Cole | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's op... | John Paton | Thomas Babington Macaulay | [probably The History of England from the Accession of James II] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | " ... a young compositor encounters Macaulay for the first time:
"'Bernard Shaw tells me how he could get more intox... | anon | Thomas Babington Macaulay | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | H. J. Jackson notes annotations made by John James Raven over period of around 40-50 years in copy of Macaulay's Lays ... | John James Raven | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Lays of Ancient Rome: with "Ivry" and "The Armada" | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Mrs. Henry James Sr., 8 May 1876: "I have been reading Macaulay's Life with extreme interest and entert... | Henry James | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Life | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening began Macaulay's History of England. Richard III and G's M.S. on Goethe's scientific labours'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Thomas Babington Macaulay | History of England | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evenings of late, we have been reading Harriet Martineau's sketch of "The British Empire in India", and are no... | | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Essays on Lord Clive And Warren Hastings | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Did you see ? what I am reading just too late (but we must be benighted sometimes) in the number before the last of t... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'This evening read again Macaulay's Introduction'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Thomas Babington Macaulay | [perhaps] History of England [?] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lord Francis Jeffrey to Mary Berry, 23 April 1842 (in letter begun 22 April): 'I still read a good deal [...] I have j... | Lord Francis Jeffrey | Thomas Babington Macaulay | article on Frederick of Prussia | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry to the Countess of Morley, 24 December 1848: 'Talking of Macaulay, I hope you have got his book, as the [it... | Mary Berry | Thomas Babington Macaulay | The History of England from the Accession of James the Second | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We had read at school in our Reading Books, gorgeous bits from Macaulay's "History" -the Trial of the Seven Bishops a... | Thomas A. Jackson | Thomas Babington Macaulay | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We had read at school in our Reading Books, gorgeous bits from Macaulay's "History" -the Trial of the Seven Bishops a... | Thomas A. Jackson | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Warren Hastings | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Macauleys "history of England" for the 2nd time'
| Albert Battiscombe | Thomas Babington Macaulay | The history of England from the accession of James the Second | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading Macauleys "history of England", and have got thro 5 volumes, it is very interesting'
| Albert Battiscombe | Thomas Babington Macaulay | The history of England from the accession of James the Second | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Macauleys "history of England", it is so interesting that it keeps me up at night, later than I ought to... | Albert Battiscombe | Thomas Babington Macaulay | The history of England from the accession of James the Second | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have finished Macaulay's "history of England" and am now reading his speeches, they are interesting.' | Albert Battiscombe | Thomas Babington Macaulay | The history of England from the accession of James the Second | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have finished Macaulay's "history of England" and am now reading his speeches, they are interesting.' | Albert Battiscombe | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Speeches of the Right Honorable T. B. Macaulay, M.P. corrected by himself .. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Reading - for want of something better - "Macaulay's Essays". He is a born Edinburgh Reviewer, this Macaulay; and, in... | John Mitchel | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After breakfast, when the sun burned too fiercely on deck, went below, threw off coat and waistcoat for coolness, and... | John Mitchel | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Essays [on Bacon] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have been reading in "Tait's Magazine" an elaborate review of a new book by the indefatigable Government literator, M... | John Mitchel | Thomas Babington Macaulay | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Get, and read, Macaulay's Papers upon the Indian courts and Indian Education. They are admirable for their talent and... | Sydney Smith | Thomas Babington Macaulay | [writings on Indian Courts and Education] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read Macaulay's Lays? they are very much liked. I have read some but I abor all Grecian and Roman subjects'. | Sydney Smith | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Lays of Ancient Rome | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in letter to '_____', from Albano, April 1861 [re Remains of Roman theatre at Tusculum]:
'T... | | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Lay of the Battle of Lake Regillus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At present I am going for Macaulay's History and no novels at all.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Thomas Babington Macaulay | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'All the reading up is Macaulay, p.530 to 535 and then p. 616 to 630'. [The context of the reference suggests the text... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Thomas Babington Macaulay | The History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Alfred Domett, 13 December 1842:
'The only novelty we have had in books as yet, has been Macaula... | Robert Browning | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Lays of Ancient Rome (extracts) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett, invalid, to Richard Hengist Horne, 5 October 1843:
'I very much admire Mr Macaulay -- & could sc... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Lays of Ancient Rome | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 29 October 1844:
'There is an excellent refutation of Puseyism in the Edinburgh R... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Babington Macaulay | 'Early Administrations of George the Third: The Earl of Chatham' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Leonard Woolf, 14 July 1936:
'A very good, though very dull day. No headache this morning, brain ... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Babington Macaulay | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think I said in one of myy recent scrawls all I had to say concerning Mr Macauley's Review: every part of which I l... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Thomas Babington Macaulay | [Review of Madame d'Arblay's "Diary and Letters" in the "Edinburgh Review"] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 April 1921: 'I have been lying recumbent all day reading Carlyle, and now Macaulay, first to see if Carlyle ... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Babington Macaulay | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am glad to hear you are giving Macaulay a turn. I believe, though it sounds rude and foolish, nothing will do you m... | Sidney Colvin | Thomas Babington Macaulay | unknown | Print: Book, Articles in the Edinburgh Review? |
| 1850-1899 | 'Harry this evening commenced reading McAuley's (sic) History of England. He is getting a great deal too fond of Plays... | Harry Castieau | Thomas Babington Macaulay | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I read to the youngsters out of Peter [Parley?] & then heard Harry read a Page of Macauley. Went into ... | Harry Castieau | Thomas Babington Macaulay | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson Croker, 12 January 1849, on Macaulay's recently-published History of England:
'... | John Gibson Lockhart | Thomas Babington Macaulay | History of England, vols 1 and 2 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 2 July 1876, from Brussels:
'After I went to bed I read over that wonderful part of Macaulay's History, the death o... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Thomas Babington Macaulay | History | Print: Book |