√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1700-1799 | ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so... | Francis Place | Robertson | unknown [Robertson's works?] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Hugh Miller's] literary style was out of date: in 1834 he alluded to "my having kept company with the older English ... | Hugh Miller | [probably William] Robertson | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Neville Cardus, on devising cultural self-improvement scheme, in Autobiography (1947): "'I came upon the works of J. M... | Neville Cardus | J. M. Robertson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. A... | Anne Lutton | William Robertson | The History of America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, consider... | Samuel Bamford | William Robertson | History of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have really been so occupied with the sorrows of Mary Queen of Scots you must excuse my not have written before. I... | Lady Caroline Lamb | William Robertson | History of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much of it [ie. 'the daily instruction I received'] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father's discours... | John Stuart Mill | William Robertson | Histories | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830:
... | Elizabeth Sewell | William Robertson | History of Charles the Fifth | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Day was beautifull and I enjoyed the sweetness of the weather in riding walking and sitting out in the fields wit... | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | William Robertson | The History of America | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Rain again and rain forever. I read a great deal of Robertson's "History of Scotland". I cannot forgive Elizabeth's b... | Eugenia Wynne | William Robertson | The History of Scotland during the Reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI till his Accession to the Crown of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Robertson's "History of Scotland"...' | Thomas Green | William Robertson | History of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Robertson's "History of Scotland"....' | Thomas Green | William Robertson | History of Charles V. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the first three Books of Robertson's "America"...' | Thomas Green | William Robertson | History of America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | William Robertson | History of America | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday [...] Dec. 4th. [...] After dinner [attended by several guests] [...] Mr. Sommer came
in in [...] his usual ... | Claire Clairmont | William Robertson | The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V. with a View of the Progress of Society in Europe, from the Subversion of the Roman Empire, to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Muratori - Greek - Travels of Rolando - S. reads Robertson's America - begins Bocaccio [sic] aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Wiliam Robertson | History of America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads the history of Charles 5th by Robertson' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Robertson | History of the Reign of Emperor Charles V, with a view of the progress of society in Europe from the subversion of the Roman Empire to the beginning of the sixteenth century | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was wofully ignorant. Such books as Russell's "History of Modern Europe"... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | William Robertson | History of the Reign of Charles the Fifth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You talk of reading "a very old book": Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. Why that's a [underlined] chickn [sic, underli... | Sarah Harriet Burney | William Robertson | History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them;... | Sarah Harriet Burney | William Robertson | History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For the last ten days I have been getting on again in good style. I have finished Charles and am in the second volum... | Jane Baillie Welsh | William Robertson | Charles V | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When I talked of our [the Scots'] advancement in literature, "Sir, (said he,) you have learnt a little from us, and y... | Samuel Johnson | William Robertson | History of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese... | Samuel Johnson | William Robertson | History of Scotland 1542 - 1603 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese... | James Boswell | William Robertson | History of Scotland 1542 - 1603 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I this evening boasted, that although I did not write what is called stenography, or short-hand, in appropriated char... | Samuel Johnson | William Robertson | History of America | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have not finished re-reading your book, so I cannot say whether all is improved; but much is.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Charles Grant Robertson | Kurum, Kabul and Kandahar: being a Brief Record of Impressions in Three Campaigns under General Roberts | Print: Book |