√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1900-1945 | '[according to Stan Dickens]"There was one book that we all thought was sensational" - Aristotle's Masterpiece. "At la... | Stan Dickens | [anon] | Aristotle's Masterpiece | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The girls at the hat and cap factory where [Mary Bertenshaw] worked would huddle round at dinner to read Aristotle's ... | Mary Bertenshaw | [anon] | Aristotle's Masterpiece | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver... | Edwin Whitlock | [anon] | The Holy War | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory... | Derek Davies | [anon] | The Illustrated News History of the 1914-18 War | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Gifford had read only some ballads, the black-letter romance Parismus and Parismenus, some odd loose magazines of his... | William Gifford | [anon] | [ballads] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I on Tuesday the 8th went in the afternoon to Fareham by the telegraph, where I spent the evening & slept at the Red ... | John Marsh | [anon] | Maria or The Vicarage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On Wed'y the 24th I finish'd reading the new & popular novel of the "Irish Excursion", w'ch Mr Hayley had recommended... | John Marsh | [Anon] | The Irish Excursion, or I fear to tell you | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Aftn. Suitable readings & social prayers. Read a sermon by the Revd E. Butcher.' | John Cole | [Anon] | [suitable readings] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' "La Belle France" has no more pretensions to beauty/ t... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Anon] | Matilde a novel | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' Count oe'r the days whose happy flight/ Is shared with... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Anon] | [untitled] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'A Highland Salute to the Queen/ Air Roderigh Vich Alpine dhu, ho... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Anon] | A Highland Salute to the Queen | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]; [Title] "The Star of Missions"; [Text] "Behold the Mission Star's soul gla... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Anon] | The Star of Missions | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]; [Untitled]; [Text] "Qu'est ce qui fait le bonheur ou le malheur/ de notre ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Anon] | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The dead friend'; [Text] 'Not to the grave, not to the grave, my... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Anon] | The dead friend | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'The following Saturday afternoon [father] was a bit late getting home from work; he must have gone to the second-hand... | Joseph Stamper | [anon] | Guy's Expositor | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I return you the Quarterly Reveiw [sic] with many Thanks. The Authoress of "Emma" has no reason I think to complain o... | Jane Austen | Walter Scott [anon] | review of Emma | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1600-1699 | 'And so went home, taking Mr Leigh with me; and after drunk a cup of wine, he went away and I to my office, there read... | Samuel Pepys | [anon] | A treatise of taxes and contributions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I console myself with Doddridge's Expositor and "The Scholar Armed", to say nothing of a very popular book called "The... | Sydney Smith | [anon] | The Scholar Armed | |
| 1900-1945 | I have read 'Roasted Angels' and I now return it. It is a very unusual and even a very remarkable play. It is full ... | Arnold Bennett | H Hamer [anon] | Roasted Angels | |