| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | September 5 1840. Went this morning to the house in Ship and Anchor court. On the parlour window of the house formerly... | Francis Place | | | Print: Advertisement, Handbill, Poster |
| 1700-1799 | I was sent to another school in Wine Office Court, Fleet Street, when I was about seven years of age. At this old woma... | Francis Place | | Dillworths Spelling Book | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | School hours were from 9 to 12 and from 2 to 5. The mode of teaching was this. Each of the boys had a column or half a... | Francis Place | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I had read a book, at that time openly sold, on every stall, called Aristotle's Master Piece, it was a thick 18 mo, wi... | Francis Place | | Aristotle's Compleat Master Piece; in Three Parts; Displaying the Secrets of Nature in the Generation of Man | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I had read a book, at that time openly sold, on every stall, called Aristotle's Master Piece, it was a thick 18 mo, wi... | Francis Place | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I neither concealed my doubts nor my fears but communicated them freely to several persons, no one however said anythi... | Francis Place | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I neither concealed my doubts nor my fears but communicated them freely to several persons, no one however said anythi... | Francis Place | | various religious titles | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | It was the custom of my master to invite some of the oldest of the boys to visit him for an hour or two on half holida... | Francis Place | | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | My desire for information was however too strong to be turned aside and often have I been sent away from a book stall ... | Francis Place | | various | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | My desire for information was however too strong to be turned aside and often have I been sent away from a book stall ... | Francis Place | | various | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | On my having read some portion of the preceding narrative to Mr Fenn Bookseller at Charing Cross he related circumstan... | Francis Place | Francis Place | Autobiography | Manuscript: unpublished memoirs |
| 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 | | unknown, histories of Greece and Rome | Print: Book |
| 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 | | unknown, translated works by Greek and Roman writers | Print: Book |
| 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 | Tobias George Smollett | | Print: Book |
| 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 | Henry Fielding | | Print: Book |
| 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 |
| 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 | David Hume | [Hume's Essays] | Print: Book |
| 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 | | translations from French writers | Print: Book |
| 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 | | unknown various | Print: Book |
| 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 | | unknown various [anatomy and surgery] | Print: Book |
| 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 | | unknown [relating to the Arts] | Print: Book |
| 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 | | unknown [many magazines] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 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 | Guthrie | unknown [Guthries Geography] | Print: Book |
| 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 | | unknown [Geometry] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I now read Blackstone, Hale's Common Law, several other Law Books, and much biography. This course of reading was cont... | Francis Place | William Blackstone | Commentaries on the Laws of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I now read Blackstone, Hale's Common Law, several other Law Books, and much biography. This course of reading was cont... | Francis Place | Matthew Hale | History and Analysis of the Common Laws of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I now read Blackstone, Hale's Common Law, several other Law Books, and much biography. This course of reading was cont... | Francis Place | | various [Law books] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I now read Blackstone, Hale's Common Law, several other Law Books, and much biography. This course of reading was cont... | Francis Place | | various [biographies] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history... | Francis Place | David Hume | [Essays and Treatises] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history... | Francis Place | Adam Smith | Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history... | Francis Place | John Locke | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history... | Francis Place | | various [history] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history... | Francis Place | | various [voyages] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history... | Francis Place | | various [politics and law] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I readily got through a small school book of Geometry and having an odd volume of the 1st of Williamsons Euclid I atta... | Francis Place | | [geometry text] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I readily got through a small school book of Geometry and having an odd volume of the 1st of Williamsons Euclid I atta... | Francis Place | Williamson | Euclid | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | In this room was a number of books, and among them every thing which had been published by Thomas Paine, all these I h... | Francis Place | Thomas Paine | Age of Reason | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I was finally induced to come to this determination sooner than I should otherwise have done by reading Mr Godwins 'En... | Francis Place | William Godwin | Inquiry Concerning Political Justice | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I used to plod at the French Grammar as I sat at my work, the book being fixed before me I was diligent also in learni... | Francis Place | | unknown [French grammar] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I usually when I had done with my french, read some book every night and having left the Corresponding Society I never... | Francis Place | Helvetius | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I usually when I had done with my french, read some book every night and having left the Corresponding Society I never... | Francis Place | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I usually when I had done with my french, read some book every night and having left the Corresponding Society I never... | Francis Place | Voltaire | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I adhered steadily to the practice I had adopted and read for two or three hours every night after the business of the... | Francis Place | | | Print: Book |