√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
John Williamson: "I went and got a pennyworth of gin. I had a newspaper in my... | John Williamson | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | George Smith, A Memoir (London, 1902): 'The MS. of "Jane Eyre" was read by Mr Wiliams ... he brought it to me on a Sa... | | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | | The Gem | Print: Serial / periodical, comic |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | | Magnet, The | Print: Serial / periodical, comic |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | | [Sexton Blake Stories] | Print: Serial / periodical, comics |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | George Alfred Henty | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | Robert Michael Ballantyne | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | Frederick Marryat | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | James Fenimore Cooper | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | Mark Twain | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | Walter Scott | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | Anne/Charlotte/Emily Bronte | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | George Eliot | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | William Prescott | Conquest of Peru, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | William Prescott | Conquest of Mexico, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | Geoffrey Chaucer | Canterbury Tales, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Inscribed in the book on the front free endpaper:
This book belonged to my father William youngest son of John and C... | William Williams | anon | Poetical description of song birds | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and there, by and by being called in, Mr Williamson did read over our paper, which was in a letter to the Duke of Yor... | | Samuel Pepys | [defence of the existing constitution of the Navy Board] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'E. reads the shipwreck of the Wager to us in the Evening' | Edward Williams | John G. Dalyell | [account of shipwreck of Wager in] Shipwrecks and Diasters at Sea | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'To return to "Trevelyan". I long to know what you will hear of it from Mary. I think Lady Augusta admirably drawn, he... | Mrs Williams | Jane Scott | Trevelyan | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Saturday, April 3, the day after my arrival in London this year, I went to his house late in the evening, and sat ... | Mrs Williams | [n/a] | London Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Do you read Blatchford in the Weekly Despatch? He is very good this week on "The Danger of the Submarine" and warns u... | Henry William Williamson | Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford | [article on submarine warfare in the "Weekly Dispatch"] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tell Father the Huns haven't started to run yet. If he reads the September "National Review" he will be surprised at ... | Henry William Williamson | | National Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Send an English newpaper (not the Daily Mail as we have it here) occasionally. We are forbidden to send picture postc... | Henry William Williamson | | Daily Mail | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wish you would send me the Daily Mail every other day, & also magazines (Pearsons etc) would be immensely appreciat... | Henry William Williamson | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Please send me April magazines. Have seen the March ones. The mud is awful — 3 mules drowned in shell craters l... | Henry William Williamson | | [March magazines] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The newspapers amuse us here immensely — we read of the Ger[mans] being driven back by our chaps —... | Henry William Williamson | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks for books & pyjamas & toffee ... Please send Motor Cycling & Motor Cycle & an occasional Daily Mail — we... | Henry William Williamson | | Motor Cycling | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks for books & pyjamas & toffee ... Please send Motor Cycling & Motor Cycle & an occasional Daily Mail — we... | Henry William Williamson | | Motor Cycle | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks for books & pyjamas & toffee ... Please send Motor Cycling & Motor Cycle & an occasional Daily Mail — we... | Henry William Williamson | | Daily Mail | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Don't forget a cake & send Daily Mail every other day and Motor Cycle & Motor Cycling and the mags.' | Henry William Williamson | | Daily Mail | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Don't forget a cake & send Daily Mail every other day and Motor Cycle & Motor Cycling and the mags.' | Henry William Williamson | | Motor Cycle | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Don't forget a cake & send Daily Mail every other day and Motor Cycle & Motor Cycling and the mags.' | Henry William Williamson | | Motor Cycling | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I received on the 3rd a parcel from you with biscuits and bulls eyes, and same time books and jersey with letter. The... | Henry William Williamson | | | Print: Book |