| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'After breakfast [on board steamboat] returned to my crib. As I was removing "Contarin... | | Benjamin Disraeli | Contarini Fleming (one of multiple volumes) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'After breakfast [on board steamboat] returned to my crib. As I was removing "Contarin... | | Benjamin Disraeli | Contarini Fleming (second volume) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The boy was reading a play bill, when the prisoner went up to him and struck him, knocking out one of his teeth.' | | [n/a] | [playbill] | Print: Advertisement, Poster, playbill |
| 1900-1945 | 'The conversation went on about Darwin's "Origin of species", and F. said to S. "tha doesn't favour a monkey, but tha ... | | Charles Darwin | Origin of species | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'D. Did you ever read Carpentier's life, I've been reading it in a illustrated paper, 'e thought 'e was on a easy thin... | | [unknown] | Carpentier's life | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical, illustrated paper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our own attitude and our feeling of amateur enterprise have been summed up by Professor Bronislaw Malinowski, who in ... | | Bronislaw Malinowski? | [unknown] | Manuscript: Sheet, Academic paper |
| 1900-1945 | 'A lady I know well was sitting by the fire one evening. She wanted something to read so she reached out a hand to the... | | Humbert Wolf | The Uncelestial City | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Well, I think I really didn't think they were going too well really. I read the leading article in the Chronicle... t... | | | Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yes, I read the article too. It shocked me. I think if it all had to be printed - I mean the advertisement - it was q... | | | Daily Mirror | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'We had a few business connections with Prague in pre-war days, and our customers' knowledge of English always impress... | | unknown | To sing with the Angels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I only know from what I read, but the fact that the Nazis have to keep a huge Gestapo force inside Czech Territory is... | | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | "The 'Straight from the Beach at Dunkirk' you mean? I ask you....To be quite candid I've never seen anything so ridicu... | | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I got from my town head the idea that the world was made for us all and not for the few....so became a Socialist. But... | | William and Martha Dodd | Ambassador Dodd's Diary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I got from my town head the idea that the world was made for us all and not for the few....so became a Socialist. But... | | Tiberius G | Your M.P | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Arrived 8.45 am, left 5.45. Left early with Mac's permission, though Bailey said he wouldn't risk it. Did 10 minutes ... | | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I think astrology is the most reliable way of telling the future. Astrologers are so often right. I read him and stud... | | Lyndoe | unknown texts on Astrology | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'When I first read about it I thought to myself; "I don't think that's going to affect me at all; 66 coupons! Why, I s... | | | information on clothes rationing | Print: Unknown, could be news or pamphlets |
| 1900-1945 | '"I just went down the Post an' when I come back it was as flat as this 'ere wharfside - there was just my 'ouse like-... | | | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I think newspapers do a lot towards it, because one of the first things I do is to look at the women's page in the Ne... | | Jill Adams | News Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'You mean the Monitor? I read it because I think it's better than any English papers. It doesn't mix its news and view... | | | Monitor | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '...Naturally the Insurance Companies are feeling a bit sick and when the report is delved into, this is hardly to be ... | | | [Report into Insurance Companies' finances] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have very little feeling about them, especially in war-time. I used to admire what I read about them and their tidi... | | | news | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Unconditional surrender. I don't think America will allow us to do anything different. I read the other day where Cor... | | Cordell Hull | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read how delayed demobilisation after the last war led to disaffection and mutiny among the troops: but it see... | | | news | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Then B. went shopping while I lay on the divan and read Proust, which I continued to do most of the evening, except w... | | Marcel Proust | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Then B. went shopping while I lay on the divan and read Proust, which I continued to do most of the evening, except w... | | Ellis | Sunlight on Parnassus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'a friend of mine read in the paper that some people had recently left Italy for America. She says they are the Italia... | | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had been reading Mary Border's book "Passport for a girl" and the day following my dream, I was interested to read ... | | Mary Border | Passport for a girl | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Though I am the least superstitious of mortals and rhough I have read Freud and Dunne and treat dreams with the scien... | | Sigmund Freud | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Though I am the least superstitious of mortals and rhough I have read Freud and Dunne and treat dreams with the scien... | | Dunne | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My personal opinion of margarine has quite changed owing to the arrival of this questionnaire. My mother opened it by... | | | questionnaire about margarine | Print: Broadsheet, Questionnaire / survey sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'She goes on: "I read the advertisements stating margarine's superiority to butter with a quiet smile, and a mental th... | | | advertisements about margarine | Print: Advertisement |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yes, I have skimmed through the leaflets, and put them in a letter file. I haven't read anything else except newspape... | | | leaflets | Print: Advertisement |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yes, I have skimmed through the leaflets, and put them in a letter file. I haven't read anything else except newspape... | | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'The other day I read an article by Lady Roberts, quite a good one- but it does not help to demand that everybody shou... | | Lady Roberts | unknown | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Had a nice night last night. Tommy Bloody Handley on the wireless again, read every book in the house. Too dark to wa... | | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'According to what I've read everything seems to be going very satisfactorily, but not knowing the country, I've no id... | | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'There are things going on in the village, but no one would ever say "could I stay with your kiddies while you go". I ... | | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have two children, 2? years and 1 year old. Though in some respects I would not object to increasing my family, qui... | | | Reader's Digest | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The letter began with a keen criticism of Robert Service's "Rhymes of a Red Cross Man", which had just been sent out ... | Victor unknown | Robert Service | Rhymes of a Red Cross Man | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A new officer has been censoring our letters the last two days. I fancy the C.O. gave orders that they were to be muc... | | | [letters addressed to conscientious objectors in camp] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'The censoring here has become such an unpleasant occasion as almost to take away the joy of receiving letters —... | | | [letters addressed to conscientious objectors in camp] | Manuscript: Letter |