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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

Reading Experience Database UK Historical image of readers
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example picture Reading Culture in the Victorian Underworld

For some years now, we have been treated to many colourful accounts of the Victorian underworld. Documentaries, serialisations of the nineteenth-century classics, neo-Victorian novels and sensational books have evoked the smells and sounds of the slums...

example picture Reading the English Bible

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example picture The 'abominable' Dickens rekindles the 'flame of love': rediscovering readers of the past

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example picture Jane Austen's readers

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example picture A reader in the 1870s and 1880s: Molly Hughes's recollections of her childhood books

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example picture Reading and World War One

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example picture Reading Places

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example picture 'The roads were unspeakable': reading while travelling

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