√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1900-1945 | 'At Ruskin College he was exposed to Marx, but he found a more compelling Utopian prophet when he read Lewis Carroll t... | Jack Lawson | Karl Marx | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Alice Foley] read some Morris and less Marx, but for her a liberal education for the proletariat was not merely a mea... | Alice Foley | Karl Marx | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "[George Bernard] Shaw had read Marx's Das Kapital (in French translation) and he was converted to socialism ..." | George Bernard Shaw | Karl Marx | Das Kapital | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[George] Saintsbury [who became a Tory journalist] read Marx as an undergraduate ...' | George Saintsbury | Karl Marx | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Bill Naughton was hurt that when he applied for conscientious objector status the tribunal was suspicious of his elev... | Bill Naughton | Karl Marx | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest ... | D.R. Davies | Karl Marx | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[During the Great Depression] "Thousands used the Public Library for the first time", recalled itinerant labourer Joh... | John Brown | Karl Marx | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Jack Ashley] was less prepared for Ruskin [College] than most of the students, having read only two books since leav... | Jack Ashley | Karl Marx | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'For Dunfermline housepainter James Clunie, Das Kapital and the Wealth of Nations both demonstrated that industrialism... | James Clunie | Karl Marx | Das Kapital | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Taxi driver Herbert Hodge...knew that years on the dole only produced apathy, and that out-of-work men wanted practic... | Herbert Hodge | Karl Marx | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1925 Ifan Edwards was driven by unemployment to read Das Kapital in the public library. "It took him about four hu... | Ifan Edwards | Karl Marx | Das Kapital | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [George Scott disliked the Communism of fellow journalist, Stan] 'He had read Das Kapital (or parts of it) and could t... | Stan (acquaintance of George Scott) | Karl Marx | Das Kapital | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Walter Citrine won, as a Sunday School prize, a volume of school stories from the Captain, including one by P.G. Wode... | Walter Citrine | Karl Marx | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Patrick McGill] read virtually nothing, not even the daily papers until, working on the rail line, he happened to pi... | Patrick McGill | Karl Marx | Das Kapital | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The poet Clare Cameron, born Winifred Wells to a London blacksmith, was a 15s a week clerk given to artistic ecstasie... | Clare Cameron | Karl Marx | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Finished "Capital" - the cenotaph of its subject.' | William Soutar | Karl Marx | Capital | Print: Book |