| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Pe... | Jack Lawson | William Hickling Prescott | The Conquest of Mexico | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Pe... | Jack Lawson | William Hickling Prescott | The Conquest of Peru | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's op... | John Paton | William Hickling Prescott | [Spanish history] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Growing up in Clapton during the Depression, Michael Stapleton needed a signature from his father (an Irish navvy) fo... | Michael Stapleton | William Prescott | HIstory of the Conquest of Peru | 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 |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read Prescott again and made notes' | George Eliot [pseud] | [probably] William Prescott | [unknown] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began again Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | William Henry Prescott | History of Ferdinand and Isabella, The | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |