| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
James Robertson: "I keep a public house in Stanhope-street, Clare market -the... | Anon | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Alexander Jack: "...we went to another house a little further on, and there w... | Anon | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Thomas Watts: "...there was a gentleman in the house reading a newspaper and ... | Anon | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth describes coach journey from London, having already observed that the coach guard was a former groc... | [a grocer] Anon | William Wordsworth | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew's interview with a seller of street stationery:
'I read "Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper" on a Sunday, and what... | | [n/a] | Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews "educated" costermongers who read fiction aloud to groups of costermongers in the courts they ... | | G.W.M. Reynolds | The Mysteries of London | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews "educated" costermongers who read fiction aloud to groups of costermongers in the courts they ... | | G.W.M. Reynolds | The Mysteries of the Court of London | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a crossing sweeper:
"Sometimes, after I get home, I read a book, if I can borrow one. What ... | | G.W.M. Reynolds | Reynolds's Miscellany | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of a juvenile offender:
"I was never in prison before. I have been twice discharged, and am now waiting f... | | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of juvenile offender:
"I have been four times in prison and twice discharged... I never saw Jack Sheppard... | | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, not sure if penny parts or volume |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Caroline Lamb, 1 May 1812: 'I have read over the few poems of Miss Milbank with attention ... A friend o... | [friend of Byron's, probably Dallas] anon | Annabella Milbanke | [poems] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 15 September 1814:
'I believe I told you of Larry and Jacquy [ie Lara and Jacqueline, poems b... | | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lara; Jacqueline | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | "[In Lark Rise to Candleford (1947)] Flora Thompson recollected young Willie, whose family were village carpenters, be... | Willie anon | Charles Mackay (ed) | A Thousand and One Gems of English Poetry | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | On readers of William Robertson Nicoll's British Weekly: " ... [a] Lancashire man ... started reading the British Week... | [a Lancashire man] anon | | The British Weekly | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '[Kent] Carr cites a letter [Marie] Corelli received from a colors sergeant in the Boer War in May 1900: "Now to tell ... | | Marie Corelli | The Sorrows of Satan | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '... Helena Swanwick recalled one exception from among the succession of inadequate domestic servants who passed throu... | | George Meredith | Novels | Print: Book |
| | '"Stilted prose" was the rapid and unhesitating reply to whether ... [George Meredith] reckoned "The Light of Asia" a ... | | Sir Edwin Arnold | The Light of Asia | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Not long ago I happened to call at the railway carter, and found the wife of the man engaged in reading George Eliots'... | | George Eliot | Adam Bede | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Flora Thompson's] grandmother enjoyed the Princess Novelette and similar penny series, "and she had an assortment of... | | unknown | Princess Novelette | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . the cab driver reads a coloured comic paper . . .' | [a cab driver] anon | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'In Switzerland in 1908 Arnold Bennett met in his hotel an Anglo-Indian army major ... Bennett thought of engaging his... | | Marie Corelli | Holy Orders | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Q: Did your father read?
A: No. He was a poor reader. He would rather my mother read to him, I think, read him the b... | | | Lancashire Daily Post | Print: Newspaper, Local newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Q: Did you have a regular newspaper in the family?
A: We had the News of the World and People every Sunday.
Q: Who... | | | News of the World | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Q: Did you have a regular newspaper in the family?
A: We had the News of the World and People every Sunday.
Q: Who... | | | John Bull | Print: Book, Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 4 January 1848: '"Jane Eyre" has got down into Yorkshire; a copy has even ... | | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Q: Did your father read?
A: No. He was a poor reader. He would rather my mother read to him, I think, read him the b... | | | [unknown books] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Q: Did you have a regular newspaper in the family?
A: We had the News of the World and People every Sunday.
Q: Who... | | | The People | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Q: Did you have a regular newspaper in the family?
A: We had the News of the World and People every Sunday.
Q: Who... | | | Lancashire Daily Post | Print: Newspaper, local newspaper |
| 1600-1699 | As temporary President in Virginia, John Smith 'had the "letters patent" [for governing of the colony] read aloud "eac... | | | Letters patent for governance of colony | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Ellice Hopkins ... writing about Nottingham, decribed the operation of the "Girls' Movement" there ... She claimed th... | | | stories | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old ... | | Walter Besant | Self or Bearer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old ... | | Charles Dickens | A Christmas Carol | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old ... | | Charles Dickens | The Cricket on the Hearth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old ... | | Charles Kingsley | Hypatia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old ... | | Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler | Concerning Isabel Carnaby | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old ... | | William Makepeace Thackeray | The Virginians | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old ... | | Mark Twain | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old ... | | Evelyn Everett-Green | The Head of the House | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Sybil Lubbock remembers ... the reading which prefaced Christmas: as she and her sister embroidered their father's sli... | | Ewing | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Sybil Lubbock remembers ... the reading which prefaced Christmas: as she and her sister embroidered their father's sli... | | Charlotte Yonge | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Sybil Lubbock remembers ... the reading which prefaced Christmas: as she and her sister embroidered their father's sli... | | Walter Scott | The Talisman | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Sybil Lubbock remembers ... the reading which prefaced Christmas: as she and her sister embroidered their father's sli... | | Walter Scott | Quentin Durward | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Sewell ... remembered her mother in the 1820s reading aloud Anson's "Voyages", Lempriere's "Tour to Morocco"... | | George Anson | Voyage Round the World | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Elizabeth Sewell ... remembered her mother in the 1820s reading aloud Anson's "Voyages", Lempriere's "Tour to Morocco... | | William Lempriere | Tour to Morocco | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Elizabeth Sewell ... remembered her mother in the 1820s reading aloud Anson's "Voyages", Lempriere's "Tour to Morocco... | | | History of Montezuma | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | '[Mary Cholmondeley's mother] " ... read and was deeply interested in books on hydraulics, astronomy, anything that ha... | | | books on hydraulics | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | '[Mary Cholmondeley's mother] " ... read and was deeply interested in books on hydraulics, astronomy, anything that ha... | | | books on astronomy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... [Dora Montefiore (b. 1851)] recalls her father's ... practice of looking up Shakespeare's views on any topic whi... | | | Concordance to Shakespeare | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Phyllis Browne, "What Girls Can Do" (1880): '[Having agreed with her father that she would read only books approved by... | | Thomas Dick | Christian Philosopher | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | '[On grounds of propriety] Lucy Caroline Lyttelton's grandmother ... left out one chapter of ... [Adam Bede] ... when ... | | George Eliot | Adam Bede | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A letter from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabel Barrett tells of a sixty-year-old woman who believed that her mora... | | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Aurora Leigh | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A South Wales miner, raised in an orphanage, acknowledged that "Robin Hood was our patron saint, or ideal. We sincere... | | anon | Robin Hood | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'A South Wales miner, raised in an orphanage, acknowledged that "Robin Hood was our patron saint, or ideal. We sincere... | | anon | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'A South Wales miner, raised in an orphanage, acknowledged that "Robin Hood was our patron saint, or ideal. We sincere... | | anon | Dick Turpin | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'A South Wales miner, raised in an orphanage, acknowledged that "Robin Hood was our patron saint, or ideal. We sincere... | | anon | Charles Peace | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'One unfortunate who had confounded together the opening paragraphs of the Evidences and the Natural Theology... [wrot... | | William Paley | Natural Theology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'A customer of Old Willy's in the Leather and nail line, telling us he had heard Cobbett's register read lately, where... | [A customer of Old Willy's in the Leather and nail line] anon | William Cobbett | Political Register | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Jonathan Rose, "How Historians Study Reader Response: or, What did Jo Think of Bleak House?": " ... some of ... [Dicke... | | Charles Dickens | A Christmas Carol | Print: Book |
| | "An Irish nationalist annotating the autobiographical Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Founder of the 'United Irishmen... | | | annotations in Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Founder of the 'United Irishmen' | Manuscript: annotations in printed text |
| 1700-1799 | H. J. Jackson discusses highly "adversarial" annotations made by anonymous reader in copy of Richard Watson, Bishop of... | | Richard Watson | A Letter to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Marginalia]: 4 lines of ms notes on the binding page are now rubbed and difficult to decipher but appear to be notes ... | | George Burder | Early piety: or, memoirs of children eminently serious. Interspersed with familiar dialogues, emblematical pictures, prayers, graces and hymns. Recommended by the Rev. Mr. Peckwell | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: 3 pages of ms notes (pencil) on binding pages in form of references giving Book, chapter /verse and a sh... | | | The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New; translated out of the original tongues, ? | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Marginalia]: a few pencil marginal marks (in form of bracketed lines of text eg p 79 has lines 203-7 bracketed), plus... | | James Thomson | Seasons, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: ms note on binding page appears to refer both to the battle of Flodden and to poems about it: '... The ... | | Robert Lambe | An exact and circumstantial history of the battle of Floddon in verse written about the time of Queen Elizabeth. In which are related many particular facts not to be found in the English history[...] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: ms note, in pencil, in French, on verso of half-title, may relate to text or may refer to works by auth... | | Anon | Frederic le Grand | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Marginalia]: some very brief marginal marks/notes eg p. 72/3 is bookmarked and has text '11. Calcium. - This metal is... | | Jonathan Pereira | Treatise on food and diet, A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Martin] suffered but little violent pain until the day he died. Up to that period he sought amusement in cheerful an... | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'His plan was to make use of me as a talking dictionary and grammar, confining my teachings exclusively to the answeri... | | Oliver Goldsmith | Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| | [Marginalia]: pencil annotations on last binding page are in Latin and appear to be brief notes relating to 4 classes ... | | Robert Thomas | The modern practice of physic, exhibiting the characters, causes, symptoms, prognostic, morbid appearances, and improved method of treating, the diseases of all climates | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: has pencil annotations, opposite the title page and inside front cover, relating to the history and pu... | | Patrick Gordon | Famous history of the renown'd and valiant prince, Robert sirnamed, the Bruce, King of Scotland, ... A history both pleasant and profitable, set forth and done in heroic verse, by Patrick Gordon, Gentleman, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: 2 small ms notes laid into v.3 have references to items of interest eg.(1) 'Rupert's drops'; (2) 'From ... | | Priscilla Wakefield | Mental improvement: or the beauties and wonders of nature and art. In a series of instructive conversations. By Priscilla Wakefield | Print: Book |
| | [Marginalia]: 8 leaves of ms notes, in ink, in French, have been bound in at the beginning of the volume. They consist... | | Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson marquise de Pompadour | Suite d'estampes gravees par Madame la marquise de Pompadour d'apres les pierre gravees de Guay graveur du Roy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: Some blanks, left by printer, have been completed in either ink or pencil. The data entered covers numbe... | | Anon | Prospectus of a plan for the building and equipment of a frigate to be employed in sailing between London and Calcutta; touching at the Cape of Good Hope; for the conveyance of passengers only | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influe... | [Dave, friend of W.H. Davies] anon | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Marginalia]: Each sermon has a ms date (or dates), possibly indicating use of material: e.g. p. 40 sermon on "Self-i... | | John Caird | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Marginalia]: there are two annotators, one using blue ink and one red. All ms notes take the form of additional genea... | | Alistair and Henrietta Tayler (eds) | Domestic papers of the Rose family | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ??we were soon in a free conversation on the subject of parliamentary reform. When objections were stated, they listen... | | William Hone | Political Litany | |
| 1800-1849 | 'As a child [...] [Charles Shaw] [...] accepted without much complaint that at the age of seven he should abandon his ... | | | book | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'The Dundee Factory Boy claimed that while an apprentice shoemaker, he read, "books on nearly all the disputed questio... | | | books on theology | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'The Dundee Factory Boy claimed that while an apprentice shoemaker, he read, "books on nearly all the disputed questio... | | | books on metaphysics | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'The Dundee Factory Boy claimed that while an apprentice shoemaker, he read, "books on nearly all the disputed questio... | | | history books | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'The Dundee Factory Boy claimed that while an apprentice shoemaker, he read, "books on nearly all the disputed questio... | | | books on belle lettres | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'The Dundee Factory Boy claimed that while an apprentice shoemaker, he read, "books on nearly all the disputed questio... | | | books on science | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'The Dundee Factory Boy claimed that while an apprentice shoemaker, he read, "books on nearly all the disputed questio... | | Edward Gibbon | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'The anonymous Stonemason [author of "Reminiscences of a Stonemason, By a Working Man" (London, 1848)] [...] employed... | | | | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '"Blind Henry's Life of Wallace was the first book that stirred my mind, and set me on a career of reading and thinkin... | | Henry | Life of Wallace | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to a friend, 14 December, 1798: 'During my illness I have finished the 2nd vol. of Wraxhall which I had jus... | | Thomas Robert Malthus | Essay on the Principle of Population | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Well, I think Civil Defence is a marvellous racket. It's given me the spare time I've been wanting for years?I've don... | [M35B] Anon | unknown | unknown ["solid reading"] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday, Feb 4 (1940)
'Rose late. 11 o'clock. Breakfast. Went out to shovel snow off paths. Stayed in all day, reading... | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I'm getting on in age, I want light reading. You understand that, don't you? I don't want heavy reading. I don't want... | | unknown | [light readings] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It was quite a thousand pages and they laughed at me for reading it. It was dry, but I could really live the life of ... | | [unknown] | [life of Joan of Arc] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Well, it's written snappy, you see. . . . Modern writers may not be up to the standard of the old writers, Dickens, T... | | J G Brandon | Death in Downing Street | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '1.45. Paddington. All seats crowded, people eating, sleeping, reading, on seats and porters' trucks. Looking at Arriv... | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Advert. S. side of Euston Road reading "Morris Commercial Vehicles-a Body for every Trade" heavily draped with decora... | | [n/a] | [advertisement] | Print: Advertisement, Poster |
| 1900-1945 | 'Girl sitting on soiled newspaper is reading Daily Mirror. The caption reads "Three women wait 25 hours; lead line up ... | | [n/a] | Daily Mirror | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I find myself between a well-to-do business man from the Midlands, who is reading a "crime" novel, and two good-looki... | | [unknown] | [crime novel] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I find myself between a well-to-do business man from the Midlands, who is reading a "crime" novel, and two good-looki... | | [unknown] | Pitman's book | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Walking back to lunch I met an old lady wheeling another old lady in a bath-chair, and heard the one in the bath-chai... | | [unknown] | [pamphlet] | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Hostess is embroidering a fire-screen. Son, age 19, is reading. The wireless is on, and from time to time they consul... | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Hostess is embroidering a fire-screen. Son, age 19, is reading. The wireless is on, and from time to time they consul... | | [n/a] | Daily Telegraph Supplement | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Very few people appeared to be out, in fact it seemed like Sunday in the High Road, I called in a snack bar, ordered ... | | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'After that I read Voltaire's "Candide", and at 12 o'clock adjourned for a pint to the local pub. Switched on the wire... | | Voltaire | Candide | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After that I read Voltaire's "Candide", and at 12 o'clock adjourned for a pint to the local pub. Switched on the wire... | | Pat Sloan | Soviet Democracy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On Coronation Day we had a holiday so I thought I would have a rest and so I stayed in bed all the morning reading.' | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'After tea I completed my notes on this subject and then finished a book I was reading, "The Evolution of Love", by Em... | | Emil Lucka | Evolution of love, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Followed by the thought that, had I not been reading Ethel Mannin's "Green Willow", which gives a vivid description o... | | Ethel Mannin | Green Willow | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'About 10.30 p.m. I took her for some refreshment, we talked of books, she said she was reading "A Guide to Philosophy... | | [unknown] | A Guide to philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'This landlord was new to the game and took me to see how he was studying to be master of it. He was busy reading th... | | unknown | Licensed houses and their management | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A man is playing the piano briskly; on music stand is a newspaper, open at the sports page, which he is reading. A hu... | | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tries to read sports page, but ends up reading news. One girl does bad piece of work in mill. Immense black-out purch... | | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'While an old working-class lady of 68 in Worktown, reading a newspaper, summed up her opinion of the war as follows.' | | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'When one has finished reading through this pamphlet one comes to the inevit-
able conclusion that there is absolutel... | | [unknown] | [pamphlet] | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Housekeeping pupil (voluntarily) reading the paper over my shoulder yesterday morning. "I suppose Eden thought they'd... | | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'At work the sole topic was the new Conscription Bill, with discussion on how it will affect each one. After reading t... | | [n/a] | Daily Telegraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'The English student said that he had read an English novel in which a similar idea was suggested. One German was very... | | [unknown] | [English novel] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'D. went. N. said he wasn't going to sleep, because it was too uncomfortable; would read a book. He read "Low Company"... | | Ignazio Silone | Bread and wine | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I did not move from my chair but reached for a book. Picked up a Shakespeare and
read the closing scene, "Othello".' | | William Shakespeare | Othello | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read Freud's "Introductory Lectures".' | | Sigmund Freud | Introductory Lectures | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Also told me he had been commissioned to write a history of Dudley a few days back. Had declined. We went back and re... | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'On the dressing table were three books, my own, "Sanders of the River", Snowden's "Wages and Prices", a relic of my s... | | Edgar Wallace | Sanders of the River | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '6.30-8 p.m. read. 8 p.m. supper. 9 p.m. bath and bed. I saw nothing stirring or peculiar. The only funny thing was th... | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reporter. On May 12 I slept till ten. From ten to eleven I read the paper with interest until I came to a half column... | | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I walked through the park for a few minutes and not finding anything of interest to see or hear, I turned into a lane... | | [n/a] | [tomb inscriptions] | Print: epitaphs on tombs at cemetery |
| 1900-1945 | 'My friend didn't want to shave, although he was no longer clean-shaven, so we had a brief wrangle about washing. Then... | | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I sat in a seat in the square, my neighbours were mainly old men wrapped in dowdy overcoats and growling spasmodicall... | | Leo Tolstoy | War and Peace | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At 9.50 I went into the general office in order to await any cases of infectious diseases or nuisances which may aris... | | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I prepare supper and we eat it. Listen to news. I continue to read.' | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '9.15-12.0. Dressed. Wrote a poem. Annoyed by patriotic and religious activities at Church opposite. Read a magazine, ... | | [n/a] | Light and Dark | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'At half past two I was dry, and eating the remnants of my lunch. I switched on the wireless and listened to the Coron... | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Had extra hour in bed and read morning paper. Spent most of morning in garden making enclosure for tortoise as decide... | | [n/a] | [morning newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | ' I am disappointed that it is not raining, but bethought myself that it might rain at the time of the procession. I w... | | Emile Burns | Handbook of Marxism | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' I laid in bed till 6.15 a.m. and got up, washed and shaved. I ate my breakfast and read the paper.' | | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Started to read George Orwell's "Road to Wigan Pier" -Left Book Club choice for March. Arrived at Liverpool St. punct... | | George Orwell | Road to Wigan Pier | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Smoke a Players "medium" and a De Reszke "Minor". I read "Glasgow Herald" (Bus strike, Britain's new Navy, etc.) and ... | | | Glasgow Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Smoke a Players "medium" and a De Reszke "Minor". I read "Glasgow Herald" (Bus strike, Britain's new Navy, etc.) and ... | | [n/a] | Ayrshire Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Breakfast ready and finished dressing 7.45. Read "Daily Worker".' | | [n/a] | Daily Worker | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I gave her E. M. Forster's "A Passage to India". She- "I'm not sure, but I believe I've read it. I don't really remem... | | E. M. Forster | A Passage to India | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"I've been calm all week, but yesterday I listened to the news bulletin and I got a bad dose of jitters. I read somew... | | [unknown] | [news bulletin] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thus under one-third had, on their own showing, attempted to read all the nformation leaflets. But further questionin... | | | information leaflets | |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read the P.I.L. I read them with contemptuous and cynical amusement. Some people, I suppose, will darken thei... | | | [information leaflets] | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Have not read the P.I.L., neither has anyone in the house or anyone else I know. Will be read only if war breaks out.... | | [n/a] | [information leaflets] | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh, I have strained my eyes trying to read, and had to give it up in the end. I call it dismal, sitting for half an h... | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'To the Poolites each week comes a packet containing two Pool coupons (one to pass on to a friend) and the current iss... | | | Littlewood's Sports Log | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | ' "Well, because I do like Ernest Raymond's books and I read all of them as far as I can." '
| | Ernest Raymond | [various titles] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Well, I took it because it's a thriller. That's the reason. I like thrillers, you see. I always read thrillers.' | | [unknown] | [thrillers] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Well, I've read John Buchan's books before. That's the reason.' | | John Buchan | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On the whole I'd rather have a book like G. B. Stern's, or Hatter's Castle or The Stars Look Down. It's very sad to r... | | G B Stern | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On the whole I'd rather have a book like G. B. Stern's, or Hatter's Castle or The Stars Look Down. It's very sad to r... | | Archibald Joseph Cronin | Hatter's Castle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On the whole I'd rather have a book like G. B. Stern's, or Hatter's Castle or The Stars Look Down. It's very sad to r... | | Archibald Joseph Cronin | The stars look down | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'But when we read the long speech of the Bishop of London, addressed to his first Diocesan Conference, we were, we con... | | Bishop of London | [speech] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Course I know what you're talking about, I read about it all in the paper, used to read books about it, they've made ... | | [unknown] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read all about it chum in the papers, they don't interest me 'cept they don't do anything like for the likes of us, t... | | [n/a] | [Newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've read a book of H. G. Wells, he's good, I saw that film about "Things to Come", it's good, never read about scien... | | H G Wells | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Never thought much about it, took it for granted. One thing it's done is make people's nerves on edge all the time, w... | | [unknown] | [newspaper?] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read where there's going to be a war soon, it said so in the "People", they tell you what's going to be, there's mo... | | [n/a] | People | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read them every Sunday, many a time it's been true, but they don't give you so much bad news. When it was my birthd... | | [unknown] | [horoscopes] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read all the papers on it. I don't understand the politics of it, but they are all different. That's why people hav... | | [n/a] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'My life is serious enough without worrying over things like that, so I don't read the papers-only read d'Alroy and An... | | Ann Temple | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My life is serious enough without worrying over things like that, so I don't read the papers-only read d'Alroy and An... | | Marceline d'Alroy | The d'Alroy Diary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Long ago!'; [Text] 'Long ago!` Oh long ago!/ Do not these words r... | | [unknown] | Long ago! | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read an article in the "Daily Herald" on the Coronation Day survey. There was an invitation to write to Blackheath ... | | [n/a] | Daily Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read in the "News Chronicle" articles about the work, and especially the account by an ordinary housewife of her da... | | [n/a] | News Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'When I read about Mass-Observation in "Reynolds", I wrote straight away to join in. In fact, if there was a joining-... | | [n/a] | Reynolds's Weekly Newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Well, it takes me enough time reading papers and the Sunday papers, and "John Bull" and the "Illustrated"' | | [n/a] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Well, it takes me enough time reading papers and the Sunday papers, and "John Bull" and the "Illustrated"' | | [n/a] | [Sunday newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Well, it takes me enough time reading papers and the Sunday papers, and "John Bull" and the "Illustrated"' | | [n/a] | John Bull | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Well, it takes me enough time reading papers and the Sunday papers, and "John Bull" and the "Illustrated"' | | [n/a] | Sports Illustrated | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I don't read books at all, chiefly magazines that I can pick up and put down without losing the thread of the story ...' | | [n/a] | [magazines] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like reading. I can sit down and read a good thriller and start on it again immediately I have finished it, but not... | | [unknown] | [thrillers] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do like reading, and I spend most of the evening reading because there's nowhere to go.'
| | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Well, yes, but not good reading. I only read to pass the time away, - any old thing; any time when I happen to be stu... | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday evening is the only time I do read, - I spend over an hour reading the "News of the World".' | | [n/a] | News of the World | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read the "Times", which takes a time, - I suppose about an hour a day.' | | [n/a] | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read the "Telegraph" reviews ... in trains and in the evening, lunch-time etc.' | | [n/a] | Telegraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've got too much to do (to read books). I read the newspapers mostly, morning and evening editions, and the midday, ... | | [n/a] | [Newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I spend some time reading the papers, morning and evening editions, roughly about 14 hours a week, about two hours ea... | | [n/a] | [Newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I don't read newspapers, but I get the magazine "Woman", and I spend about 2 hours reading that.' | | [n/a] | Woman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The only reading I do outside the scope of my studies is that of newspapers, and the "New Statesman", - one hour.' | | [n/a] | New Statesman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The only reading I do outside the scope of my studies is that of newspapers, and the "New Statesman", - one hour.' | | [n/a] | [Newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Three hours magazines, - scientific and travel'
| | [n/a] | [magazines] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read a lot of magazines ... They're bright and easy reading, and you can find out lots of useful things in them.' | | [n/a] | [magazines] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read one magazine, the "Engineer", which I peruse at odd times over a week or so. It would take sometimes as much a... | | [n/a] | The Engineer | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'F 25 C is holding a slim book (looks new), approximate size 81/2" x 51/2", yellow jacket cover, title "Man Born to be... | | Dorothy Sayers | Man born to be king | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '25 C was reading a book, waiting to be served, and reading with concentration, both elbows on table, head between han... | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'That I don't like refugees in fiction is perhaps easy to understand, but I don't even like the war and today's condit... | | [unknown] | [books] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Detective stories and thrillers are by far the most numerous, in fact at the moment are all the fiction I seem to rea... | | [unknown] | [detective novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh, I read the reviews in the "Sunday Times" and the "Times Literary Supplement", when I can get hold of it. I also r... | | [n/a] | Sunday Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh, I read the reviews in the "Sunday Times" and the "Times Literary Supplement", when I can get hold of it. I also r... | | [n/a] | Times Literary Supplement | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh, I read the reviews in the "Sunday Times" and the "Times Literary Supplement", when I can get hold of it. I also r... | | [unknown] | Guide to Edinburgh | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh, I read the reviews in the "Sunday Times" and the "Times Literary Supplement", when I can get hold of it. I also r... | | [unknown] | [books on James IV] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Novels, except of exceptional quality, I prefer to borrow as I read them, mainly for relaxation only and seldom wish ... | | [unknown] | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read the first page of the newspaper first, then turn to the back page, then fold the outside in. A chance headline... | | [n/a] | Daily Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read the headlines and the adverts. If any particular headline strikes me I follow it up. Particularly comment on p... | | [n/a] | Daily Herald | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'First of all I read the main headlines, then the various news paragraphs in order of importance on the front page, th... | | [n/a] | Daily Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have always adopted the principle of working the newspaper fairly carefully from beginning to end. There may be an ... | | [n/a] | Daily Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'At work the sole topic was the new Conscription Bill, with discussion on how it will affect each one. After reading t... | | [n/a] | Daily Telegraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh, I read the reviews in the "Sunday Times" and the "Times Literary Supplement", when I can get hold of it. I also r... | | [n/a] | Jack O' London | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh, I read the reviews in the "Sunday Times" and the "Times Literary Supplement", when I can get hold of it. I also r... | | [unknown] | [books] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Novels, except of exceptional quality, I prefer to borrow as I read them, mainly for relaxation only and seldom wish ... | | [unknown] | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Have breakfast (next real interval is tea time, so breakfast includes prayers, reading and any urgent letters - this ... | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was reading the other day the story of an air flight. They had a long and dangerous journey to undertake, and befor... | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been reading the papers lately and I am astonished read what Mr. Heathcot-Amery has done. His people are highl... | | [n/a] | [Newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Well, see Miss. Christmas Day my father was reading his paper. His glass of beer was at his side. He feel asleep and ... | | [n/a] | [Newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"Oh here they are again! I'll be glad when the bloody election's over. Why don't they make their minds up, what they ... | | [n/a] | [Newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'The newspaper today took my breath away. Such a landslide I had not expected. Yesterday morning, reading the "Telegra... | | [n/a] | Daily Telegraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'At one of the three occupied tables by the windows sat two women, one about thirty, the other probably no more than 1... | | [n/a] | [periodical] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'At one of the three occupied tables by the windows sat two women, one about thirty, the other probably no more than 1... | | [n/a] | [newspaper cutting] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'After breakfast I postponed the things I ought to do by a little reading and knitting. Then I wrote letters till lunc... | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I should say in justice to myself that I am absolutely unmoved, except by impatience, at the daily twitterings of the... | | [n/a] | [Newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading the ordinary papers occasionally, listening to the B.B.C. news sometimes, reading the Left wing papers someti... | | [n/a] | [Left-wing newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"Manchester Guardian". English news once a day. Lord Haw-Haw, conversations with as may people as possible, reading o... | | [n/a] | Manchester Guardian | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am forming my opinions mainly from what I read in books on economies, politics, history, etc. I read the daily pape... | | C E M Joad | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am forming my opinions mainly from what I read in books on economies, politics, history, etc. I read the daily pape... | | H G Wells | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am forming my opinions mainly from what I read in books on economies, politics, history, etc. I read the daily pape... | | A Huxley | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I'm very amused reading in the paper about the trains yesterday. (reads): "Many trains had to run in duplicate and tr... | | [n/a] | [Newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'There was little time left before supper, and we decided to go for short walk to have a look at the moon. This done, ... | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Exhilarated with a terrible sadness, after reading "Arise to Conquer", I wondered if, when young men have done with t... | | [unknown] | Arise to conquer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When I realised that war made people around me feel hatred for their kinsmen (by which I mean mankind). People say th... | | Dick Sheppard | [article in News Chronicle] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Another lovely day: almost too hot to do anything. I've been depressed all day after reading Churchill's speech. It's... | | Winston Churchill | [speech] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The leaflet makes a special point of common sense but the way it urges people to use it is unconsciously the upper cl... | | Ministry of Information | [invasion leaflet] | |
| 1900-1945 | 'And a housewife, after reading it, says she is satisfied the she has done everything and knows everything that can be... | | Ministry of Information | invasion leaflet | |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was absolutely horrified about the Italians, the way they took revenge on Mussolini. I can't imagine what we're fig... | | [n/a] | [Newspaper: Article on Mussolini's death] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'There was a wonderful account in the "Daily Worker" of Mussolini's death, how he was shot in the head and his brain s... | | [n/a] | [Daily Worker: Article on Mussolini's death] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I heard that peace was declared on May the 7th, about 7 or 8 o'clock in the evening, at home with my parents. We had ... | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '(after reading story): " I see what he (Kennedy) means. The government's all Labour at the moment except Mr. Churchil... | | Kennedy | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have dreamt of Hitler twice recently, I put this down [to] reading books in the international situation rather than... | | [unknown] | [works/news on Hitler and Nazi-Germany] | Print: Unknown |
| 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 | 'Before the deed was done, however, the person in question awakened (I found the said person had been reading a thrill... | | [unknown] | [a thriller] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am forming my opinions mainly from what I read in books on economies, politics, history, etc. I read the daily pape... | | [unknown] | [books] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am forming my opinions mainly from what I read in books on economies, politics, history, etc. I read the daily pape... | | [n/a] | [daily newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Jenny & James [the Austen's servants] are walked to Charmouth this afternoon; - I am glad to have such an amusement f... | James anon | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was reading an article by a Labour M.P. who wants to harbour refugees. He's all wrong. Good job we haven't got dict... | | anon [A Labour MP] | article | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Well you know I think I'd read number 15 first. I did read it the other day as a matter of fact. It's got a bit of a ... | | | Fuel economy leaflet 15 | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh I did see that (15). I read it - actually it makes you read it because you have to go through to the end to find o... | | | Information leaflet | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Army officer: The first I heard of the invasion was when I was reading the papers in the mess after breakfast, when s... | | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'A young middle class man comes and sits on a seat nearby, and reads a book. Behind the rank on the top people are sit... | | unknown | [book] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A young middle class man comes and sits on a seat nearby, and reads a book. Behind the rank on the top people are sit... | | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Looks at cartoon first. "Oh, quite right, you know. It is these people who - I love those two. Yes". Turns to Priestl... | | anon | Internees Leaflet | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reads the front page, turns to the back, looks at the cartoon intently as if trying to understand it; then opens it a... | | anon | Internees Leaflet | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reads part. "This is very interesting". Reads carefully. "Of course it was ridiculous jamming all foreigners into con... | | anon | Internees Leaflet | |
| 1900-1945 | 'was reading Hitler's speech (oddly enough I read Hitler's speeches but very seldom read Churchill's I feel there is m... | | Adolf Hitler | Speeches | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Let me see. (Then, after reading it all through very carefully) - But we know all about this. They sent round leaflet... | | | Gas mask poster | Print: Poster |
| 1900-1945 | 'When I arrived home for tea that evening she asked as if I felt hungry. I replied, yes, and went on reading the paper... | | | Newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Some time ago I was convinced (I think through reading advertisements) that it was almost as rich in vitamins as butt... | | | Advertisement for margarine | Print: Advertisement |
| 1900-1945 | 'A housewife, 25, says she likes the Chronicle's "spring fashions for women etc.",
and a Times reader likes reading t... | | | Chronicle | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'A housewife, 25, says she likes the Chronicle's "spring fashions for women etc.",
and a Times reader likes reading t... | | | Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'A housewife, 25, says she likes the Chronicle's "spring fashions for women etc.",
and a Times reader likes reading t... | | | Chronicle | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'First you read the papers, and then you form your own opinion after reading them and thinking about them. There's alw... | | | Newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I'm off reading this period, glance at Insanity Bir, and open Marjorie's British Commonwealth by Ramsay Muir, at the ... | | unknown | Insanity Bir | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I'm off reading this period, glance at Insanity Bir, and open Marjorie's British Commonwealth by Ramsay Muir, at the ... | | Ramsey Muir | A Short History of the British Commonwealth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I think I really read newspapers from a sense of duty to keep in touch with the news of the world. Under certain cond... | | | Newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Why? Largely to find out so far as possible, what is happening. Sometimes I am so much in despair about the possibili... | | | Newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read newspapers because of an intense desire to get in touch with the world. A day missed in reading gives one a se... | | | Newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'On the surface I should say- because I want to know what is on in the world, but looking deeper into it I think I do ... | | | Newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ex shop assistant, about 63. Reads Daily Express, News of the world, Evening News. Chief interest in the short storie... | | | Daily Express | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ex shop assistant, about 63. Reads Daily Express, News of the world, Evening News. Chief interest in the short storie... | | | News of the World | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ex shop assistant, about 63. Reads Daily Express, News of the world, Evening News. Chief interest in the short storie... | | | Evening News | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reads Daily Herald. Likes best and spends most time on the racing and sports page. Considers the other stuff a lot of... | | | Daily Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read the Daily Herald. I don't read much of the general news. The pages I prefer are the items on sport, horse raci... | | | Daily Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reads Evening News and Sunday Chronicle. Likes best any sort of outspoken article
that's exposing anything, and sp... | | | Sunday Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reads Evening News and Sunday Chronicle. Likes best any sort of outspoken article
that's exposing anything, and sp... | | | Evening News | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Woman, 55, middle class. Reads Times, Yorkshire Post. Likes best 'Society news and editorials when I agree with them.... | | | Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Woman, 55, middle class. Reads Times, Yorkshire Post. Likes best 'Society news and editorials when I agree with them.... | | | Yorkshire Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Dad, who is usually very anxious for his dinner, is often late on Sunday, when he is busy studying the sports pages i... | | | Sunday Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read the Daily Herald because it gives full account of the news, It is rather inclined to be "partly" and sometimes... | | | Sunday Graphic | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read the Daily Herald because it gives full account of the news, It is rather inclined to be "partly" and sometimes... | | | Daily Sketch | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"I prefer the Daily Telegraph because I feel that the news is more genuine than the other daily newspaper print. I li... | | | Daily Telegraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read mainly the papers my parents take and they are not therefore my choice: Daily Mirror, Daily Mail. The former I... | | | Daily Mirror | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read mainly the papers my parents take and they are not therefore my choice: Daily Mirror, Daily Mail. The former I... | | | Daily Mail | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I always read sports page at breakfast and the rest in the evening. I read the Times in the train going to business, ... | | | Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I always read sports page at breakfast and the rest in the evening. I read the Times in the train going to business, ... | | | Mirror | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I always read sports page at breakfast and the rest in the evening. I read the Times in the train going to business, ... | | | People | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I glance through the papers at breakfast time, and give them careful attention before and after lunch. I glance throu... | | | Newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sometimes I read the paper in the morning train, after a casual glance at breakfast time. More usually I read it lunc... | | | Newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Breakfast time - that is 8 to 8.30. I rarely pick up the newspaper again during the day, unless there happens to be a... | | | Newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Let me describe my reading of the Daily Sketch. I first look and read beneath the front page pictures. The chief news... | | | Daily sketch | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I first glance at the personal columns, probably because they are on the front of the paper. Then I turn to the middl... | | | Daily Telegraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'On reading an article by Lord (then Mr) Keynes in The Times on working-class saving, I wrote to him about our survey.... | | John Keynes | article in The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I keep reading and reading the news, and I can't make out why I'm not more excited. I mean, it's so marvelous, really... | | | Newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Well, I'm a great admirer of her when she sings serious songs though I don't like her in films. There may be somethin... | | | Newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading The Case for Federal Union, one of the excellent Penguin Series. The prospect of Union seems to be remoter ev... | | unknown | The case for federal union | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been reading Sir. Robert Vansittart's little book "Black Record". I have found it very interesting. He certain... | | Robert Vansittart | Black Record | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '...he proclaimed himself a disciple of Rousseau. But he can hardly have followed the teaching of "Emile" very closely... | | Jeans-Jaques Rousseau | Emile | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your common student wrote to me about Blackwood's Magazine, shewing who wrote in it and who spoke of it; he talks abo... | [unknown student] anon | Walter Scott | Kenilworth | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your common student wrote to me about Blackwood's Magazine, shewing who wrote in it and who spoke of it; he talks abo... | [unknown student] anon | | Blackwood's magazine | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'Hobbies. Mentioned 10 times. Twice as normal, three times increased (walking, stamp collecting, reading). One "war ou... | | A.E. Housman | unknown | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | "If the foreman and checker were on good terms, then the checker could leave early. If not, he had to stay, biting his... | | | Mirror | Print: Newspaper |
| 1600-1699 | 'In the afternoon upon the Quarter-deck, the Doctor told Mr North and me an admirable story called "The Fruitlesse Pre... | | Paul Scarron | The Fruitless Precaution | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've been reading about miners' food difficulties. Isn't it disgusting-we starve the men who do one of the most impor... | | unknown | report on miners' conditions | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I don't really believe in any superstitions. Sitting down 13 at a table would never worry me in the slightest. Howeve... | | unknown | horoscope | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I suppose I retained this view for about nine months. My thoughts have now radically changed, and this is due in a ma... | | Robert Vansittart | Black Record | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '(I am reading from her reply): "I hope I shall remember to go Church and thank God for our victory and our safety. I ... | | unknown | letter about the post-war world | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'It's funny isn't it. Looks as if they want to get him out of the way. He's a bit too forward looking for them I think... | | Hannen Swaffer | unknown | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'About twenty people gathered and sat on chairs - some in meditation, others obviously praying. At first I thought thi... | | | Peace News | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was just reading how he was going to attack Ireland in the next five days. I don't like the sound of that., . . . I... | | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Every night when I go home I swear there are not more than three English people on the bus. The rudeness of them. A w... | | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A fortnight in London in June-July 1940, recuperating from Oxford Univ. Finals, I most clearly remember summer evenin... | | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I think astrology is the most reliable way of telling the future. Astrologers are so often right. I read him and stud... | | Lindoe | astrology books / articles | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'In reading the whole thing, I get a slight feeling of "leaning about" from question to question of the questionnaire.... | | | clothes rationing questionnaire | Print: questionnaire |
| 1900-1945 | 'Anyhow, their wives are being sent away. Mosley and his wife shouldn't be allowed to live together, but I suppose the... | | unknown | article about Oswald Mosley | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Except sometimes when my wife sits on the arm of my chair when I am reading, and proceeds to perform on my own nails,... | | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'He is about to go when he sees a copy of Bombers Moon by Negley Farson (8/6?). He picks it up to look at it. It inter... | | Negley Farson | Bombers Moon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '... only paper I read is the New Statesman once a week, this gives me condensed news of the week, is worth reading be... | | | New Stateman | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read more-not so much of the paper as light books and escapist stuff. I listen to the radio about the same.' | | unknown | [light books] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read more as I spend more time at home. Also I read fewer political works and more fiction.'
| | unknown | [light books] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read more. But cannot concentrate on the type of literature I like, preferring now, a light novel or auto-biography... | | unknown | [light reading] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read more. But cannot concentrate on the type of literature I like, preferring now, a light novel or auto-biography... | | | The New Statesman | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read more. But cannot concentrate on the type of literature I like, preferring now, a light novel or auto-biography... | | | Nation | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I now very rarely go out in the evening, mainly on account of wife and family; spend more time reading and playing in... | | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'In common with thousands of other people I have been doing knitting during the raids. In normal times I never have ti... | | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yes, I read more as have more time- but have gone onto novels and escapist literature- cannot read such books as The ... | | Phyllis Bottome | The Mortal Storm | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yes , I read more as have more time- but have gone onto novels and escapist literature- cannot read such books as The... | | G.E.R. Gedye | Fallen Bastions | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yes, I read more as have more time- but have gone onto novels and escapist literature- cannot read such books as The ... | | | Daily Worker | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yes, I read more as have more time- but have gone onto novels and escapist literature- cannot read such books as The ... | | | Tribune | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yes, I read more as have more time- but have gone onto novels and escapist literature- cannot read such books as The ... | | | The New Statesman | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I hardly read at all - I read the News Chronicle, it's all I have time for.' | | | News Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I never buy books, I only read the "Wizard".' | | | Wizard | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I only read weekly magazines, like the "Woman". I prefer sewing and knitting.' | | | The Woman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The only books I have the opportunity of reading are ration and points books.' | | | ration books | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The only books I have the opportunity of reading are ration and points books.' | | | points books | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I started to read a book called "Ishtar". It's not very good but I was very vague as to who Ishtar was - apparently t... | | E S Stevens | Ishtar | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Started to read "Disgrace Abounding" by Douglas Reed. He has got a bee in his bonnet about the Jews. Very insidious b... | | Douglas Reed | Disgrace Abounding | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading, MacNeice "Autumm Journal". I enjoyed it very much and think it good. A. Werth, "Moscow '41". Very good - cle... | | Louis MacNeice | Autumm Journal | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading H.V. Morton, "I James Blunt". I read it in half an hour. It is propaganda but first-class propaganda and inte... | | H V Morton | I James Blunt | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My library book now is "Byron in Italy" by Peter Quennell. I have not read much of Byron's poetry for many, many year... | | Peter Quennell | Byron in Italy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I prefer to go as soon as I can to the fountainhead, and to read, say, "Mein Kampf," to reading about Hitler. Such bo... | | Adolf Hitler | Mein Kampf | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On the whole in these casual ventures I go no further than about 2/6 a book, and most of my reading comes from such e... | | unknown | [cheap editions of books] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I'm afraid I just pick any books. I go in for light reading mostly. I've get two detective books for light reading, o... | | Brandon | Night club Murder | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I'm afraid I just pick any books. I go in for light reading mostly. I've get two detective books for light reading, o... | | Walter Scott | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I'm afraid I just pick any books. I go in for light reading mostly. I've get two detective books for light reading, o... | | Deeping | Shabby Summer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"I like books by Ruby M Ayres and Anne Duffield. The young lady usually chooses the books for me - she knows what I w... | | Ruby M Ayres | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"I like books by Ruby M Ayres and Anne Duffield. The young lady usually chooses the books for me - she knows what I w... | | Anne Duffield | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like light reading - something to occupy my mind so that I can knit and read at the same time - something that I c... | | unknown | [light reading] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I don't mind any author, so long as it's a genuine western story. I always read purely western, because they're more ... | | unknown | [western stories] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I'm not keen to read books dealing with the current situation. War's grim enough, I prefer to choose books without wa... | | Ian Hay | Night on Wheels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I'm not keen to read books dealing with the current situation. War's grim enough, I prefer to choose books without wa... | | E M Delafield | The Diary of a Provincial Lady | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My husband usually buys the penguin books. They're cheap and easy to carry about and afterwards he gives them away to... | | unknown | [detective fiction] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The girl has joined the library. She's a big reader. Reads about 2 books a week. She's begun to start bringing home "... | | unknown | ["love" stories] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [I read] 'Good books - Dickens, and Scott, and all that, but I don't believe I've opened a book since I got married, a... | | Charles Dickens | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [I read] 'Good books - Dickens, and Scott, and all that, but I don't believe I've opened a book since I got married, a... | | Walter Scott | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'An author's name carries weight with me, but results are sometimes disappointing - e.g. I enjoyed Evelyn Waugh's "Dec... | | Evelyn Waugh | Decline and Fall | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'An author's name carries weight with me, but results are sometimes disappointing - e.g. I enjoyed Evelyn Waugh's "Dec... | | Evelyn Waugh | Vile Bodies | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Just now I'm reading books [of] what I call Geography plus books that give great insight in [to] different places. I'... | | Gerald Samson | Warning Light of Asia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lately I've got interested in Spiritualism. I've read one book about it, I thought it was a lot of rubbish. That was ... | | Arthur Findlay | The Unfolding Universe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [I am reading] 'An endeavour to see whether or not war can sort of be got under control for the future. (Freud; War & ... | | Sigmund Freud | War and death | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I'm interested in Russia and want to know all about socialism. (Russia, Friend or Foe: Sloan)' | | Pat Sloan | Russia, Friend or Foe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I thought it would be interesting to me in my work (Salesmanship - Hover)' | | Hover | Salesmanship | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It appealed to me - I like books about the country and farms and country life in general. (Lost Fields: McLaverty)' | | Michael McLaverty | Lost Fields | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [I am reading this] 'Because I've got a ten week's old baby. (Practical Psychology: Allen)' | | Allen | Practical Psychology | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I'm taking up nursing, and I thought I would get a good inside knowledge from a book of this kind. (Hospital Nurse: S... | | Doreen Swinburne | Hospital Nurse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Most of the books I choose from the free library are for the wife. I cast my eye over the books vaguely searching for... | | unknown | synopsis of book | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've nearly finished "World's End" by Sinclair Lewis. It's a grand book. I started it because I enjoyed 'Between Two ... | | Sinclair Lewis | World's End | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading now "Time is the Spur". No, I don't know whom it is by. I was recommended to it by a friend, It's very g... | | unknown | Time is the Spur | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read various types of novels. Some books give long involved descriptions. I don't mind a little of that, but in add... | | Bessie Myers | Escape | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read what I call semi-serious novels. That is, it's got to have a love story woven through it, but at the same time... | | Phillip Gibbs | Nettle Danger | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read what I call semi-serious novels. That is, it's got to have a love story woven through it, but at the same time... | | Phillip Gibbs | The Sons and Others | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read what I call semi-serious novels. That is, it's got to have a love story woven through it, but at the same time... | | Phillip Gibbs | The Amazing Summer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read what I call semi-serious novels. That is, it's got to have a love story woven through it, but at the same time... | | Phillip Gibbs | Through the Dark Night | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I can't be bothered reading heavy stuff. I don't seem able to concentrate for long. I like books of the romantic and ... | | Pearl Buck | The Home Divided | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like thrillers and mysteries and oriental tales. Anything mystery which has nothing whatever to do with the war. I ... | | P.G. Wodehouse | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh, I like funny books, like Thorne Smith, you know, nothing too serious. ("For whom the Bell Tolls", Hemingway, was ... | | Ernest Hemingway | For whom the Bell Tolls | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh, I like funny books, like Thorne Smith, you know, nothing too serious. ("For whom the Bell Tolls", Hemingway, was ... | | Thorne Smith | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My children like to get hold of Charteris, the Saint Stories, you know. But it's a funny thing we can't get any of hi... | | Leslie Charteris | Saint stories | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like good modern books - I'm very fond of American books - or Dorothy Conyer's - good racy stories. I hate detecti... | | Naomi Jacobs | [early works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like good modern books - I'm very fond of American books - or Dorothy Conyer's - good racy stories. I hate detecti... | | Richard Llewellyn | How Green was My Valley | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like good modern books - I'm very fond of American books - or Dorothy Conyer's - good racy stories. I hate detecti... | | Faith Baldwin | Conflict | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like good modern books - I'm very fond of American books - or Dorothy Conyer's - good racy stories. I hate detecti... | | Dorothy Conyer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh, I like all kinds of books - historical, semi-biography, well written. I liked "How Green was My Valley": and "All... | | Richard Llewellyn | How Green was My Valley | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh, I like all kinds of books - historical, semi-biography, well written. I liked "How Green was My Valley": and "All... | | Rachel Field | All this and Heaven Too | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh, I like all kinds of books - historical, semi-biography, well written. I liked "How Green was My Valley": and "All... | | Brett Young | Portrait of a Village | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh, I like all kinds of books - historical, semi-biography, well written. I liked "How Green was My Valley": and "All... | | Georgette Heyer | Royal Escape | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh, I like all kinds of books - historical, semi-biography, well written. I liked "How Green was My Valley": and "All... | | Georgette Heyer | Spanish Bride | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh, I like all kinds of books - historical, semi-biography, well written. I liked "How Green was My Valley": and "All... | | Frankau | Royal Regiment | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh, I like all kinds of books - historical, semi-biography, well written. I liked "How Green was My Valley": and "All... | | unknown | Elizabeth of Bohemia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've read one book since the war "A Yank At Oxford". I liked that.....' | | John Monk Saunders | A Yank at Oxford | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I liked Rebecca and 'Gone with the Wind".' | | Daphne Du Maurier | Rebecca | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I liked Rebecca and 'Gone with the Wind".' | | Margaret Mitchell | Gone with the Wind | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like autobiography and I love a good thriller - I can't bear funny books other than Stephen Leacock. I don't like a... | | Stephen Leacock | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like anything good....something like "The Stars Looked Down" or "Gone with the Wind"...."Fame is the Spur" is a lov... | | Margaret Mitchell | Gone with the wind | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like anything good....something like "The Stars Looked Down" or "Gone with the Wind"...."Fame is the Spur" is a lov... | | Archibald Joseph Cronin | The Stars Looked Down | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like anything good....something like "The Stars Looked Down" or "Gone with the Wind"...."Fame is the Spur" is a lov... | | Howard Spring | Fame is the Spur | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lately I've been reading books about China and Russia. I figure it out this way: I read the newspapers and meet diffe... | | unknown | [books about China and Russia] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I despise all these novels and so on. I'm a retired Civil Servant and I chiefly read the Times, politics and things o... | | | The Times | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | [I read] 'Oh, anything political - I'm mad about politics -you know, India today and all that sort of thing and all th... | | H. Rathbone | What Next in Germany | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'For light reading I like biography and travel - I see there are one or two out about the South Seas that should be in... | | unknown | [biography and travel] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I enjoy most autobiographies and biography - you know Negley Farson's Travels - at the moment I'm reading Thackeray. ... | | Negley Farson | Travels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I enjoy most autobiographies and biography - you know Negley Farson's Travels - at the moment I'm reading Thackeray. ... | | W.M. Thackeray | The History of Pendennis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I enjoy most autobiographies and biography - you know Negley Farson's Travels - at the moment I'm reading Thackeray. ... | | John Galsworthy | Forsyte Saga | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I enjoy most autobiographies and biography - you know Negley Farson's Travels - at the moment I'm reading Thackeray. ... | | unknown | Heavenly Trouser | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"I don't read much - oh, a very mixed lot - "My Son Absalom" and "Fame is the Spur"' [then in response to question fr... | | unknown | My Son Absalom | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"I don't read much - oh, a very mixed lot - "My Son Absalom" and "Fame is the Spur"' [then in response to question fr... | | Howard Spring | Fame is the Spur | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"I don't read much - oh, a very mixed lot - "My Son Absalom" and "Fame is the Spur"' [then in response to question fr... | | Peter Fleming | News from Tartary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like Travel books - something uplifting - teaches you something. Of course, I like dirty books too....Have you read... | | unknown | [Travel books] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like Travel books - something uplifting - teaches you something. Of course, I like dirty books too....Have you read... | | John Blunt | unkown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like Travel books - something uplifting - teaches you something. Of course, I like dirty books too....Have you read... | | Adolf Hitler | Mein Kampf | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like Travel books - something uplifting - teaches you something. Of course, I like dirty books too....Have you read... | | Daphne Du Maurier | Rebecca | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like Travel books - something uplifting - teaches you something. Of course, I like dirty books too....Have you read... | | Margaret Mitchell | Gone with the Wind | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"Happy World" is a very charming description of the best bits of the old landed way of life. The race as a whole seem... | | unknown | Happy World | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'H. Williamson's "Norfolk Farm", for the detail making me feel I had lived those hard days myself.' | | H Williamson | Norfolk Farm | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"This Above All", Eric Knight. Believe me I lived and smelt through that book all the horrors of nights and days of b... | | Eric Knight | This Above All | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Dubliners, James Joyce. First time I read it I was not much impressed, but on reading them again I found much that I ... | | James Joyce | Dubliners | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Since the war began I have read less because my working hours have been lengthened and ARP duties and various social ... | | unknown | [political and social books] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read less now than before the war, owing to pressure of work - of a mental nature - and consequently prefer to spen... | | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Since the war began I have read less, chiefly because I am more tired and have less time. I never read until bed-time... | | unknown | [lighter literature] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I can no longer settle to fiction to anything like the extent I did before the war. Could read nothing but Jane Auste... | | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Housekeeping pupil (voluntarily) reading the paper over my shoulder yesterday morning.' | | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lady Chatterly's Lover is the absurdest pornography I have ever read, but The Man Who Died is one of the finest piece... | | D H Lawrence | Lady Chatterley's Lover | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lady Chatterly's Lover is the absurdest pornography I have ever read, but The Man Who Died is one of the finest piece... | | D H Lawrence | The Man Who Died | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'His novels rather date, but his essays are vivid and stimulating. Red Trousers comes to the mind as being real hot st... | | D H Lawrence | Red Trousers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ends and Means contains much that is good and new. Also his essays
are quite attractive, his novels are utter tripe.' | | Aldous Huxley | Ends and Means | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like his Brave New World but I do not think any of his other books are much good, in fact they bore me profoundly.' | | Aldous Huxley | Brave new world | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'We took our deck chairs into the garden and from 3 o' clock until 3.20 I read the paper whilst my wife knitted. At 3.... | | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Modern writers may not be up to the standard of the old writers, Dickens, Thackeray and Scott, but they're snappy-th... | | Charles Dickens | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read a newspaper chiefly from a sense of shame, because I dislike being ill-informed, and I am a social creature, a... | | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I look through a newspaper very much in the mood in which I go out for a stroll or light a cigarette by the front doo... | | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read the Daily Express because I like its human interest, the Telegraph because of its fairly accurate reporting...... | | | Daily Express | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read the Daily Express because I like its human interest, the Telegraph because of its fairly accurate reporting...... | | | Telegraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I prefer the Daily Telegraph because I feel that the news is more genuine than the other daily newspapers print. I li... | | | Daily Telegraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I consider the News Chronicle as unbiassed as any of the dailies, and, having the habit of reading that paper, do not... | | | News Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'We have the Sunday Express because it is more newsy, and the People because my mother likes the women's page and fath... | | | Sunday Express | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'We have the Sunday Express because it is more newsy, and the People because my mother likes the women's page and fath... | | | People | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I begin at the back page of the Daily Mail, and read straight through till I come to the front. I don't know why I do... | | | Daily Mail | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'On Monday, January 15, saw an Evening Standard placard with the words, "Hitler Will March, says Paris". But in the St... | | | Evening Standard | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'On Monday, January 15, saw an Evening Standard placard with the words, "Hitler Will March, says Paris" But in the Sta... | | | Star | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Man, 35, Jew. Entered at 6.10. Walked towards Daily Herald. A Cockney was reading it, Jew held one side of paper and ... | | | Daily Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Siegfried Line with Two French soldiers. The chief is reading a letter from his mother: "How are you getting on?" Air... | | | letter from his mother | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'After carrying out psychic research and reading reports and hypotheses by Lodge, Crookes, J.A. Findlay etc. I know to... | | Lodge | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After carrying out psychic research and reading reports and hypotheses by Lodge, Crookes, J.A. Findlay etc. I know to... | | Crookes | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After carrying out psychic research and reading reports and hypotheses by Lodge, Crookes, J.A. Findlay etc. I know to... | | J A Findlay | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At Wormwood Scrubs I lent a work on Henry VIII to a jewel thief. When he returned it, he remarked that he had enjoyed... | | [unknown] | [Henry VIII] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on the model for the domineering husband Colonel Forbes, in her novel [italics]Katherine Asht... | | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Katherine Ashton | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It was about noon, and the officers had all gone home to their dinners, when, as I sat on my stool munching my loaf a... | | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Eleanor L. Sewell, niece of Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in chapter 20 of [italics]The
Autobiography of Elizabeth Missi... | | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | works | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Eleanor L. Sewell, niece of Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in chapter 20 of [italics]The
Autobiography of Elizabeth Missi... | | | Visitors' book, Lollards' Tower, Lambeth | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have the Daily Mail and the News of the World for sport. They're getting a bit better than they were, but they're s... | | | Daily Mail | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have the Daily Mail and the News of the World for sport. They're getting a bit better than they were, but they're s... | | | News of the world | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'A master's debate at school set me thinking, and I decided for myself as far as I could at that age. At 16 I joined t... | | Dick Shepherd | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A master's debate at school set me thinking, and I decided for myself as far as I could at that age. At 16 I joined t... | | Aldous Huxley | Encyclopaedia of pacifism | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read it three times, and I can't make head or tail of it. Doesn't seem nothing in it somehow.' | | Adolf Hitler | [a speech] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'She is a woman of the artisan class, aged about 35. She was dressed in a brown coat with a fur collar, and had a scar... | | unknown | unknown | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A study was made on Armistice Day reactions, comparable to those made in previous years. Even at the Cenotaph there w... | [a priest] anon | unknown | prayer | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Well, I've only read the Telegraph, and I don't like it. Everything is contradicted later.' | | | Telegraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read the four PIL which we have had . They seem to give all the information required accurately and clearly, b... | | Ministry of Information | public information leaflets | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Two books I remember reading at one sitting are "Dr. Syn" and "The return of Dr. Syn" (Russell Thorndyke), these I re... | | Russell Thorndyke | Dr Syn | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Two books I remember reading at one sitting are "Dr. Syn" and "The return of Dr. Syn" (Russell Thorndyke), these I re... | | Russell Thorndyke | The return of Dr. Syn | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Conversion of hardened convict, as a result of a storm which brought terror to his mind:
'It was then I thought of Je... | | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in letter to '_____', from Albano, April 1861 [re Remains of Roman theatre at Tusculum]:
'T... | | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Lay of the Battle of Lake Regillus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in letter of 5 June 1861 to 'My Dear _____', headed 'Bugiasta or Pagiastra, or something of ... | | | 'Italian play' | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home, and made my boy read to me part of Dr Wilkins's new book of the " Character", and so to bed.'
(... | | John Wilkins | An essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then made the boy to read to me out of Dr Wilkins his "Real Character", and perticularly about Noah's arke, where... | | John Wilkins | An essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Thence walked to Barne elmes; and there, and going and coming, did make the boy read to me several things, being nowa... | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'My boy was with me, and read to me all day' | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'And so to dinner alone, having since church-time heard my boy read over Dryden's reply to Sir R Howard's answer about... | | John Dryden | A defence of an essay | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And so to dinner alone, having since church-time heard my boy read over Dryden's reply to Sir R Howard's answer about... | | Richard Flecknoe [?] | A letter from a gentleman to the Hon. Ed. Howard, Esq. | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So to supper, and the boy to read to me, and so to bed.' | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So back home to supper, and made my boy read to me a while, and then to bed.' | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And so back to my chamber, the boy to read to me; and so to supper and to bed.' | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home to supper, and the boy to read to me; and so to bed.' | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And so to hear my boy read a little, and supper and to bed.' | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and after dinner, all the afternoon got my wife and boy to read to me.' | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so made the boy read to me' | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and there I made my boy to read to me most of the night, to get through the "Life of the Archbishop of Caterbury".' | | Peter Heylyn | Cyprianus Anglicus, or The history of the life and death of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home and made my boy read to me Wilkins's "Reall Character", which doth please me mightily.' | | John Wilkins | An essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so with great content and joy home - where I made my boy to make an end of the "Reall Character", which I begun a... | | John Wilkins | An essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'making the boy read to me the life of Julius Caesar and Des Cartes book of music - the latter of which I understand n... | | Clement Edmonds | 'Life' prefaced to 'The commentaries of C. Julius Caesar' | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'making the boy read to me the life of Julius Caesar and Des Cartes book of music - the latter of which I understand n... | | Renatus Descartes | Compendium: Renatus DesCartes excellent compendium of musick: By a Person of Honour | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and after dinner, to get my wife and boy, one after another, to read to me - and so spent the afternoon and evening' | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so spent the whole morning with W. Hewer, he taking little notes in short-hand, while I hired a clerk to read to ... | | [unknown] | [documents on the history of the Navy] | Manuscript: Roll |
| 1450-1499
1500-1599 | 'Written by a scribe named Salthows between 1140 and 1450, probably in Norfolk, [British Library] MS Add. 61823 is con... | | Margery Kempe | The Book of Margery Kempe | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have not got a circulating library. It was too near Glasgow to thrive, and I am no ways acquainted in Glasgow. I a... | | Mary Russell Mitford | Fanny's Fairings | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'When I get home my noble aunt is reading the papers. At the time I was writing this the number of people reading the... | | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Every day for a fortnight at the end of February, an observer brought a copy of the "Daily Mirror" into the canteen a... | | | Daily Mirror | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Hundreds of men and women were standing on the stairs leading to the basement. They read newspapers, they chatted, t... | | | Daily Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Hundreds of men and women were standing on the stairs leading to the basement. They read newspapers, they chatted, t... | | | Daily Express | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Southey's long epic poem, called "Roderick the Last of the Goths", is the new work. Every one is busy reading it, or ... | | Robert Southey | Roderick: The Last of the Goths | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sir H. Davy is going to publish a volume of poetry. I saw one of the poems; it is very abstruse, and metaphysical, on... | | Humphry Davy | unknown | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have become acquainted with a Mr Cumberland, who must be agreeable, for he has an hereditary right to it. I have be... | | Richard Cumberland | Memoirs of Richard Cumberland: written by Himself | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have become acquainted with a Mr Cumberland, who must be agreeable, for he has an hereditary right to it. I have be... | | Richard Cumberland | Observer, The: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The clerk who cashes my cheques at the bank is quite a bright, intelligent-looking boy. To-day I had a copy of [itali... | | [unknown] | [French novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'One day as I was sitting in my Shop, a Woman who though very badly drest, had a Dignity in her Air which distinguish'... | | Laetitia Pilkington | [notice in her shop window] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | ' "Junior," she said to him, "you reeely must look. You remember Mrs Furnivall said that the part between Dieppy and ... | | | Time | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had a long conversation in the tram yesterday with an old maid who had just come back from Florence & talked about ... | | Ford Madox Ford | Holbein | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had a long conversation in the tram yesterday with an old maid who had just come back from Florence & talked about ... | | Maurice Hewlett | Little Novels of Italy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'a fervent young admirer exclaimed: "By Jove, the [underlined] Good Soldier [end underlining] is the finest novel in t... | | Ford Madox Ford | Good Soldier, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In my own day all mothers strictly forbade their daughters to read Rousseau's "Nouvelle Heloise", and all daughters, ... | | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Julie; ou, la Nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In my own day all mothers strictly forbade their daughters to read Rousseau's "Nouvelle Heloise", and all daughters, ... | | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Julie; ou, la Nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In my own day all mothers strictly forbade their daughters to read Rousseau's "Nouvelle Heloise", and all daughters, ... | | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Julie; ou, la Nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'With the same amusement [of secret knowledge about Scott's authorship] I now sit by the fire, sucking in the sagaciou... | | Walter Scott | Tales of my Landlord | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Scott (here) is as thorough-paced a lover of those books [The Waverley Novels] as either of us. I have been looki... | | Anne Louise Germaine, Baronne de Stael | Dix Années d'exil | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'in came the Rector with, "I have just been at the Hall, Ly Maria has just got the "Court Journal", which says "Trevel... | | [n/a] | Court Journal | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had a letter from Ly. -- on Tuesday that gave me great content, for I, like you, felt a little afraid that the Lady... | Lady [anon] | Jane Scott | Trevelyan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Do you not think the contrast of the manners between Melbourne House and Devonshire House [in "Glenarvon"] well drawn... | | Caroline Lamb | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Do you not think the contrast of the manners between Melbourne House and Devonshire House [in "Glenarvon"] well drawn... | | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Pray read "Tales of my Landlord". They are charming. I think there can be no doubt but that they are written by the A... | | Walter Scott | Tales of my Landlord | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'A Lady of Norfolk, by a letter to my friend Dr. Burney, has favoured me with the following solution [to the question ... | | Kenneth Macaulay | History of St Kilda | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The note announced, a little defiantly, that the writer had read, "with the utmost pleasure," my novel "The Dark Tide... | | Vera Brittain | The Dark Tide | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'An Officer in the Army once asked old Major Markham how he could make any Pleasure out of such a Book, it was Pope's ... | | Alexander Pope | Ethic Epistles | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We were talking of people who read awkwardly not knowing what they were about: Mr Johnson protested he knew two Lads ... | | William Chillingworth | Religion of Protestants a Safe Way to Salvation | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A Mother was making her Little Son read Nelson's Feasts and Fasts - this says he is a very good book to be sure Mama,... | | Robert Nelson | Companion for the festivals and fasts of the Church of England: With collects and prayers for each solemnity , A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Tues 27 Mar 1849 - Sat 31 Mar 1849: chaplain had accident on board ship, Matron reads Scriptures to convicts every mor... | | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Words of a gentleman, well known to Fry, desirous of seeing and judging for himself effects of the experiment in Newga... | | [n/a] | Bible (probably) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ms journal of Sophia de C-, one of the ladies of the Visiting Society for Newgate, entry dated 1 May 1817: 'Most of th... | | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fry explains reading to prisoners to Committee of House of Commons on the Prisons of the Metropolis, 27 Feb 1818: 'our... | | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Account of the gifts given to several female prisoners who burnt their playing cards: 'she called the first to her, an... | | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mary Joy was convicted in July, 1834 ... She remained in Newgate till the month of January, when a pardon was obtaine... | | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infan... | | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infan... | | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infan... | | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The case of Maria Manning is not one which it can be in any measure satisfactory to dwell upon ... Manning requested ... | | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'It was while serving here [Willenslee at the farm of Mr Laidlaw] , in the eighteenth year of my age, that I first got... | | Nathan Bailey | Dictionarium Britannicum | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat prairs I went about the house and wrought amonge my Maides, and hard one read of the Booke of Marters' | | John Foxe | Book of Martyrs (the title by which Foxe's Acts and Monuments of these Latter and Perilous Days was popularly known) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Prisoner's statement in trial for theft:
Joseph Smith: 'There was a gentleman in the tap-room, reading the newspaperâ... | | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for theft:
Frederick Shaw: 'Q. Were there any persons at the tap? A. There was one person ... | | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Dated Garrow, 1823, is transcribed the traditional Scottish ... | | anon [Trad.] | | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'The Diverting History of John Gilpin, Shew... | | William Cowper | John Gilpin | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'Signs of Pain: An excuse for not accepting... | | Edward Jenner | Signs of Rain | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'Anacreontic Lay', beginning 'Sing! - who s... | | Barry Cornwall | Anacreontic Lay | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of the traditional story of the 'Sportsman and... | | Traditional | The Sportsman and the Countryman | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'A Conservative Song, to the tune of "There... | | Anon. Traditional | A Conservative Song | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'Lines written on the Author's being asked ... | | St. George Tucker [attrib.] | Days of my Youth | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of lines beginning 'Oh, could we read on every... | | | 'Oh could we read on every brow' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of two lines from 'On a Laurel, cut down by a ... | | Merivale | On a Laurel, cut down by a Hatchet | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of advice from the 'Maga. of Health, 1836', be... | | | Magazine of Health | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'March to Moscow, Southey', beginning, 'Buo... | | Robert Southey | March to Moscow | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of two lines 'Do not slay him who deserves alo... | | Creech | 'Do not slay him...' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of lines 'In East Barnet Churchyard': 'Couldst... | | | Lines written in East Barnet Churchyard | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'These very pretty rhymes were written in the times of Eliza... | | anon [Traditional] | The Old and Young Courtier | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'Ballad "The old English Gentleman" sung by... | | anon [Traditional] | The Old English Gentleman | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'Extract from the Life of John Evelyn Esq p... | | William Bray (ed.) | Life of John Evelyn | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 2 Kings, 1:18-19, prefaced by 'Naaman to th... | | | 2 Kings 5: 18-19 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'From Gilly's Waldensian Researches'. Transcription of sever... | | William Stephen Gilly | Waldensian Researches, during a Second Visit to the Vaudois of Piemont... | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'The intrepidity of a just and good man nobly set forth by H... | | Horace | | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Translation of Madame la Countess de Genlis invocation at t... | | Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de St-Albin Comtesse de Genlis | Memoirs of the Countess of Genlis, Written by Herself | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of '"Crabbe's Paris Register" - Burials', begi... | | George Crabbe | Parish Register | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of information about the Burmese, 'Vid. 2 Year... | | Thomas Abercromby Trant | Two Years in Ava, from May 1824-May 1826 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of lines by '"Maria Blanche - eldest daughter ... | | Marie Blanche de Grignan | unidentified | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'March 1837'. Transcription of various of Madame de SĂ©vignĂ... | | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de SĂ©vignĂ© | The Letters of Madame de SĂ©vignĂ©, to her Daughter and her Friends | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Of M. De Glessir, Tutor to the young Marquis Grignan (Admir... | | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné | The Letters of Madame de Sévigné, to her Daughter and her Friends | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Under title 'Lord Snowdon': '"...and so he went on expatiati... | | Theodore Hook | Love and Pride | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Under title 'Lord Eldon's speech against the appeal of the T... | | Lord Eldon | Speech against the appeal of the Test and Corporation Act | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcribed a paragraph from 'T. Hooke, Jack Bragg', beginni... | | Theodore Hooke | Jack Bragg | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'In the following lines, by that pious and most excellent of... | | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'From Bell's weekly Messenger, April 13 1834. "The late Rudo... | C.M.G. [anon] | | Bell's Weekly Messenger (obituaries) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. '"Weep not for me ye daughters of Jerusalem" St Luke 23 Chap... | C.M.G. [anon] | | Gospel of St Luke, 23: 20-30 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Then died lamented in the strength of life 1827 "Called no... | C.M.G. [anon] | George Crabbe | The Mother's Funeral | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcribed two pages starting '"Aug 3rd 1664. During the Pl... | C.M.G. [anon] | | The Life of Thomas Sydenham M.D. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcribed a letter from 'Mr Evelyn to Mr Pepys, Wotton Aug... | C.M.G. [anon] | William Bray | Life of John Evelyn | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Several pages are transcribed from the 'Diary of an Ennuyee'. | C.M.G. [anon] | Anna Brownell Jameson | Diary of an Ennuyee | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Under title 'Naples, 1826', C.M.G. describes the city and (m... | C.M.G. [anon] | Dante Alighieri | Divina Commedia: Inferno | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. C.M.G. transcribes, under title 'The Ettrick Shepherd, Queen... | C.M.G. [anon] | James Hogg | Queen Hynde | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'St Paul at Philippi, from the Seatonian Prize Poems. - By t... | C.M.G. [anon] | Rev. J.E. Hankinson | St Paul at Philippi | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Mrs Hannah More says in her "Essay on Saint Paul," that he ... | C.M.G. [anon] | Hannah More | Essay on Saint Paul | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Approved remedies for Everyday Maladies. For a Fit of Passi... | C.M.G. [anon] | | Salisbury Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Notes are made on relationships in the Bible, e.g. two colum... | C.M.G. [anon] | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcribed: '"I compare marriage, even where there is no un... | C.M.G. [anon] | Richardson | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Maxims of Bishop Middleton'. Various maxims follow, includi... | C.M.G. [anon] | Bishop Middleton | Maxims | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Copied from the John Bull Newspaper, Novr 19 1837. Speech o... | C.M.G. [anon] | | John Bull Newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'Confidence and Distrust, 1840 Hare', begin... | | Hare | Confidence and Distrust | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Given me by the Revd. G. Walker.' Follows transcription of ... | | Red. G. Walker | sermon | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'If one may judge from the young men and women in their twenties who call here - one must accept that exceptionally fe... | | Joseph Conrad | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'Another [woman prisoner] read and re-read "Uncle Tom's Cabin," till
she must have known by heart every incident of t... | | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Print: Book |