| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yesterday my Elizabeth and I went to the most remarkable poets' Reading I have ever attended. It was held at Lord Byr... | William Henry Davies | William Henry Davies | 'Love's Silent Hour' and three other poems | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for housebreaking/receiving stolen goods:
Thomas Davies: "I think it was in the middle o... | Thomas Davies | | Morning Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for murder:
Samuel Davis: [in reply to question about length of time he spent in the wat... | Samuel Davies | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for housebreaking:
Stephen Davies: "on the 23rd of December he came again -I had the goo... | Stephen Davies | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | [D.R. Davies was inspired by his school teacher] 'to read Macaulay's History of England before his twelfth birthday' | D.R. Davies | Thomas Babington Macaulay | The History of England from the Accession of James II | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest ... | D.R. Davies | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest ... | D.R. Davies | Charles Lamb | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest ... | D.R. Davies | William Hazlitt | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest ... | D.R. Davies | John Ruskin | The Crown of Wild olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic and War | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest ... | D.R. Davies | Karl Marx | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest ... | D.R. Davies | Adam Smith | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest ... | D.R. Davies | John Stuart Mill | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest ... | D.R. Davies | David Ricardo | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest ... | D.R. Davies | Alfred Marshall | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest ... | D.R. Davies | George Bernard Shaw | Fabian Essays | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest ... | D.R. Davies | | [trade union history] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest ... | D.R. Davies | Thomas Hardy | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest ... | D.R. Davies | George Meredith | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest ... | D.R. Davies | Rudyard Kipling | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest ... | D.R. Davies | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory... | | [unknown] | [detective thrillers] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory... | | [unknown] | [Western novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory... | | [n/a] | [local and sports papers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory... | Derek Davies | [n/a] | [local and sports papers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory... | Derek Davies | [unknown] | [Western novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory... | Derek Davies | [unknown] | [detective thrillers] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory... | Derek Davies | [unknown] | [children's books] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory... | Derek Davies | [unknown] | [travel books, including some on Tibet] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory... | Derek Davies | [n/a] | The Wizard | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory... | Derek Davies | [n/a] | The Hotspur | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory... | Derek Davies | [anon] | The Illustrated News History of the 1914-18 War | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory... | Derek Davies | [n/a] | [books on model railways] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory... | Derek Davies | T.E. Lawrence | The Seven Pillars of Wisdom | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls ... | William Henry Davies | unknown | [Penny Dreadfuls] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls ... | William Henry Davies | Walter Scott | [from 'The Lady of the Lake'] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls ... | William Henry Davies | unknown | 'The Soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls ... | William Henry Davies | William Shakespeare | [extracts in school textbook] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls ... | William Henry Davies | unknown | [didactic poems] | 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... | William Henry Davies | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | 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... | William Henry Davies | Percy Bysshe Shelley | | 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... | William Henry Davies | Christopher Marlowe | | 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... | William Henry Davies | William Shakespeare | [works not reproduced in schoolbooks] | 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... | William Henry Davies | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [When in hospital in Renfrew, Canada, W.H. Davies] 'commented on the inappropriateness of some of the reading matter s... | William Henry Davies | unknown | Freddie's Friend | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [When in hospital in Renfrew, Canada, W.H. Davies] 'commented on the inappropriateness of some of the reading matter s... | William Henry Davies | unknown | Little Billie's Button | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [When in hospital in Renfrew, Canada, W.H. Davies] 'commented on the inappropriateness of some of the reading matter s... | William Henry Davies | unknown | Sally's Sacrifice | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As our roads home from school lay for a considerable distance in the same direction, Tommy Davies...and I generally w... | Tommy Davies | [n/a] | [playbill] | Print: Broadsheet, Poster, playbill |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 17 May 1925: 'Yesterday we had tea with Margaret in her new house [...] She is severe to Lilian [Harris, her co... | Margaret Caroline Llewelyn Davies | Ethel M. Dell | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 17 May 1925: 'Yesterday we had tea with Margaret in her new house [...] She is severe to Lilian [Harris, her co... | Margaret Caroline Llewelyn Davies | Charles Dickens | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Scrope Davies to John Murray, 17 May 1837:
'Barring the "Bubbles" (which I read because you recommended it to Nimro... | Scrope Davies | | 'Bubbles' | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Scrope Davies to John Murray, 17 May 1837:
'Barring the "Bubbles" (which I read because you recommended it to Nimro... | Scrope Davies | Washington Irving | 'Stout Gentleman' | Print: Unknown |