| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1900-1945 | 'I spent hours, days, in the great Reading Room of the Mitchell Library. Young as I was, in my ragged shorts, frayed j... | Ralph Glasser | [n/a] | Who's Who | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I spent hours, days, in the great Reading Room of the Mitchell Library. Young as I was, in my ragged shorts, frayed j... | Ralph Glasser | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A few weeks before my fourteenth birthday I read that Einstein was coming to Glasgow to address the university, and m... | Ralph Glasser | [n/a] | [announcement of Einstein talk] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'After I left school, the Mitchell became if possible even more important. I read widely, indiscriminately: the lives ... | Ralph Glasser | [n/a] | Encyclopaedia Britannica | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After I left school, the Mitchell became if possible even more important. I read widely, indiscriminately: the lives ... | Ralph Glasser | [n/a] | [dictionaries] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After I left school, the Mitchell became if possible even more important. I read widely, indiscriminately: the lives ... | Ralph Glasser | [unknown] | [books of biography, history, philosophy, etc] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Press reports from Russia had an unreal quality, suggesting that observers did not dare believe the horror thinly con... | Ralph Glasser | [n/a] | [newspaper reports on Russia] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I found the letter when I got home about seven in the evening. While I read it I bolted my teas as usual. Then I read... | Ralph Glasser | [unknown] | [acceptance letter from Oxford University] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'I went into the grey monastic quad of the Bodleian, the Old School quad, and read the legend in gold above each doorw... | Ralph Glasser | [n/a] | [inscriptions at the Bodleian library] | Manuscript: Graffito |
| 1900-1945 | 'There was Hamish, confirmed practical joker, who donned stage make-up and a false beard and, pretending serious resea... | Ralph Glasser | John Wilkes | Essay on Woman | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'For most of my first term I rose at [5 a.m.] and bathed and shaved and dressed, and read till breakfast time - until ... | Ralph Glasser | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'One day, alone for a moment in a girl's room in Lady Margaret Hall - she had gone to fetch a tea-pot from along the c... | Ralph Glasser | [unknown] | [a girl's diary] | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1900-1945 | 'I marvelled that "The Road to Wigan Pier", to me naive, had made such a stir. I could think of nothing in it that was... | Ralph Glasser | George Orwell | Road to Wigan Pier, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had worshipped Cole on the printed page, and my first sight of him in the flesh was fittingly magical.' | Ralph Glasser | G.D.H. Cole | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In my sisters' letters, reading between the lines, I found a self-justifying resentment, the accusation - mystifying ... | Ralph Glasser | Lilian Glasser | [letters] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read the letters [from Aunt Rachel] again and again as I strode furiously across the Parks, and the wind threw tear... | Ralph Glasser | Rachel | [letters from Glasser's aunt] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'Father's brief lines were full of a sombre perplexity only too familiar. Indirectly, however, they carried a special ... | Ralph Glasser | Mr Glasser | [letters to his son, Ralph] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was intensely interested in the Romantics at this time, that explosion of creative thought so inadequately explaine... | Ralph Glasser | [unknown] | [Romantic texts and works about Romanticism] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read German poetry with the aged, charming Fraulein Wuschack, sometime governess in the Kaiser's family'. | Ralph Glasser | [unknown] | [German poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'With Mademoiselle Fleury that morning I had been struck by some lines in Ronsard's "Sonnets pour Helene", bittersweet... | Ralph Glasser | Pierre Ronsard | Sonnets pour Helene | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Towards the end of the war I would receive a letter in her tiny, rounded hand, one of those wartime "pre-mission" let... | Ralph Glasser | Rachel | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'The next I learned of him [his old friend Alec] was some time after D-Day, when I read the posthumous citation'. | Ralph Glasser | [unknown] | [citation for bravery] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'In all seriousness he [Victor Gollancz] could flaunt a prophetic grandeur, or perhaps simply uncontrolled showmanship... | Ralph Glasser | Victor Gollancz | "Let my people go": some practical proposals for dealing with Hitler's massacre of the Jews | |
| 1900-1945 | 'An exception [to the intellectual triviality Glasser found at Oxford], far from generously recognised, was R.G. Colli... | Ralph Glasser | R.G. Collingwood | Speculum Mentis, or the Map of Knowledge | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the dimness I had missed - how could I have done! - a few lines of crabbed writing at the very top of the paper, s... | Ralph Glasser | [n/a] | [Oxford Finals Class Lists] | Print: Poster |
| 1900-1945 | 'When fairly launched into a subject, especially in a formal lecture in his favourite field, French political thought,... | Ralph Glasser | Harold Joseph Laski | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Writing on liberty, arguing that its attainment was an inborn duty, he said that in order to divine its proper use on... | Ralph Glasser | Harold Joseph Laski | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A colleague at the Council, later to achieve distinction as a poet, sent me a copy of his first slim volume of verse ... | Ralph Glasser | [unknown] | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reggie Smith, also a producer at the BBC, was married to the novelist Olivia Manning. She was to draw him with exquis... | Ralph Glasser | Olivia Manning | Balkan Trilogy, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There, on warm weekend days, I would sit and read in a peaceful arbour where trees and shrubbery muffled the noise of... | Ralph Glasser | | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The music of "La Boheme" having taken special hold of me, I read the libretto in the Mitchell Library, and as much as... | Ralph Glasser | Luigi Illica | [libretto of 'La Boheme] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The music of "La Boheme" having taken special hold of me, I read the libretto in the Mitchell Library, and as much as... | Ralph Glasser | Henry Murger | Scenes de la Vie de Boheme | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Tom, an Oxford contemporary] Following an elite fashion among moneyed aesthetes, he published, privately, a slim vol... | Ralph Glasser | Tom | Eyes of Adonis | Print: Book |