| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1700-1799 | 'about this time I began to practis accounts, I bought a Book, & Slate, and got somebody to set me a gate at the begin... | Benjamin Shaw | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'god was Merciful & spoke Peace to my Soul, & now I found that with god which Passeth all understanding, & rejoiced al... | Benjamin Shaw | [n/a] | Bible ['the scriptures'] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'the last weeks paper stated, that 200, 000 were out of work within 20 miles of manchester, &c, & the long drought is ... | Benjamin Shaw | [n/a] | [Newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | '[Part of a description of his wife] very impatient of contradiction, Reproof She cannot Brook- Milton' [This is a mis... | Benjamin Shaw | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |