| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'In the lower part of the newsagent's windows were the journals that catered for me. By would be reformers they were l... | Joseph Stamper | Edward L. Wheeler | Deadwood Dick | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'In the lower part of the newsagent's windows were the journals that catered for me. By would be reformers they were l... | Joseph Stamper | [unknown] | Bronco Bill | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'In the lower part of the newsagent's windows were the journals that catered for me. By would be reformers they were l... | Joseph Stamper | [unknown] | Jack Wright | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and w... | Joseph Stamper | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Hiawatha | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and w... | Joseph Stamper | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Evangeline | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and w... | Joseph Stamper | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and w... | Joseph Stamper | John Keats | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and w... | Joseph Stamper | Homer | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and w... | Joseph Stamper | Pliny the Younger | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and w... | Joseph Stamper | Aesop | Fables | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'When I grew into a youth and read everything I got my hands on, from Penny Dreadfuls to the Holy Scriptures, I came a... | Joseph Stamper | [n/a] | Holy Scriptures | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'When I grew into a youth and read everything I got my hands on, from Penny Dreadfuls to the Holy Scriptures, I came a... | Joseph Stamper | [unknown] | Penny Dreadfuls | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'When I grew into a youth and read everything I got my hands on, from Penny Dreadfuls to the Holy Scriptures, I came a... | Joseph Stamper | Richard Church | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'When I was a youth I envied others having this capacity to make close friends. I even bought a book, "How To Make Fri... | Joseph Stamper | [unknown] | How to make friends and influence people | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My mother used to read the novels of Miss Braddon and Mrs Henry Wood, and those in a series called "The Family Story ... | Polly Stamper | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My mother used to read the novels of Miss Braddon and Mrs Henry Wood, and those in a series called "The Family Story ... | Polly Stamper | Mrs Henry Wood | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My mother used to read the novels of Miss Braddon and Mrs Henry Wood, and those in a series called "The Family Story ... | Polly Stamper | Mrs Henry [Ellen] Wood | East Lynne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My mother used to read the novels of Miss Braddon and Mrs Henry Wood, and those in a series called "The Family Story ... | Polly Stamper | [n/a] | The Family Storyteller | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'My mother used to read the novels of Miss Braddon and Mrs Henry Wood, and those in a series called "The Family Story ... | Joseph Stamper | Mrs Henry [Ellen] Wood | East Lynne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My father took me to see them sold up. He must have been off work again, foundry work was little better than casual l... | Joseph Stamper | [unknown] | [notice] | Manuscript: Graffito |
| 1850-1899 | 'There is a book you may have come across, and that was read a lot when I was young, called the Bible. I used to read ... | Joseph Stamper | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Whilst waiting my turn and having observed all these things, I started to spell out a notice above the mirror, I coul... | Joseph Stamper | [unknown] | [notice] | Print: Advertisement, Poster |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'None of the periodicals shown there are alive today. There was "Ally Sloper's Half-Holiday", my favourite comic. When... | Joseph Stamper | Charles Henry Ross | Ally Sloper's Half-Holiday | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'There was the "Police News" and the "Police Budget". I don't think these had any connection, officially, with the pol... | Joseph Stamper | [n/a] | Police News | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'There was the "Police News" and the "Police Budget". I don't think these had any connection, officially, with the pol... | Joseph Stamper | [n/a] | Police Budget | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Also on pink newsprint were "Sketchy Bits" and "Photo Bits". Most of the "bits" in these journals had huge nude thigh... | Joseph Stamper | [n/a] | Sketchy Bits | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Also on pink newsprint were "Sketchy Bits" and "Photo Bits". Most of the "bits" in these journals had huge nude thigh... | Joseph Stamper | [n/a] | Photo Bits | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Also on pink newsprint were "Sketchy Bits" and "Photo Bits". Most of the "bits" in these journals had huge nude thigh... | Joseph Stamper | Edward L. Wheeler | Deadwood Dick | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Now that we had gas I found it much easier and pleasanter to read. When I had read all my own periodicals I used to r... | Polly Stamper | [n/a] | Heartsease Library | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Now that we had gas I found it much easier and pleasanter to read. When I had read all my own periodicals I used to r... | Joseph Stamper | [n/a] | Heartsease Library | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Now that we had gas I found it much easier and pleasanter to read. When I had read all my own periodicals I used to r... | Joseph Stamper | Mrs Henry [Ellen] Wood | The Channings | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Now that we had gas I found it much easier and pleasanter to read. When I had read all my own periodicals I used to r... | Joseph Stamper | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Lady Audley's Secret | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Now that we had gas I found it much easier and pleasanter to read. When I had read all my own periodicals I used to r... | Polly Stamper | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Lady Audley's Secret | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Now that we had gas I found it much easier and pleasanter to read. When I had read all my own periodicals I used to r... | Polly Stamper | Mrs Henry [Ellen] Wood | The Channings | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | '[Father] had joined the PSA at the YMCA. That is: the Pleasant Sunday Afternoon at the Young Men's Christian Associat... | | Henry Cockton | The Life and Adventures of Valentine Vox, Ventriloquist | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | '[Father] had joined the PSA at the YMCA. That is: the Pleasant Sunday Afternoon at the Young Men's Christian Associat... | | [unknown] | Sylvestre Sound | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | '[Father] had joined the PSA at the YMCA. That is: the Pleasant Sunday Afternoon at the Young Men's Christian Associat... | | [unknown] | Somnambulist | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | '[Father] had joined the PSA at the YMCA. That is: the Pleasant Sunday Afternoon at the Young Men's Christian Associat... | | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '...went along to the reference room of the public library to look up data on African trees. I searched the shelves an... | Joseph Stamper | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[given an alternative text by the librarian, entitled 'Young People's First Book of Trees'] Every time the man came t... | Joseph Stamper | [unknown] | Young People's First Book of Trees | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'I was reading a lot of magazine stories now. There was a boys' reading-room at the public library; the magazines were... | Joseph Stamper | [n/a] | Strand Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'I was reading a lot of magazine stories now. There was a boys' reading-room at the public library; the magazines were... | Joseph Stamper | [n/a] | Windsor | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'I was reading a lot of magazine stories now. There was a boys' reading-room at the public library; the magazines were... | Joseph Stamper | [n/a] | Pearson's | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'These artless idealists had their favourite authors, which I now proceeded to read...Their piece de resistance was Si... | Joseph Stamper | Thomas More | Utopia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'These artless idealists had their favourite authors, which I now proceeded to read...Their piece de resistance was Si... | Joseph Stamper | William Morris | [prose works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'These artless idealists had their favourite authors, which I now proceeded to read...Their piece de resistance was Si... | Joseph Stamper | William Morris | The Story of the Unknown Church | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'These artless idealists had their favourite authors, which I now proceeded to read...Their piece de resistance was Si... | Joseph Stamper | Edward Bellamy | Looking Backwards | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'The following Saturday afternoon [father] was a bit late getting home from work; he must have gone to the second-hand... | Joseph Stamper | [anon] | Guy's Expositor | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'I had started to write "poetry". I was reading masses of it in the Penny Poets, and I thought I would like to be a po... | Joseph Stamper | [n/a] | [Penny Poets] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'And the female crocodile does make a nest! I had read all about it in a book from the library...' | Joseph Stamper | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'I was getting a lot of stiff reading out of the public library, now, "for my father". One work was "Quain's Anatomy" ... | Joseph Stamper | [unknown] | Quain's Anatomy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'I read a lot of astronomy and that, too, was wonderful. The world is full of wonders if one only looks for them. One ... | Joseph Stamper | [unknown] | [Astronomy and spectrum analysis] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'I was so interested in spectrum analysis that I took the big book to school with me, to read in playtime. The desks w... | Joseph Stamper | [unknown] | [Astronomy and spectrum analysis] | Print: Book |