| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Christopher Thomson was a "zealous" Methodist until he discovered Shakespeare, Miilton, Sterne and Dr Johnson at a ci... | Christopher Thomson | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Christopher Thomson was a "zealous" Methodist until he discovered Shakespeare, Miilton, Sterne and Dr Johnson at a ci... | Christopher Thomson | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Christopher Thomson was a "zealous" Methodist until he discovered Shakespeare, Miilton, Sterne and Dr Johnson at a ci... | Christopher Thomson | Laurence Sterne | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Christopher Thomson was a "zealous" Methodist until he discovered Shakespeare, Miilton, Sterne and Dr Johnson at a ci... | Christopher Thomson | Samuel Johnson | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When I had been in school about twelve months, he resolved that one of the boys should read a chapter from the New Te... | Christopher Thomson | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I now became anxious to read all that came in any way, and like most juveniles, felt a deep interest in the reading o... | Christopher Thomson | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I now became anxious to read all that came in any way, and like most juveniles, felt a deep interest in the reading o... | Christopher Thomson | Peter Longueville | The hermit Philip Quarll | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I now became anxious to read all that came in any way, and like most juveniles, felt a deep interest in the reading o... | Christopher Thomson | Robert Boyle | Boyle's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My father was likewise very fond of reading; he now proposed to encourage my love of books, by entering me a subscrib... | Christopher Thomson | [unknown] | [religious tracts] | Print: Book, Broadsheet, tracts |
| 1800-1849 | 'My father was likewise very fond of reading; he now proposed to encourage my love of books, by entering me a subscrib... | Christopher Thomson | [unknown] | [religious magazines] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'On presenting ourselves at a little shop in the Market Place, a popular circulating library, the old spectacle-nosed ... | Christopher Thomson | Thomas Skinner | Splendid misery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, ... | Christopher Thomson | Matthew Lewis | The Monk | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, ... | Christopher Thomson | John Milton | [various titles] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, ... | Christopher Thomson | William Shakespeare | [various titles] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, ... | Christopher Thomson | [Samuel?] Johnson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, ... | Christopher Thomson | Laurence Sterne | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In early life, I have said, my attention was turned to politics. My first impressions were for universality. "Cobbett... | Christopher Thomson | William Cobbett | Cobbett's political register | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'In early life, I have said, my attention was turned to politics. My first impressions were for universality. "Cobbett... | Christopher Thomson | Thomas Jonathan Wooler | Black Dwarf | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "Penny Magazine" was published - I borrowed the first volume, and determined to make an effort to possess myself ... | Christopher Thomson | Charles Knight | Penny Magazine | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ... | Christopher Thomson | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ... | Christopher Thomson | | Philip Quarll | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ... | Christopher Thomson | Boyle | Travels | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ... | Christopher Thomson | | religious tracts | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ... | Christopher Thomson | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ... | Christopher Thomson | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ... | Christopher Thomson | | Cobbett's Political Register | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ... | Christopher Thomson | | The Black Dwarf | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ... | Christopher Thomson | | mechanics' magazines | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ... | Christopher Thomson | Walter Scott | novels | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ... | Christopher Thomson | George Gordon, Lord Byron | poetry | Print: Book |