√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statements in trial for highway robbery:
John Gavill: "I saw his [Davis] examination in the newspapers... I... | John Gavill | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1600-1699 | His words were not manie, yet he read all he sayd to us, a thing very unbecoming the chaire, and which I never before ... | Sir John Trevor | Sir John Trevor | [untitled] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | Joan Evans, "Prelude and Fugue: An Autobiography" (1964): 'One of my few conscious naughtinesses after I had attained ... | Joan Evans | Alfred Tennyson | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Joan Evans, "Prelude and Fugue: An Autobiography" (1964): 'One of my few conscious naughtinesses after I had attained ... | Joan Evans | Matthew Arnold | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Early reading of Joan Evans noted as having included Salomon Reinach, Orpheus: A History of Religions; Jane Harrison, ... | Joan Evans | Salomon Reinach | Orpheus:A History of Religions | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Early reading of Joan Evans noted as having included Salomon Reinach, Orpheus: A History of Religions; Jane Harrison, ... | Joan Evans | Jane Harrison | Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Early reading of Joan Evans noted as having included Salomon Reinach, Orpheus: A History of Religions; Jane Harrison, ... | Joan Evans | Farnell | Cults of the Greek States | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Early reading of Joan Evans noted as having included Salomon Reinach, Orpheus: A History of Religions; Jane Harrison, ... | Joan Evans | Sir James George Frazer | The Golden Bough | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | H. J. Jackson notes annotations made by John James Raven over period of around 40-50 years in copy of Macaulay's Lays ... | John James Raven | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Lays of Ancient Rome: with "Ivry" and "The Armada" | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Took "Letters from Norway & c" back to the Vestry Library. I did not read them, but Mr E. said they were very enterta... | Joseph Evans | Mary Wollstonecraft | Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Took Pennant's "View of Hindoostan" to Library; I have not read it but, Mr E. says it is very entertaining. There are... | Joseph Evans | Thomas Pennant | Outlines of the Globe: the View of Hindoostan | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was too much engaged with Gibbon to bestow time on reading "Causes and Consequences"; Mr E. However, read it & was ... | Joseph Evans | Edward Gibbon | History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Took Colquhoun's "treatise of the police of the metropolis" to the library. I have not read it but, Mr Evans has; he ... | Joseph Evans | Patrick Colquhoun | Treatise of the police of the metrpolis | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; wh... | John Evelyn | John Evelyn | Elysium Britannicum | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; wh... | John Evelyn | John Evelyn | Thersander [probably] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; wh... | John Evelyn | John Evelyn | [poems] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; wh... | John Evelyn | John Evelyn | Celia afraid of an eagle | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Conversion of convict J- V-; when came on board the ship he was a convinced socialist, and when appointed school teach... | | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Conversion of convict J- V-; when came on board the ship he was a convinced socialist, and when appointed school teach... | | [n/a] | [devotional texts] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Jonas Levy: 'I read in the newspaper that a man named Jones was taken up for s... | Jonas Levy | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Say, too, that I received his Life of Napoleon, and have read it this winter - in the evening and at night - with att... | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Walter Scott | Life of Napoleon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Amid several warmly appreciative judgements came a frank note from St. John Ervine, who wrote that my book had entire... | St. John Ervine | Vera Brittain | Testament of Youth | Print: Book |