Reception and history of reading

  • The READ-IT Project: Reading practices in Europe from the 18th to the 21st century.
  • UK Reading Experience Database (RED): Readers in Britain from 1450 to 1945.
  • History of Reading: Open University course on the history of reading, closely linked to RED.
  • The Australian Common Reader: Australian regional library records from 1861–1928.
  • What Middletown Read: Muncie (Indiana) public library records from 1891 to 1902.
  • Books and Borrowing: Scottish borrowers’ registers, 1750-1830.
  • Memories of Fiction: Oral-history accounts of reading lives.