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Reminiscences and Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers - Banker, Poet and Patron of the …

Read by Barbara Baker


Samuel Rogers


Samuel Rogers was a renowned conversationalist who associated with the most distinguished persons of his time. This volume contains fascinat…

Short Account of the History of Mathematics

Read by Paul E J King


W. W. Rouse Ball


This is a history of mathematics from antiquity to the turn of the 20th century. (Summary by Paul King)

Ancient Egypt

Read by Richard Parkinson and Barbara Ewing


Richard Parkinson and Barbara Ewing


University of Oxford Podcasts

Chapter 15 - Part 2

In Lay Down Your Arms: The Autobiography of Martha von Tilling

Read by Barbara


Bertha Von Suttner


Die Waffen Nieder, in English: Lay Down Your Arms is a fictional biography, which describes four wars from the perspective of a soldier's wi…

Well Done

In The Negro Laborer: A Word to Him

Read by Barbara


William H. Councill


William H. Councill, former slave and contemporary of Booker T. Washington was founder of Huntsville Normal School, now Alabama Agricultural…

Stem cells: what are they and why are they important

In Department for Continuing Education's guest lectures

Read by Richard Gardner


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

17 - A Christmas Present

In A Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter

Read by Cheri Gardner


Alice Turner Curtis


Sylvia Fulton is a ten-years-old girl from Boston who stayed in Charleston, South Carolina, before the opening of the Civil War. She loves h…

The Pen and the Inkstand

In Children's Short Works, Vol. 012

Read by Cheri Gardner


Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) and Hans Christian Andersen


Librivox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 012: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

29 – Home at Last!

In The Ghost Ship

Read by Cheri Gardner


John C. Hutcheson


This book intentionally veers in and out of the supernatural, as the title implies. The officers get more and more bewildered as they work o…

The Boarding House

In Short Story Collection Vol. 005

Read by Heath Gardner


James Joyce


LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 005: a collection of 20 works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members.

19 - THE FEAST AT FARMER GREEN'S

In Tale of Buster Bumblebee

Read by Cheri Gardner


Arthur Scott Bailey


Buster Bumblebee and his family move into a new home. Excitement and buzzing abound. Buster meet a strange fellow called a carpenter bee, wa…

Intimation

In Song-Surf

Read by Christina Gardner


Cale Young Rice


This is the third volume of poetry written by Kentucky poet Cale Young Rice, published in 1900. The volume contains several poems written du…

Against Carefulness (6:25-34)

In Matthew, from Horae Homileticae

Read by Keith Gardner


Charles Simeon


Simeon's Works, as they were published 1832, fill twenty-one large octavo volumes, and the title-page reads, 'Horae Homileticae or Discourse…

13 - THE CEREMONY OF THE INTERVIEW OF PRINCES

In Essays book 1

Read by Cheri Gardner


Michel de Montaigne and Michel Eyquem De Montaigne


Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary …

QUEER FEET AND A QUEERER BILL: The Ruffed Grouse and the Crossbills.

In The Burgess Bird Book for Children

Read by Jamie Gardner


Thornton W. Burgess


The Burgess Bird Book for Children is a zoology book written in the form of a story featuring Peter Rabbit. Peter learns from his friend Je…

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