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Stories Of Alpine Adventure

Read by Steve C

Frank Mundell

Mont Blanc is the Monarch of the Mountains: They crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow. (Byr…

Stories Of Balloon Adventure

Read by Steve C

Frank Mundell

In the following pages will be found brief narratives of some of the more famous incidents and exciting episodes which mark the history of b…

Stories of the Fire Brigade

Read by Steve C

Frank Mundell

The stories presented here have been collected from reports of actual incidents responded to by various fire brigades with examples from bot…

Stories of the Royal Humane Society

Read by Steve C

Frank Mundell

Established in 1774, the ‘Society for the Recovery of Persons Apparently Drowned’ published information on how to save people from drowning,…

An Idler In The Wilds

Read by Steve C

Tickner Edwardes

Although he was well known around the South Downs in West Sussex as 'The Bee-man of Burpham', Tickner Edwardes also had a great affinity for…

The Burston Rebellion

Read by Steve C

Thomas George Higdon

The early 20th century in Great Britain saw a seismic shift in political awareness especially amongst the working classes. This led to a sig…

Mapping Nijinsky’s Cross - Cultural Legacy: Min Tanaka’ s Le Sacré du Printemps …

In Revisiting the Rite: The Rite of Spring Centenary Conference

Read by Lucy Weir

Various

University of Oxford Podcasts

Practices of Criminals i

In Criminal Investigation: a Practical Handbook for Magistrates, Police Officers a…

Read by Steve

Hans Gross

Reputedly inspired by the Sherlock Holmes stories, Austrian criminal jurist and examining magistrate Hans Gross wrote the first handbook on …

Preface and Expedition Members

In The Journals of Robert Falcon Scott; Volume 1 of 'Scott's Last Expedition' (Ver…

Read by Steve Gough

Robert Falcon Scott

Captain Scott’s ill-fated journey to the Antarctic Pole in 1911 is part triumph, part tragedy – but also a mythic adventure story which has …

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