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Frederic the Great

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Thomas Babington Macaulay


Macaulay's review essay on Frederick the Great of Prussia is found in vol. iii of his Critical and Historical Essays, and concentrates prima…

Coningsby, or The New Generation

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Benjamin Disraeli


Coningsby is the first of trilogy of political novels that Disraeli published in the 1840s, and gives an insight into his views of the polit…

Lord Clive

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Thomas Babington Macaulay


Robert Clive was, in Macaulay’s view, the real founder of British power in India. Macaulay himself served on the Governor’s Council in India…

Seven Men

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Max Beerbohm


In order to liven up the literary history of Great Britain in the 1890s (as if Oscar Wilde, Stevenson, Kipling, Hardy, etc., were not lively…

Warren Hastings

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Thomas Babington Macaulay


"Warren Hastings" is Chapter IV of Thomas Macaulay's Critical and Historical Essays, vol. III. It first appeared in the Edinburgh …

La Grande Bretèche

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Honoré de Balzac


La Grande Bretèche is an addendum to Balzac's Another Study of Woman, and is the final of a set of stories told around a dinner table…

Everyday practices at the Russia - China - Mongolia border

In Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

Read by Caroline Humphrey


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Chapter XXII 1680-1683 La Salle Painted by Himself

In La Salle, Discovery of The Great West

Read by Theoden Humphrey


Francis Parkman, Jr.


Parkman has been hailed as one of America's first great historians and as a master of narrative history. Numerous translations have spread t…

The God Mountain of Puget Sound, Part 1

In In the Oregon Country

Read by Theoden Humphrey


George Palmer Putnam


This little book does not undertake to present a comprehensive account of our westernmost States, or even of the Oregon Country. It is inten…

The Californian's Tale by Mark Twain

In Love Stories Volume 3

Read by Theoden Humphrey


Mark Twain


Here are 20 more love stories under an hour each, covering all kinds of experiences involving romantic or other kinds of love resulting in h…

Galleys and Galley Slaves 16th Century

In The Story of the Barbary Corsairs (Version 2)

Read by Theoden Humphrey


Stanley Lane-Poole and J. D. Jerrold Kelley


The Barbary pirates, sometimes called Barbary corsairs or Ottoman corsairs, were Ottoman and Berber pirates and privateers who operated from…

In A Lady's Album - Read by TH

In In A Lady's Album

Read by Theoden Humphrey


Marcus Clarke


LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of In A Lady's Album by Marcus Clarke.This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 7, 2020. ---…

Preface

In The Jim Crow Car; Or, Denouncement of Injustice Meted Out to the Black Race

Read by Theoden Humphrey


John Clay Coleman


"My opposition to injustice, imposition, discrimination and prejudice, which have for many years existed against the colored people of …

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