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The Selden Map (Video)

In Oxford Research in the Humanities

Read by Kate Bennett


Various


The University of Oxford is home to an impressive range and depth of research activities in the Humanities. The Oxford Research Centre in th…

The Selden Map

In TORCH | The Oxford Research in the Humanities

Read by Kate Bennett, David Helliwell, Ros Ballaster, Rana Mitter and Ros Holmes


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Hall of Mirrors: Tales of Horror and the Grotesque Volume 1

Read by Mike Bennett


Mike Bennett


A second helping of podcast fiction from 'One Among the Sleepless' author, Mike Bennett. 'Hall of Mirrors' is a short story collection featu…

The Roswell Report: Case Closed

Read by Aaron Bennett


James Mcandrew


The “Roswell Incident” has assumed a central place in American folklore since the events of the 1940s in a remote area of New Mexico. In Jul…

The Hawaiian Archipelago

Read by Jane Bennett


Isabella L. Bird


Six months among the palm groves, coral reefs, and volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands. - Summary by Isabella Bird

The Final Campaign: Marines in the Victory on Okinawa

Read by Aaron Bennett


Joseph H. Alexander


The three-month-long battle of Okinawa covered a 700-mile arc fromFormosa to Kyushu and involved a million combatants--Americans,Japanese, B…

U.S. Marine Operations in Korea, 1950-1953, Volume 1: The Pusan Perimeter

Read by Aaron Bennett


Lynn Montross


It meant little to most Americans on 25 June 1950 to read in their Sunday newspapers that civil strife had broken out in Korea. They could h…

Princes and Poisoners: Studies of the Court of Louis XIV

Read by Jane Bennett


Frantz Funck-Brentano


The court of French King Louis XIV was not a safe place to be. It was filled with plots and intrigues, leaving observers and commentators wi…

Across the Reef: The Marine Assault of Tarawa

Read by Aaron Bennett


Joseph H. Alexander


"Tarawa Atoll is 2085 miles southwest of Pearl Harbor and 540 miles southeast of Kwajalein in the Marshalls. Betio is the principal isl…

Closing In: Marines in the Seizure of Iwo Jima

Read by Aaron Bennett


Joseph H. Alexander


Sunday, 4 March 1945, marked the end of the second week of the U.S. invasion of Iwo Jima. By this point the assault elements of the 3d, 4th,…

First Offensive: The Marine Campaign for Guadalcanal

Read by Aaron Bennett


Henry I. Shaw, Jr.


In the early summer of 1942, intelligence reports of the construction of a Japanese airfield near Lunga Point on Guadalcanal in the Solomon …

U.S. Marine Operations in Korea, 1950-1953, Volume 2: The Inchon-Seoul Operation

Read by Aaron Bennett


Nicholas Canzona and Lynn Montross


The Inchon Landing was a major amphibious operation, planned in record time and executed with skill and precision. Even more, it was an exem…

Final Report of the Select Committee to Investigate the January Sixth Attack on…

Read by Aaron Bennett


United States House of Representatives and United States House Of Representatives


This report will provide greater detail about the multi-step effort devised and driven by Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 election and blo…

U.S. Marine Operations In Korea 1950-1953, Volume 4: The East-Central Front

Read by Aaron Bennett


Lynn Montross, Norman W. Hicks and Hubard D. Kuokka


This is the fourth in a series of five volumes dealing with the operations of United States Marines in Korea during the period 2 August 1950…

U.S. Marine Operations in Korea, 1950-1953, Volume 3: The Chosin Reservoir Camp…

Read by Aaron Bennett


Lynn Montross


“Where do we go from here?” would hardly have been an oversimplified summary of the questions confronting UN leaders when it became apparent…

U.S. Marine Operations In Korea 1950-1953, Volume 5: Operations in West Korea

Read by Aaron Bennett


Patricia Meid and James M. Yingling


In March 1952 the 1st Marine Division redeployed from the East-Central front to West Korea. This new sector, nearly 35 miles in length, anch…

A Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island

Read by Aaron Bennett


Robert James Cressman and Robert J. Cressman


It is Monday, 8 December 1941. On Wake Island, a tiny sprung paper-clip in the Pacific between Hawaii and Guam, Marines of the 1st Defense B…

Up The Slot: Marines in the Central Solomons

Read by Aaron Bennett


Charles D. Melson


In December that year (1942), patrol flights taking off from Henderson Field on Guadalcanal and from the decks of U.S. fleet carriers in the…

The Ghost Girl

Read by Kate Follis


Henry Kitchell Webster


Henry Kitchell Webster is an American author best know for his detective novels. The Ghost Girl opens with a murder mystery. A young woman's…

The Whispering Man

Read by Kate Follis


Henry Kitchell Webster


New friends Drew and Jeffrey are drawn into the investigation of the mysterious death of Dr. Marshall. Romance and intrigue abound and you'l…

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