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The Birthplace

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


Neither the name of Shakespeare nor that of Stratford appears directly in this short piece by James, and yet both are absolutely central to …

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…

Study Skills

Read by Sally LePage, Liz Timoney White, Inés Dawson and Luke Ogilvie-Thomson


Sally LePage, Liz Timoney White, Inés Dawson and Luke Ogilvie-Thomson


University of Oxford Podcasts

Introduction to Academic Blogging: Political Analysis in the Digital Age

In Academic Blogging: Political Analysis in the Digital Age

Read by Stuart White


Various


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The Gearheart 32

In The Gearheart

Read by Alex White


Alex White


Jonathan Andrews, Initiate in the Seekers of the Arcane Unknown, joined the society two years ago with the hopes of protecting the secrets o…

Chapter 2: The High Priestess

In The Spirit Of Education

Read by Jeff White


Jeff White


What is education? It's a term we use every day to describe the process of putting 25 or 30 young souls into a cinder block room and fillin…

Updating on Evil

In Religious Epistemology, Contextualism, and Pragmatic Encroachment

Read by Roger White


Various


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Artemisinin therapy for malaria

In NDM International Activities

Read by Nick White


Various


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Data Protection, Freedom of Expression and the Media

In Centre for Socio-Legal Studies

Read by Antony White


Various


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The Visitors and Residents Principle: A guide to assessing motivations towards t…

In Research within the Department for Continuing Education

Read by David White


Various


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