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Modern England 1820-1885

Read by Pamela Nagami


Oscar Browning


This short survey opens with the accession of that portly spendthrift, King George IV. With British support, Greece becomes independent. The…

Rise of the Macedonian Empire

Read by Pamela Nagami


Arthur M. Curteis


Through diplomacy and conquest the Kingdom of Macedonia under Philip II (382-336 BC) came to dominate ancient Greece. To the classical Greek…

The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648

Read by Pamela Nagami


Samuel Rawson Gardiner


Samuel Rawson Gardiner remains a respected source on the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), which began as a civil conflict between Protestant p…

The Renaissance and the Reformation: A Textbook of European History 1494-1610

Read by Pamela Nagami


Emmeline Tanner


Dame Emmeline Tanner writes of the Renaissance that its "special characteristic was the revolt against authority and the rise to import…

Charles James Fox

Read by Pamela Nagami


Henry Offley Wakeman


Charles James Fox (1749-1806) was a prominent British Whig member of Parliament and the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger. A staunch op…

Cavour

Read by Pamela Nagami


Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco


Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (1810-1861) was an Italian statesman and a leading figure in the movement for Italian unification. A nobleman…

Lives of Greek Statesmen

Read by Pamela Nagami


George William Cox


In the darkest days of the Persian War when the armies of Xerxes were overrunning northern Greece, Athens faced destruction. The desperate A…

A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome, Volume III

Read by Pamela Nagami


Mandell Creighton


Volume III of this History of the Papacy opens with the Council of Basel in revolt against Pope Eugenius IV, who doggedly defends papal auto…

Hobbes

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Leslie Stephen


Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) famously wrote that in the state of nature "the life of man" was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, a…

The French Revolution in a Global Perspective

In Humanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge

Read by Lynn Hunt


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

A Century of Rites : The Making of an Avant - Garde Tradition

In Revisiting the Rite: The Rite of Spring Centenary Conference

Read by Lynn Garafola


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Book 2, Chapter 7

In Hard Times

Read by Debra Lynn


Charles Dickens


Hard Times, the shortest of Dickens's full-length novels, is set in the fictitious Victorian-England city of Coketown, where facts are the r…

A Narrow Escape

In Tom Swift and His Motorcycle

Read by Gracie Lynn


Victor Appleton


This is the very first Tom Swift adventure. Tom Swift has a newly purchased motorcycle, which he is modifying with his own inventions. He vo…

A Serenade - Read by CLA

In A Serenade

Read by Lynn Allen


Thomas Hood


LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of A Serenade, by Thomas Hood.This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 19, 2024. ------The…

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