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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…

Disruption in Continuity: The Use of Ornament in The Rite of Spring

In Revisiting the Rite: The Rite of Spring Centenary Conference

Read by Alexander Schwan


Various


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Turbulence: Plasma Unleashed

In Oxford Physics Alumni

Read by Alexander Schekochihin


Various


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Religious dogma versus scientific progress: Enlightenment issues in 18th c. Russ…

In Was there a Russian Enlightenment?

Read by Alexander Iosad


Various


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OxPeace 2013: Peacebuilding and the 'unmanned' military drones Session 1A: Count…

In Building Peace

Read by Alexander Leveringhaus


Various


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Survival migration: failed governance and the crisis of displacement

In Refugee Studies Centre

Read by Alexander Betts


Various


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MedicineAfrica

In Global Health

Read by Alexander Finlayson


Various


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Panel 4: Old State, New Rules: Praetorian Parliamentarism: The Contradictions of…

In The Egyptian Revolution, One Year On

Read by Alexander Kazamias


Various


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Survival Migration: Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement

In Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

Read by Alexander Betts


Various


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Prologue: Archeology of a Murder

In Theft of the Master

Read by Edwin Alexander


Edwin Alexander


Theft of the Master has been described as the Boys from Brazil meets The Da Vinci Code —Kirkus Private Investigator Al Hershey takes the rea…

Turbulence: Plasma Unleashed

In Theoretical Physics - From Outer Space to Plasma

Read by Alexander Schekochihin


Various


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