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Reminiscences and Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers - Banker, Poet and Patron of the …

Read by Barbara Baker


Samuel Rogers


Samuel Rogers was a renowned conversationalist who associated with the most distinguished persons of his time. This volume contains fascinat…

Short Account of the History of Mathematics

Read by Paul E J King


W. W. Rouse Ball


This is a history of mathematics from antiquity to the turn of the 20th century. (Summary by Paul King)

Ancient Egypt

Read by Richard Parkinson and Barbara Ewing


Richard Parkinson and Barbara Ewing


University of Oxford Podcasts

Well Done

In The Negro Laborer: A Word to Him

Read by Barbara


William H. Councill


William H. Councill, former slave and contemporary of Booker T. Washington was founder of Huntsville Normal School, now Alabama Agricultural…

Chapter 15 - Part 2

In Lay Down Your Arms: The Autobiography of Martha von Tilling

Read by Barbara


Bertha Von Suttner


Die Waffen Nieder, in English: Lay Down Your Arms is a fictional biography, which describes four wars from the perspective of a soldier's wi…

Stem cells: what are they and why are they important

In Department for Continuing Education's guest lectures

Read by Richard Gardner


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Pen and the Inkstand

In Children's Short Works, Vol. 012

Read by Cheri Gardner


Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) and Hans Christian Andersen


Librivox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 012: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

17 - A Christmas Present

In A Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter

Read by Cheri Gardner


Alice Turner Curtis


Sylvia Fulton is a ten-years-old girl from Boston who stayed in Charleston, South Carolina, before the opening of the Civil War. She loves h…

Intimation

In Song-Surf

Read by Christina Gardner


Cale Young Rice


This is the third volume of poetry written by Kentucky poet Cale Young Rice, published in 1900. The volume contains several poems written du…

0 - Preface

In The Log-Cabin Lady

Read by Cheri Gardner


Unknown


'The story of The Log-Cabin Lady is one of the annals of America. It is a moving record of the conquest of self-consciousness and fear throu…

Christ Paying the Tribute Money (17:27)

In Matthew, from Horae Homileticae

Read by Keith Gardner


Charles Simeon


Simeon's Works, as they were published 1832, fill twenty-one large octavo volumes, and the title-page reads, 'Horae Homileticae or Discourse…

QUEER FEET AND A QUEERER BILL: The Ruffed Grouse and the Crossbills.

In The Burgess Bird Book for Children

Read by Jamie Gardner


Thornton W. Burgess


The Burgess Bird Book for Children is a zoology book written in the form of a story featuring Peter Rabbit. Peter learns from his friend Je…

A Fable

In Welsh Fairy Tales and Other Stories

Read by Cheri Gardner


P.H. Emerson and P. H. Emerson


A collection of Welsh Fairy tales. These tales were collected by me whilst living in Anglesea during the winter 1891-2. With the exception …

The Home of the Passion Play - Oberammergau

In Birdseye Views of Far Lands

Read by Cheri Gardner


James T. Nichols


Birdseye Views of Far Lands is an interesting, wholesome presentation of something that a keen-eyed, alert traveler with the faculty of maki…

06- The Construction and Care of Hotbeds, Cold frames, and Pits-part 1

In The Vegetable Garden: A Manual for the Amateur Vegetable Gardener

Read by Cheri Gardner


Ida Dandridge Bennett


This book is a good reference on vegetable gardening. It covers the economic value of a vegetable garden, planning and locating the garden, …

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