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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…

Would you blog the truth?

In Engage: Social Media Talks

Read by Peter Gill


Various


Lunchtime talks delivered during the social media term at Oxford University covering a wide variety of social media topics.

Marcus Aurelius' Meditations - Is there a Core Project?

In Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies

Read by Christopher GIll


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Dickens' Railways

In The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)

Read by Stephen Gill


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Little Maid

In Very Short Stories And Verses For Children

Read by Sue Gill


Lucy Clifford


Very Short Stories And Verses For Children is a children's book by Lucy Clifford compiling stories and poems informing the little ones about…

Bed in Summer

In A Child's Garden of Verses (Version 3)

Read by Sue Gill


Robert Louis Stevenson


A Child's Garden Of Verses is a collection of poems for children written by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The poems mainly concern…

The Message of a Mocking-bird

In Our Feathered Friends

Read by Sue Gill


Elizabeth Grinnell


This volume displays the romance of birds in beautiful prose and dialog in simple language for children and adults alike. Written by a moth…

Foreign Lands - Read by SLG

In Foreign Lands (version 2)

Read by Sue Gill


Robert Louis Stevenson


LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of Foreign Lands by Robert Louis Stevenson.This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 4, 2021.…

Nibble Rabbit’s Storm Party

In Mostly About Nibble the Bunny

Read by Sue Gill


John Breck


Follow, “A Very Small Bunny Has a Very Big Adventure” as Nibble Rabbit romps through the clover patch and into the woods where he founds the…

How Spring Came

In Lake Lyrics and Other Poems

Read by Ben Gill


William Wilfred Campbell


A Collection of poems by the Canadian poet William Wilfred Campbell most of which describe the natural beauty of the Great Lakes region of O…

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