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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)

Chapter 20

In Dracula

Read by Paul

Bram Stoker

The classic vampire story by Bram Stoker revolves around a struggle between good and evil, tradition and modernity, and lust versus chastity…

Childhood obesity: what are its future health and social consequences?

In Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminars

Read by Jennifer Baker

Various

University of Oxford Podcasts

To Mme de Grignan

In The Letters of Madame de Sévigné to Her Daughter and Friends

Read by Barbara Baker

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sévigné and Marie De Rabutin-Chantal

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné (5 February 1626 – 17 April 1696) was a French aristocrat famous for the precisi…

Preface, Part 7

In The Early Diary of Frances Burney, Vol. 1

Read by Barbara Baker

Frances Burney and Annie Raine Ellis

Vol. 1 of Diaries and letters of the young Fanny Burney. The diaries give a lively and accurate account of her experiences in the literary a…

Section 1

In Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay

Read by Barbara Baker

Thomas Babington Macaulay

An review essay of "Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay". The Edinburgh Review, January, 1843. Reprinted in vol. iii of Macaulay'…

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