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The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Volume II
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Horatio Nelson
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronté, KB (29 September 1758 – 21 October 1805) was an English flag officer famous …
Stories of North Pole Adventure
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Frank Mundell
This volume does not pretend to be a history of Artic exploration. My aim has been to narrate some of the most thrilling incidents of Polar …
1946 Radio News
WA4CZD
News from 1946. I usually share these via torrent but I don't think all these files are available on archive.org so here's a 1946 news file …
The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt
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David Miller DeWitt
April, 1865 -- The war ended and throughout the Northern States joy and relief reigned. Then, less than a week later, a thunderbolt: the p…
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 4, Chapter 20)
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
This is volume 4 chapter 20 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay (1800-1859) in the 19th century. It starts with a brief resum…
A Book of American Explorers
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson
This book tells the story of exploration in America in the words of the explorers themselves. It consists of extracts from narratives of the…
Native Races and the War
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Josephine Butler
Josephine Elizabeth Butler was a Victorian era British feminist who was strongly committed to liberal reforms. As a result of her efforts, i…
Child-life in Art
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Estelle M. Hurll
The poetry of childhood is full of attractiveness to the artist, and many and varied are the forms in which he interprets it. The Christ-chi…
The Glories of Ireland
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Joseph Dunn
A collection of essays on Ireland compiled by Joseph Dunn and PJ Lennox. As stated in the Preface to the books "...we have been forced…
Columbus
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Joaquin Miller
This week, to celebrate Columbus Day, LibriVox volunteers bring you six recordings of Columbus by Joaquin Miller. This was the weekly poetr…
Lancashire
Read by Phil Benson
Francis Archibald Bruton
The county of Lancashire in the north-west of England is best known as the engine room of the nineteenth-century Industrial Revolution. Stee…
Sleeping Sickness
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Fleming Mant Sandwith
In the twenty-first century sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis in humans) is still a life-threatening disease of adults and children…
England, Canada and the Great War
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Louis-Georges Desjardins
Mr. Desjardins was driven to write this work to refute statements uttered by the nationalist Henri Bourassa, which the former feared painted…
Tea Drinking In 18th-Century America: Its Etiquette And Equipage
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Rodris Roth
The title of this 1961 Smithsonian Institution bulletin says it all. “In 18th-century America, the pleasant practice of taking tea at home …
WWII News and Related Sound files from 1933
Various
Old Time Radio Programs. WWII News and Related Sound files from 1933
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02
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Charles F. Horne
A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narrati…
The Haunted Homes and Family Traditions of Great Britain
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John Henry Ingram
Possibly no part in the world is more connected in our minds to hauntings, ghost sightings and gruesome legends than Great Britain with its …
United Kingdom House of Lords Speeches Collection
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Various
This collection comprises recordings of seven historic speeches given to the UK House of Lords between 1641 and 1945. Readings are of speech…