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How do Institutions Change? The Prospects for Law and Justice Priorities in the …

In Foundation for Law, Justice and Society

Read by Michael Woolcock, Masooda Bano and Samuel Clark


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Ballad of Iron Percy

Read by Edward Clark


Edward Clark


It has been twenty years since the island nation of Great Hale conquered the New World and became an empire. Lord Percival Wilmore, the Hero…

Selections from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War

Read by Clark University


Herman Melville


Published in 1866, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War is a collection of poems about the Civil War by Herman Melville. Many of the poems a…

The Call of the Wild (Version 5)

Read by Jeff Clark


Jack London


Buck, a magnificent mix of St. Bernard and Scotch shepherd dog, rules contentedly at Judge Miller’s place in California’s Santa Clara Valley…

The Art, the (Social) Science and the Politics of Building State Capability for …

In Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative

Read by Michael Woolcock


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Implant

Read by Michael Wallace and Jefferey Anderson


Michael Wallace and Jefferey Anderson


Neurosurgeon Julia Nolan places cortical implants into the brains of field operatives to record data from their auditory and visual cortices…

The Zaharoff Lecture

Read by Dominique Rabaté and Michael Sheringham


Dominique Rabaté and Michael Sheringham


University of Oxford Podcasts

The War of the Worlds (Version 3)

Read by Cori Samuel


H. G. Wells


No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that the Earth was being scrutinised and studied from across the gu…

The Scarlet Letter (version 2)

Read by Cori Samuel


Nathaniel Hawthorne


This book tells the story of Hester Prynne, a young woman who conceives a child while her husband is missing at sea. The Puritan Elders of …

Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus (1818)

Read by Cori Samuel


Mary Shelley


Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley. Shelley wrote the novel when she was 18 years…

Love and Freindship

Read by Cori Samuel


Jane Austen


Love and Freindship [sic] is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790, when Austen was 14 years old. Love and Freindship (the misspelling…

Black Beauty (version 2)

Read by Cori Samuel


Anna Sewell


Black Beauty is a fictional autobiographical memoir told by a horse, who recounts many tales, both of cruelty and kindness. The title page o…

Aunt Crete's Emancipation

Read by Cori Samuel


Grace Livingston Hill


Aunt Lucretia — 'Crete' to her family — is a sweet, patient older woman, who lives with her narrow-minded sister and spoilt niece, acting as…

The Water-Babies

Read by Cori Samuel


Charles Kingsley


The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley, first published in its entirety in 1863. Though…

The Wood Beyond the World

Read by Cori Samuel


William Morris


The Wood beyond the World is a fantasy novel by William Morris, perhaps the first modern fantasy writer to unite an imaginary world with the…

Nine Unlikely Tales

Read by Cori Samuel


E. Nesbit


Nine original and, yes, unlikely fairy-tales, which include stories of the arithmetic fairy, the king who became a charming villa-residence …

Notes on Nursing

Read by Cori Samuel


Florence Nightingale


Notes on Nursing was published in 1859 and is a fascinating view into the theories underpinning the early development of modern nursing and …

My School Days

Read by Cori Samuel


E. Nesbit


A short memoir about the author's school days, serialised in The Girl's Own Paper from October 1896 to September 1897. It includes stories a…

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