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A Mathematician's Holiday

Read by Thomas Woolley and William Binzi


Thomas Woolley and William Binzi


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Reading: An Essay

Read by David Wales


Hugh Walpole


A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales

The Lancashire Witches

Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)


William Harrison Ainsworth


The Lancashire Witches is a highly fictionalised account of the activities of the notorious witches Demdike, Chattox and Alice Nutter who, t…

Quilt, Book and Bard

Read by Bryna Chalmer


Bryna Chalmer


For years the picture of the man with the oxcart has hung on the wall of her Aunt and Uncle's house. It never occurred to Tory that one day …

The Story of London

Read by Paul Lawley-Jones


Henry B. Wheatley


A non-exhaustive history of London from the earliest settlement up to early modern times, focusing on the daily lives of its citizens, the a…

The Manchester Man

Read by Phil Benson


Isabella Varley Banks


Jabez Clegg, the Manchester man, floats into this historical novel in 1799, carried downstream by the River Irk in flood. Jabez's rise to co…

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…

The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 5, Chapter 24)

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Thomas Babington Macaulay


This is volume 5 chapter 24 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay (1800-1859). Volume 5 was published after his death.Chapter 2…

Modern Essays

Read by David Wales


Christopher Morley


Thirty three essays by more or less well-known authors of Britain, the United States, and Canada, each fronted by an introductory paragraph.…

Days With Sir Roger de Coverley

Read by Elijah Fisher


Joseph Addison


The author Sir Richard Steele, who was one of the writers for The Spectator, gets the opportunity to spend a month in Sir Roger de Coverley'…

The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 5, Chapter 25)

Read by Brendan Stallard


Thomas Babington Macaulay


This is volume 5, chapter 25 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay (1800-1859) and published after his death.To quote from the …

English Literature: Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the Englis…

Read by Tony Oliva


William J. Long


This book, which presents the whole splendid history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the close of the Victorian Era, has thr…

Lancashire Characters and Places

Read by Phil Benson


Thomas Newbigging


An eclectic collection of essays on late 19th-century Lancashire culture and life, including essays on the poets John Critchley Prince and E…

Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (Version 2)

Read by Tony Foster


Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


"Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life" was Mrs Gaskell's first full-length novel. It was published anonymously in that tumultuou…

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 …

London Labour and the London Poor Volume I

Read by Peter Yearsley


Henry Mayhew


Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.&…

Emma (version 5)

Read by Moira Fogarty


Jane Austen


A cautionary tale about the evils of interference, matchmaking and good intentions turned awry, Emma is the study of a young woman raised wi…

The History of Britain

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


John Milton


A reader of this history, encountering the frequent references to “my author,” meaning the current source, will be reminded of DON QUIXOTE a…

Harry Heathcote of Gangoil

Read by Simon Evers


Anthony Trollope


Harry Heathcote is an English ‘squatter’ who runs a huge sheep station at Gangoil in Queensland, Australia. His wife Mary and her older sist…

Mary Barton

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


Mary Barton is the first novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, published in 1848. The story is set in the English city of Manchester du…

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