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Frederic the Great

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Thomas Babington Macaulay


Macaulay's review essay on Frederick the Great of Prussia is found in vol. iii of his Critical and Historical Essays, and concentrates prima…

Coningsby, or The New Generation

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Benjamin Disraeli


Coningsby is the first of trilogy of political novels that Disraeli published in the 1840s, and gives an insight into his views of the polit…

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…

Alternative Utopias and the Crisis of Imagination (20 June 2013)

In Anthropology

Read by Alexander Kiossev


Various


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FMR 45 The global governance of crisis migration

In Forced Migration Review

Read by Alexander Betts


Various


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Turbulence: Plasma Unleashed

In Theoretical Physics - From Outer Space to Plasma

Read by Alexander Schekochihin


Various


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OxPeace 2013: Peacebuilding and the 'unmanned' military drones Session 1A: Count…

In Building Peace

Read by Alexander Leveringhaus


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Panel 4: Old State, New Rules: Praetorian Parliamentarism: The Contradictions of…

In The Egyptian Revolution, One Year On

Read by Alexander Kazamias


Various


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Survival Migration: Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement

In Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

Read by Alexander Betts


Various


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MedicineAfrica

In Global Health

Read by Alexander Finlayson


Various


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Limitations of Power

In Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies

Read by Alexander Bird


Various


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Survival migration: failed governance and the crisis of displacement

In Refugee Studies Centre

Read by Alexander Betts


Various


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Religious dogma versus scientific progress: Enlightenment issues in 18th c. Russ…

In Was there a Russian Enlightenment?

Read by Alexander Iosad


Various


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MedicineAfrica

In Translational Medicine

Read by Alexander Finlayson


Various


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The Irish Soldier in India, 1857-1922: The Formation and Negotiation of Stereoty…

In History Faculty

Read by Alexander Bubb


Various


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Telescopes Now Lecture 1: The William Herschel and the Hubble telescopes

In Museum of the History of Science

Read by Alexander Boksenberg


Various


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