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Reminiscences and Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers - Banker, Poet and Patron of the …

Read by Barbara Baker


Samuel Rogers


Samuel Rogers was a renowned conversationalist who associated with the most distinguished persons of his time. This volume contains fascinat…

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)

Ancient Egypt

Read by Richard Parkinson and Barbara Ewing


Richard Parkinson and Barbara Ewing


University of Oxford Podcasts

Well Done

In The Negro Laborer: A Word to Him

Read by Barbara


William H. Councill


William H. Councill, former slave and contemporary of Booker T. Washington was founder of Huntsville Normal School, now Alabama Agricultural…

Chapter 15 - Part 2

In Lay Down Your Arms: The Autobiography of Martha von Tilling

Read by Barbara


Bertha Von Suttner


Die Waffen Nieder, in English: Lay Down Your Arms is a fictional biography, which describes four wars from the perspective of a soldier's wi…

Stem cells: what are they and why are they important

In Department for Continuing Education's guest lectures

Read by Richard Gardner


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

087 - Little Stories of Famous Animals: How a Spider Saved Scotland

In The Jumble Book

Read by Cheri Gardner


David Cory


This is a lovely collection of short stories and poems some well known others not so well known. Something to appeal to everyone. (Summary b…

Chapter 1

In Little Sister Snow

Read by Cheri Gardner


Frances Little


American author Fannie Caldwell, under pen name of Frances Little, tells the story of young Yuki San growing up in Japan circa early 1900s, …

Book II - Chapter 1

In Cyropaedia: The Education of Cyrus

Read by Peter Gardner


Xenophon


The Cyropaedia (or Cyropedia) is a partly fictional biography of Cyrus the Great, written in the early 4th century BC by the Athenian gentle…

The Pen and the Inkstand

In Children's Short Works, Vol. 012

Read by Cheri Gardner


Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) and Hans Christian Andersen


Librivox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 012: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

09 - OL\' WILL ROGERS

In Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work

Read by Cheri Gardner


L. Frank Baum


The novel carries forward the continuing story of the three cousins Louise Merrick, Beth De Graf, and Patsy Doyle, and their circle. The tit…

Part II, Ch. 4: Gulliver is Carried Off by a Monkey

In Gulliver's Travels in Lilliput and Brobdingnag, Told to the Children

Read by Cheri Gardner


John Lang and Jonathan Swift


This is a children's version of Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels, from the Told to the Children Series (published in 1910). The chi…

A Fable

In Welsh Fairy Tales and Other Stories

Read by Cheri Gardner


P.H. Emerson and P. H. Emerson


A collection of Welsh Fairy tales. These tales were collected by me whilst living in Anglesea during the winter 1891-2. With the exception …

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