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Reminiscences Of A Workhouse Medical Officer

Read by David Wales


Joseph Rogers


Joseph Rogers (1821-1889) was an English physician, medical officer, and health care reformer in London. The system of poor-law dispensarie…

Two American Slavery Documents

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James Mars


This recording contains two original documents. 1) Life of James Mars, a Slave Born and Sold in Connecticut, by James Mars (1869). James …

Vindication Of The Rights Of Men, In A Letter To The Right Honourable Edmund Bu…

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Mary Wollstonecraft


Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) attacks aristocracy and advocates republicanism. It was published in response to …

Around The Yule Log

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Willis Boyd Allen


Eleven yule-tide stories by a popular writer of the late 19th – early 20th centuries. - (Summary by david wales)

The Causes Of The American Civil War

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John Lothrop Motley


John Lothrop Motley (1814 – 1877) was an American author and popular diplomat, who helped to prevent European intervention on the side of th…

Bransford Of Rainbow Range

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Eugene Manlove Rhodes


A genuine cowboy who speaks a bit of Greek? Ditto a bit of The Litany? And more than a little verse, including (would you believe?) Alice In…

Against Celsus Book 2

Read by David Ronald


Origen Of Alexandria


Against Celsus, preserved entirely in Greek, is a major apologetics work by the Church Father Origen of Alexandria, written in around 248 AD…

Cecilia de Noël

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Mary Elizabeth Hawker


Cecilia de Noël is an original and cleverly told ghost story, published in 1891. The story is told, Rashomon-like, from six different v…

The Human Boy Again

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Eden Phillpotts


Published in 1908, this is a further collection of twelve humorous short stories about English school boys. The author wrote two other book…

The Backwash Of War: The Human Wreckage Of The Battlefield As Witnessed By An A…

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Ellen Newbold La Motte


Ellen Newbold La Motte (1873–1961) was an American nurse, journalist and author. … and in 1915 volunteered as one of the first American war …

A Christmas Miscellany

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Various


A selection of eight short works, chapters, or poems about Christmas. - Summary by david wales

An Apache Campaign In The Sierra Madre

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John Gregory Bourke


An account of the expedition [of the U.S. Army] in pursuit of the hostile Chiricahua Apaches in the spring of 1883. (Book subtitle) Bourke w…

Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World

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David Coleman


University of Oxford Podcasts

A Picture Book Of Merry Tales

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Anonymous


Forty European folk tales. Caveats: 1. Some of these stories are not suitable for young children. 2. In two stories (10 and 25) appear the n…

Resurrecting Randi

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David Shepherd


When college professor Travis Harrison meets the copper-headed seductress, Layla Sommers, the two are drawn together with a fierce attractio…

Phillips Brooks

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Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe


Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893) was one of the finest and most famous clergyman in the nineteenth century; he was acknowledged as a masterful …

Travel Stories Retold From St. Nicholas

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Various


St. Nicholas was a popular magazine aimed at young folks in the late nineteenth – early twentieth century. Its articles were usually well-w…

Pope Adrian IV; An Historical Sketch

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Richard Raby


Pope Adrian IV (c. 1100-1159, pope 1154-1159) was the only English pope. Written by a Catholic in 1849, this biography of the pope appeare…

Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi

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William C. Everhart


In the American Civil War, the Vicksburg campaign (December 1862-July 1863) was a pivotal victory for the Union under the generalship of Uly…

Recollections of Oscar Wilde

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Franz Blei


This 1906 collection of memories of Oscar Wilde is by friends. Wilde said that his genius was his life; only his talent was in his works. (S…

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