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Yorkshire Battles

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Edward Lamplough


Edward Lamplough describes 22 battles that all occurred in Yorkshire over many time periods and political contexts. - Summary by lightcryst…

A Railway Accident?

In Secret Service; or, Recollections of a City Detective

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Andrew Forrester


This book of fiction from 1864, as you can guess from the title, presents a series of accounts of different cases that the “City Detective” …

Summer Dawn - Read by LC

In Summer Dawn

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William Morris


LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of "Summer Dawn" by William Morris.This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 10, 202…

Chapter I

In A Drop in Infinity

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Gerald Grogan


This 1915 sci-fi book is possibly the first work to use in its plot what we would now call a parallel universe. Jack Thorpe and Marjorie Mat…

Common Sense in Chess (extract)

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 103

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Emanuel Lasker


"When money gives out, sense ensues." This pithy saying is from Yugoslav Proverbs, one of the twenty reader-chosen selections in v…

Impossibility of Witchcraft (1712)

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 102

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Unknown


"It is difficult for the human mind to take a comprehensive view of a subject." This is how librarian Arthur Bostwick begins his e…

A Trace of the Girl

In The Outdoor Girls in a Motor Car

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Laura Lee Hope


In "The Outdoor Girls in a Motor Car, Or The Haunted Mansion of Shadow Valley", one of the girls has learned to run a big motor ca…

Part 2 - The Doctrine Behind the Veil

In The Illustrated Key to the Tarot

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L. W. De Laurence


L.W. de Laurence, an occult and spiritual author and publisher, not only provides a history of the Tarot for fortune-telling purposes, but w…

Observations on the Use of Mercury in Treating Venereal Disease, 1772 (excerpt)

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 092

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Andrew Duncan


Calling men the "Bawling Brotherhood," Sarah Grand penned a lively essay on The New Aspect of the Woman Question in 1894. Stenogra…

Anglesey

In H.M.I.: Some Passages in the Life of One of H.M. Inspectors of Schools

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Edmund Mackenzie Sneyd-Kinnersley


Sneyd-Kinnersley was an Inspector of Schools in a period when regulations were rapidly changing and access to free public education was expa…

Chapter 2: The Earliest Smugglers, from "King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855"

In LibriVox 17th Anniversary Collection

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Edward Keble Chatterton


"LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to bring books in the public domain to li…