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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…

The discovery and settlement of Canada part 1

In Canadian Scenery, Volume 1

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Nathaniel Parker Willis


An historical account of the settlement of Upper and Lower Canada, with notes about the indigenous inhabitants of those areas of Eastern Can…

The Ghosts of Craig-Aulnaic

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 058

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Anonymous


A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up yo…

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…

The Wind - Read by LC

In The Wind

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Henry Bellamann


LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Wind by Henry Bellamann.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 14, 2024. --…

Life in Other Worlds

In Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies

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David Todd


The progress of astronomy from age to age has been far from uniform—rather by leaps and bounds: from the earliest epoch when man's planet ea…

A Rhyme about an Electrical Advertising Sign - Read by LC

In A Rhyme about an Electrical Advertising Sign

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Vachel Lindsay


LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of A Rhyme about an Electrical Advertising Sign by Vachel Lindsay.This was the Weekly Poetry pro…

A Holiday in Bed

In Coffee Break Collection 034 - Vacations

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J. M. Barrie


This is the 34th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read Public Domain stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction p…

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…

On the Latvian Border

In The Bolshevik Myth

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Alexander Berkman


The Bolshevik Myth (Diary 1920–1922) is a book by Alexander Berkman who with his partner Emma Goldman was deported from the USA under the 19…

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…

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In Broken Barriers

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Meredith Nicholson


Life abruptly changes for young socialite, Grace Durland., when her father goes bankrupt and she is forced to earn a living. Thrust into a n…

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” …

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…

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…

A Legend of the Water-Spirit Called Neckan

In Short Poetry Collection 254

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Margaret Dixon McDougall


This is a collection of 50 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers during July 2024.

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…