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09 - Little paupers

In In a North Country Village

Read by Phil Benson

M. E. Francis

M. E. Francis was born Mary E. Sweetman in Dublin and moved to Lancashire on her marriage to Francis Nicholas Blundell, of the Blundell fami…

The Bus Conductor

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 012

Read by Phil Benson

The Bus Conductor and E. F. Benson

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

05 - The story of Peterloo

In The Story of Peterloo

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Francis Archibald Bruton

On 16th August 1819 around 60,000 people gathered at St. Peter’s Fields, Manchester, to rally for parliamentary reform. Shortly after the me…

09 - The Committee for Salvation

In Ten Days that Shook the World

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John Reed

Ten Days that Shook the World (1919) is a book by American journalist and socialist John Reed about the October Revolution in Russia in 1917…

The Hunting of the Snark, an Agony in Eight Fits

In LibriVox 8th Anniversary Collection

Read by Phil Benson

Lewis Carroll

For the past few years we have celebrated the anniversary of LibriVox with a collection loosely themed on the number of the anniversary year…

Early history and origin of the bicycle

In The Cycle Industry, its origin, history and latest developments

Read by Phil Benson

Walter Ferdinando Grew

From the velocipede to the motor cycle in twenty chapters. A short history of the British bicycle industry from its origins in a Coventry se…

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