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What shapes migrant destitution and what can be done about it?

In Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

Read by Sue Lukes and John Perry


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University of Oxford Podcasts

Oriel College

Read by John Stevenson and Moira Wallace


John Stevenson and Moira Wallace


University of Oxford Podcasts

Geronimo’s Story of His Life

Read by Sue Anderson


Geronimo


Geronimo’s Story of His Life is the oral life history of a legendary Apache warrior. Composed in 1905, while Geronimo was being held as a U.…

The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865

Read by Sue Anderson


Leander Stillwell


Leander Stillwell was an 18-year-old Illinois farm boy, living with his family in a log cabin, when the U.S. Civil War broke out. Stillwell …

By Ox Team to California - A Narrative of Crossing the Plains in 1860

Read by Sue Anderson


Lavinia Honeyman Porter


Imagine a young, twenty-something woman in 1860, reared “in the indolent life of the ordinary Southern girl” (which means she has never lear…

Living on Half a Dime a Day

Read by Sue Anderson


Sarah Elizabeth Harper Monmouth


How to live on 5 cents a day! How to survive financial ruin without losing your house! How to keep to a bare bones budget and still have mon…

Gallipoli Diary

Read by Sue Anderson


John Graham Gillam


Major John Graham Gillam, British Supply Officer, wrote in his World War I Gallipoli Diary that when he sailed from England for the Dardanel…

The Story of My Boyhood and Youth

Read by Sue Anderson


John Muir


"The only fire for the whole house was the kitchen stove, with a fire box about eighteen inches long and eight inches wide and deep,- s…

The Journal of Submarine Commander Von Forstner

Read by Sue Anderson


George-Günther Von Forstner


The Journal of Submarine Commander Von Forstner is a graphic account of WWI submarine warfare. Forstner was the commander of German U-boat U…

The Journey of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

Read by Sue Anderson


Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca


Few stories of shipwreck and survival can equal that of the 16th century Spaniard Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca who, cast ashore …

Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, Vol. 1

Read by Sue Anderson


John Lloyd Stephens


The year is 1838. The scene is the dense Honduran forest along the Copán River. Two men, John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood…

A Gold Hunter's Experience

Read by Sue Anderson


Chalkley J. Hambleton


"Early in the summer of 1860, I had an attack of gold fever. In Chicago, the conditions for such a malady were all favorable. Since t…

Letters of Mrs. Adams, the Wife of John Adams, Vol. 1

Read by Sue Anderson


Abigail Adams


Abigail Adams lived the American Revolution as the wife of one of its central figures--John Adams. Her family correspondence, published alon…

The Journey of Coronado

Read by Sue Anderson


Pedro De Castañeda


In 1540, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado led an army from Mexico is search of the fabled golden cities of Cíbola. The Spaniards …

Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888

Read by Sue Anderson


Frances M. A. Roe


"There appeared from the bushes in front of me, and right in the path, two immense gray wolves . . . Rollo saw them and stopped instan…

Recollections of Life in Ohio, from 1813-1840

Read by Sue Anderson


William Cooper Howells


Recollections of Life in Ohio is the autobiography of William Cooper Howells (1807-1894), father of the American novelist William Dean Howel…

Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865

Read by Sue Anderson


Sarah Raymond Herndon


“We had spent almost all our money for toll, ferrying and other expenses on the road. It might be a serious matter to be in a strange place…

Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatán, Vol. 2

Read by Sue Anderson


John Lloyd Stephens


The year is 1838. The scene is the dense Honduran forest along the Copán River. Two men, John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood…

The Gold Hunters (Borthwick)

Read by Sue Anderson


John David Borthwick


This is a robust, rough and tumble, first-hand account of the early California gold rush years 1851-1854 by a Scottish adventurer and artist…

Boots and Saddles

Read by Sue Anderson


Elizabeth Bacon Custer


Elizabeth Custer has penned an engaging portrait of 1870’s life on a U.S. cavalry post in the Dakotas, just before her husband and his troop…

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