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A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome, Volume II

Read by Pamela Nagami


Mandell Creighton


Mandell Creighton's history of the Papacy continues in Volume II with the condemnation in 1415 of Jan Hus by the Council of Constance and hi…

Rise of the Macedonian Empire

Read by Pamela Nagami


Arthur M. Curteis


Through diplomacy and conquest the Kingdom of Macedonia under Philip II (382-336 BC) came to dominate ancient Greece. To the classical Greek…

Charles James Fox

Read by Pamela Nagami


Henry Offley Wakeman


Charles James Fox (1749-1806) was a prominent British Whig member of Parliament and the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger. A staunch op…

The Renaissance and the Reformation: A Textbook of European History 1494-1610

Read by Pamela Nagami


Emmeline Tanner


Dame Emmeline Tanner writes of the Renaissance that its "special characteristic was the revolt against authority and the rise to import…

Cavour

Read by Pamela Nagami


Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco


Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (1810-1861) was an Italian statesman and a leading figure in the movement for Italian unification. A nobleman…

The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648

Read by Pamela Nagami


Samuel Rawson Gardiner


Samuel Rawson Gardiner remains a respected source on the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), which began as a civil conflict between Protestant p…

Lives of Greek Statesmen

Read by Pamela Nagami


George William Cox


In the darkest days of the Persian War when the armies of Xerxes were overrunning northern Greece, Athens faced destruction. The desperate A…

Hobbes

Read by Pamela Nagami


Leslie Stephen


Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) famously wrote that in the state of nature "the life of man" was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, a…

A Century of Rites : The Making of an Avant - Garde Tradition

In Revisiting the Rite: The Rite of Spring Centenary Conference

Read by Lynn Garafola


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The French Revolution in a Global Perspective

In Humanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge

Read by Lynn Hunt


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Invisible Enemy, Part 1

In Woman Suffrage and Politics

Read by Gracie Lynn


Carrie Chapman Catt


Written after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment and published in 1923, "This book's essential contribution must be sought in its …

Lady de Courcy to Mrs Vernon

In Lady Susan (version 2)

Read by Dreama Lynn


Jane Austen


Jane Austen demonstrated her mastery of the epistolary novel genre in Lady Susan, which she wrote in 1795 but never published. Although the …

03 Retrenchment; Or, What A Man Saved By Stopping His Newspaper

In Off-Hand Sketches

Read by Debra Lynn


T. S. Arthur


The reader cannot but smile at some of the phases of life presented in this volume. Yet the smile will, in no case, the author thinks, be at…

A Narrow Escape

In Tom Swift and His Motorcycle

Read by Gracie Lynn


Victor Appleton


This is the very first Tom Swift adventure. Tom Swift has a newly purchased motorcycle, which he is modifying with his own inventions. He vo…

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