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Lord Clive

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Thomas Babington Macaulay


Robert Clive was, in Macaulay’s view, the real founder of British power in India. Macaulay himself served on the Governor’s Council in India…

Seven Men

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Max Beerbohm


In order to liven up the literary history of Great Britain in the 1890s (as if Oscar Wilde, Stevenson, Kipling, Hardy, etc., were not lively…

Warren Hastings

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Thomas Babington Macaulay


"Warren Hastings" is Chapter IV of Thomas Macaulay's Critical and Historical Essays, vol. III. It first appeared in the Edinburgh …

La Grande Bretèche

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Honoré de Balzac


La Grande Bretèche is an addendum to Balzac's Another Study of Woman, and is the final of a set of stories told around a dinner table…

Section 7: The Comparison as to Ages

In Legends of Saints and Sinners

Read by Nolan Purcell


Douglas Hyde


"I have called the present volume "Legends of Saints and Sinners," which to a certain extent it is; but I mean it for a book …

Frimaire, by Amy Lowell

In Anthology of Massachusetts Poets

Read by Nicholas Adduci


William Stanley Braithwaite


Poet and editor of many anthologies, William Stanley Braithwaite, gathers a collection of poems from well known and lesser known poets from …

Trapped in Shells: Mindset and Materiality in First World War Trench Art and Bey…

In Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference

Read by Nicholas Saunders


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

BoarBand 17

In Piggy Moto - All Star Boar Band

Read by Nicholas McRae


Nicholas McRae


A band of porcine musicians have entered an international competition with the hopes of changing the world's unflattering prejudices concern…

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