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Brother Griffith's Story of Mad Monkton - Chapter III

In The Queen of Hearts

Read by Claire M


Wilkie Collins


The elderly Brothers Owen, Morgan and Griffith live a quiet, retired life in the countryside, which is turned upside-down by Griffith's ward…

Book Second, Part 2, Chapters 49 to 52. Concerning a further part of the provin…

In The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, concerning the kingdoms and marvels o…

Read by Claire M


Rustichello da Pisa and Rustichello Da Pisa


"Books of the Marvels of the World" or "Description of the World" (Divisament dou monde), also nicknamed "Il Milion…

Railways and Imperial Consolidation

In Chronicles of Canada Volume 26 - The Tribune of Nova Scotia: A Chronicle of Jos…

Read by Claire M


William Lawson Grant


Joseph Howe (1804-1873) was one of Nova Scotia's greatest and best-loved politicians. He was instrumental in helping Nova Scotia become the …

The "Argonauts"

In Chronicles of Canada Volume 23 - The Cariboo Trail: A Chronicle of the Gold-fie…

Read by Claire M


Agnes C. Laut


Between the California and Yukon/Klondike gold rushes was the Cariboo Gold Rush in what would become northern British Columbia. The first di…

What are the needs and challenges for data visualisation? - Media Perspective pa…

In Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

Read by Claire Miller


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Do bones have politics? Forensic knowledge, human remains and the politics of th…

In Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars

Read by Claire Moon


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Kant's little East Prussian Head and Other Reasons why we Write

In Rothermere American Institute

Read by Claire Messud


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Among the Farmyard People

Read by Claire Schreuder


Clara Dillingham Pierson


A wonderful children's book filled with engaging stories about various farmyard animals. Each book ending with a moral which gently encourag…

Pollyanna of the Orange Blossoms

Read by Claire Schreuder


Harriet Lummis Smith


Pollyanna marries sweetheart Jimmy Pendleton, and together they move to start their married life in Boston. The book follows their many adve…

Wonderwings and other Fairy Stories

Read by Claire Goget


Edith Howes


A collection of three short stories about fairies, complete with good moral lessons (as every fairy tale should be). (Summary by Claire Goge…

A Christmas Carol (version 05)

Read by Kyle M.


Charles Dickens


The miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is a cold-hearted man of business and has little time for the good humor and charity of the Christmas season. B…

Lady Molly of Scotland Yard

Read by J. M. Smallheer


Baroness Emma Orczy


Lady Molly of Scotland Yard is a collection of short stories about Molly Robertson-Kirk, an early fictional female detective. It was written…

The Haunted Bookshop

Read by J. M. Smallheer


Christopher Morley


Roger Mifflin is the somewhat eccentric proprietor of The Haunted Bookshop, a second-hand bookstore in Brooklyn that is "haunted by the…

The Fairy Tales of Science

Read by J. M. Smallheer


John Cargill Brough


This book, written in the mid 19th century and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, provides an entertaining introduction to topics in science…

Night and Day

Read by J. M. Smallheer


Virginia Woolf


Night and Day (1919) is a novel by Virginia Woolf. Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the daily lives of two friends, Katharin…

The Old Man in the Corner

Read by J. M. Smallheer


Baroness Emma Orczy


Created by Baroness Orczy, author of the famous Scarlet Pimpernel series, The Old Man in the Corner was one of the earliest armchair detecti…

The Sorceress of the Strand

Read by J. M. Smallheer


L. T. Meade


From the moment Madame Sara arrived on the scene, she has taken London society by storm. Madame is both beautiful and mysterious, but it so…

The House of a Thousand Candles

Read by J. M. Smallheer


Meredith Nicholson


A top ten bestseller of 1906, The House of a Thousand Candles is part adventure/mystery and part romance. The book begins with young Jack Gl…