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Austerity and Adversity

In Oriel College Chapel Services

Read by Justine Allain Chapman


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Africa, O Africa

Read by Louise Robinson Chapman


Louise Robinson Chapman


This is the story of Louise Robinson Chapman, a missionary in Africa. From 1920 until 1940 she ministered to the dark continent, coming to t…

Lecture 4: "The Greatest Mechanick of this Present Age": Dr Robert Hooke and the…

In Department of Engineering Science Centenary Lectures

Read by Allan Chapman


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Useful Phrases: iconoclastic attitude - incipient fancy

In Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

Read by Chris Chapman


Grenville Kleiser


A Practical Handbook of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, and Oratorical Terms, for the Embelli…

Chapter 33, part 5

In History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688…

Read by Chris Chapman


David Hume


David Hume is one of the great philosophers of the Western intellectual tradition. His philosophical writings earned him lasting fame and re…

Beaconsville, Lent and Revivals

In Selected Interviews with Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 1

Read by Chris Chapman


Robert G. Ingersoll


A controversial lecturer, brilliant lawyer, and arguably the most famous orator of the mid to late 1800's, Ingersoll railed against the absu…

02 - A Visit to the Moon

In Life in a Thousand Worlds

Read by Chris Chapman


William Shuler Harris


A jolly romp, which could be perhaps be described as Gulliver’s Travels Through Our Solar System and Beyond, as written by a great admirer o…

Preface

In With Fire and Sword (Byers)

Read by Chris Chapman


Samuel H.M. Byers and Samuel H. M. Byers


Samuel H. M. Byers was an American poet, diplomat, and soldier in the Civil War. "In war some persons seek adventures; others have them…

Chapter V, Part 20

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 05)

Read by Chris Chapman


Thomas Babington Macaulay


This chapter of Macaulay’s History of England is concerned, for a large part, with insurrection against James II and his manoeuverings to su…

Chapter VI, Part 4

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 2, Chapter 06)

Read by Chris Chapman


Thomas Babington Macaulay


This chapter starts from about 1685. James is on the throne and, as ever, there are disputes between crown and Parliament. We see the Habeus…

01 - Preface + Chapter 1

In Robert O'Hara Burke and the Australian Exploring Expedition of 1860

Read by Chris Chapman


Andrew Jackson


A non-fictional account of Burke and Wills's 1860 expedition to cross the Australian continent from south to north and then return. Containi…

Chapter XI, Part 5

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 3, Chapter 11)

Read by Chris Chapman


Thomas Babington Macaulay


In chapter 11 William and Mary have been crowned and settle down to the task of ruling England. An endless succession of British noblemen jo…

18-2 - Tahiti and New Zealand

In The Voyage of the Beagle

Read by Chris Chapman


Charles Darwin


The book, also known as Darwin's Journal of Researches, is a vivid and exciting travel memoir as well as a detailed scientific field journal…