LibriVox recording of 1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors by Mark Twain. Please note: this recording contains strong language. "1601," wrote Mark Twain, "is a supposititious conversation which takes place in Queen Elizabeth's closet in that year, between the Queen, Ben Jonson, Beaumont, Sir Walter Raleigh, the Duchess of Bilgewater, and one or two others ... If there is a decent word findable in it, it is because I overlooked it."...
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Topics: librivox, literature, satire, Great Britain, Elizabeth I, fiction
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Illustrated London News is a magazine published in United Kingdom focused on General Interest Periodicals--Great Britain. This collection contains microfilm published between 1842 and 2003. The ISSN is 0019-2422.
Topic: General Interest Periodicals--Great Britain
A collection of websites that chronicle the 2011 wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.
Topics: Wedding, Windsor, House of, Middleton, Kate, 1982-, William, Prince of Wales, 1982-, Great Britain.
Country Life is an active British weekly general interest magazine founded in 1897 that is published by Future plc. The magazine covers the pleasures and joys of rural life. It is primarily concerned with rural communities and their environments as well as the concerns of country dwellers and landowners. Country Life publishes articles on rural pursuits and interests covered include hunting, shooting, farming, equestrian news and gardening and there are regular news and opinion pieces as well...
Topic: General Interest, Great Britain
Benedict Cumberbatch is an English actor. He has performed in film, theater, radio, and television. Websites document his professional activity, interactions with his fans, and fan-created content in the year 2014.
Topics: Male actors -- Great Britain., Cumberbatch, Benedict, 1976-., Popular culture -- History -- 21st...
Punch was a satirical magazine published weekly from 1841 to 1992. Founded in 1841 by British journalist and playwright Henry Mayhew (1812–1887) and wood-engraver Ebenezer Landells (1808–1860), it published satirical articles accompanied by topical cartoons that captured life in Britain during the 19th and 20th centuries. Inspired by the popular French satirical magazine Le Charivari , each issue featured political and literary criticism, as well as humorous works from a number of...
Topics: General Interest Periodicals--Great Britain, Literary And Political Reviews
Welcome to the Charlotte Mason Digital Collection. Charlotte Mason (1842-1923) was a British educator who devoted her life to improving the quality of children’s education. In 2009-11, this database was created to provide digital access to Mason's manuscripts, correspondence and other archival documents housed in Ambleside, UK, where she established her teacher’s college. For more information about this digital collection, please go to the Charlotte Mason Digital Collection at Redeemer...
Topics: CMDC, Charlotte Mason Digital Collection, Charlotte Mason, L'Umile Pianta, PR, Parents' Review,...
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The title here is a bit of a misnomer. While extensive as it can be, The Story of Civilization was never complete, The Durant couple died before its completion with 11 novels complete. While not finished, The Story of Civilization is still something to admire. Tremendous effort was placed into each book. This is work reading for anyone interested in a detailed summary of Man's history up to a certain point. The books time periods are as follows: 1. Our Oriental Heritage, 2. The Life of Greece,...
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LibriVox recording of Ecclesiastical History of England, by The Venerable Bede, translated by A. M. Sellar. Read by volunteer readers. Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England is a work in Latin by Bede on the history of the Christian Churches in England, and of England generally; its main focus is on the conflict between Roman and Celtic Christianity. It is considered to be one of the most important original references on Anglo-Saxon history. It is believed to have been completed in 731, when...
Topics: LibriVox, audiobook, history, church history, religion, Middle Ages, Great Britain, Ireland
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
News from 1945. I usually share these via torrent but I don't think all these files are available on archive.org so here's a 1945 news file dump. Plus some V-Discs. Any typo or error is mine. ...if you like my uploads / Demonoid torrents please consider donating to a veteran's charity of your choice, thank you. Especially if you intend to make $ or otherwise profit from these files. :D
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Topics: WWII, Tokyo Rose, 1916-2006, Ardennes, Battle Of The, 1944-1945, Iwo Jima, Battle Of, Japan, 1945,...
Wellesley College Library
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Topics: Great Britain -- History Anglo Saxon period, 449-1066, Great Britain -- History Norman period,...
The Blavatsky Lectures presented annually in honor of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Topics: Blavatsky Lecture series, Theosophical Society (Great Britain), Theosophy
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Topics: Heraldry -- Great Britain, Heraldry -- Ireland, Crests, genealogy
News from 1940. I usually share these via torrent but I don't think all these files are available on archive.org so here's a 1940 news file dump. Any typo or error is mine.
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Topics: World War, 1939-1945, London (England) -- History -- Bombardment, 1940-1941, WWII, Old Time Radio,...
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Book from Project Gutenberg: A Gentleman-at-Arms: Being Passages in the Life of Sir Christopher Rudd, Knight
Topics: PZ, Adventure stories, Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603 -- Juvenile fiction
Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43786
LibriVox recording of Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 22, March 30, 1880 Read by LibriVox Volunteers Harper's Young People, an illustrated weekly publication for children, includes serialized and one-off short stories, tales from history, poetry, puzzles, and other fun. This 22nd issue of the serial, published on March 30th, 1880, and just in time for April Fool's Day this issue is full of practical jokes! It also includes adventurous stories like that of a daring lad whose bravery makes...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, poetry, children, history, dog, animals, books, Great Britain, short stories,...
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Producer: David O. Selznick / Director: Alfred Hitchcock / Writers: Joan Harrison, Robert E. Sherwood, Philip MacDonald, Michael Hogan (Screenplay), Daphne DuMaurier (Novel) / Starring: Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier, Judith Anderson;
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TAGLINES : 01) A lonely man, a lovely girl... struggling against the secret of Manderley 02) The shadow of this woman darkened their love. 03) The shadow of a remembered woman came between their lips... but these two had the courage to hope... and to live their love! 04) Overwhelming Romantic Adventure THAT WILL STORM YOUR HEART! (Print Ad- Buffalo Courier-Express, -(Buffalo, NY)- 30 March 1940) 05) The MOST GLAMOROUS WOMAN of All Time! 06) THE MIGHTY NOVEL LEAPS TO TURBULENT LIFE ON THE...
Topics: 1940, Cert. #5969, Award winning film, Literature on Screen, Blockbuster, Classic Period drama,...
News from 1941. I usually share these via torrent but I don't think all these files are available on archive.org so here's a 1941 news file dump. Any typo or error is mine.
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Topics: World War II: Homefront, Tobruk, Battles of, Tobruk, Libya, 1941-1942, World War, 1939-1945 --...
News from 1939. I usually share these via torrent but I don't think all these files are available on archive.org so here's a 1939 news file dump. Any typo or error is mine.
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Topics: World War II: Homefront, World War II, Old Time Radio, World War, 1939-1945, News, River Plate,...
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Topic: Heraldry -- Great Britain
LibriVox recording of A Short History of Wales by Owen M. Edwards. Read in English by Phil Kasper; Michael Fassio A Short History of Wales is a book published in 1906 by Owen Edwards. It aimed to provide an introduction to Welsh history, to those who may not have previously dealt with the subject. -Summary by Anonymous For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this...
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Topics: librivox, audiobooks, history, Great Britain, Wales, Welsh, united kingdom
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Topic: Real property -- Great Britain
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Punch January-June 1926: Volume 170 , Issue None. Digitized from IA1630509-01 . Previous issue: sim_punch_july-december-1925_169 . Next issue: sim_punch_july-december-1926_171 . Note: No issue number found
Topics: General Interest Periodicals--Great Britain, Literary And Political Reviews, Magazines, microfilm
Source: IA1630509-01
LibriVox recording of The Merry-Go-Round by W. Somerset Maugham. Read in English by OCTL7; TR Love; Liz Petersen; Judith Parker Basil Kent marries Jenny Bush, because he believes that is the honourable thing to do after getting her pregnant, but he realizes that he is really in love with Hilda Murray. Grace Castillyon, an established married woman of position, has fallen hopelessly in love with young Reggie Bassett, who is only playing with her. Bella Langton ignores the short remaining days of...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, Great Britain, love, betrayal, man-woman relationships
LibriVox recording of A Desert Drama Being The Tragedy Of The Korosko, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Read by David Wales. Also published under the title The Tragedy of the Korosko (1898). A group of European tourists are enjoying their trip to Egypt in the year 1895. They are sailing up the River Nile in a "a turtle-bottomed, round-bowed stern-wheeler", the Korosko. They intend to travel to Abousir at the southern frontier of Egypt, after which the Dervish country starts. They are...
Topics: Adventure, Egypt, Islam, Dervish, Nile River, Nineteenth century, Great Britain in Egypt, librivox,...
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox recording of The Daredevil of the Army - Experiences as a ''Buzzer'' and Despatch Rider by Austin Patrick Corcoran. Read in English by Steve C At just twenty-six years of age, the author – A P Corcoran had already led an adventurous life, having twice sailed around the world, experiencing many cultures and civilisations, journeyed and hunted through the heart of Africa, worked on a ranch in Bolivia and travelled throughout Europe. With Austria and Serbia on the brink of war and both...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, Great Britain, English, First World War, Army, World War, the great war,...
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Topics: Pharmacopoeias -- Great Britain, Pharmacopoeias as Topic, Pharmacopoeias, Farmacie, United Kingdom,...
LibriVox recording of Poison Romance And Poison Mysteries by Charles John Samuel Thompson. Read in English by David Wales A writer and physician, Charles John Samuel Thompson wrote several works on poisons which are still consulted today. He is especially informative on early historical poisons. This book discusses many cases of poisoning, famous and not so, as well as various topics on poisons and poisoning. - Summary by david wales For further information, including links to online text,...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, Great Britain, United States, nineteenth century, poisons, poisoners,...
Fun was a Victorian weekly magazine published between 1861 and 1901. Established under the editorship of prolific English dramatist Henry J. Byron (1835–1884), the magazine imitated the contemporary satirical publication Punch . Sold for a penny, it was sometimes characterised as a 'poor man's Punch' , with British novelist William Makepeace Thackery (1811–1863) referring to it as “Funch”. It ceased publication in 1901, and was incorporated into the magazine Sketchy Bits . Each issue...
Topics: General Interest Periodicals--Great Britain, Literary And Political Reviews
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Papworth, John W. (John Woody), 1820-1870; Morant, Alfred William Whitehead, 1828-1881, ed
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LibriVox recording of With The Royal Army Medical Corps in Egypt by Tickner Edwardes. Read in English by Steve C Throughout the First World War, members of the Royal Army Medical Corps provided constant support for British and Allied military troops whether they were fighting on the frontline or engaged in other operations within all areas of the conflict. With the Great War continuing unabated and the battlefront extending through Europe into the Middle East and beyond, a rapid increase in...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, Great Britain, English, First World War, Army, World War, the great war,...
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Punch 1841: Volume 1 , Issue None. Digitized from IA1630507-03 . Previous issue: sim_punch_1841_1_index . Next issue: sim_punch_1842_2_index .
Topics: General Interest Periodicals--Great Britain, Literary And Political Reviews, Magazines, microfilm
Source: IA1630507-03
LibriVox recording of The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. I by James Boswell. Read in English by Barbara Baker This is the first of four volumes of a what was a new, intimate, type of biography when it was first published in 1791 and which has been annotated by numerous editors . Boswell took many notes of Johnson's conversations during the time when he knew one of England's most influential men of letters and he also gives us frequent glimpses of other famous personalities who were part of...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, samuel, authors, johnson, english -- 18th century -- biography, critics --...
California Digital Library
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Wrottesley, George, 1827-1909; Great Britain. Public Record Office
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560, xliii p. ; 25 cm
Topics: Pleading -- Great Britain History, Great Britain -- Genealogy Sources
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CBS Television Network; McGraw-Hill Book Company
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Presents an account of Stonehenge, a prehistoric stone monument in England. Tests the theory that it was built as an observatory and computer
Topics: Anthropology., Great Britain.
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California Digital Library
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Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles, 1871-1928
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Topic: Heraldry -- Great Britain
LibriVox recording of The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. II (version 2) by James Boswell. Read in English by Barbara Baker This is the second of four volumes of a what was a new, intimate, type of biography when it was first published in 1791 and which has been annotated by numerous editors . This edition with footnotes is by George Birbeck Hill. Boswell took many notes of Johnson's conversations during the time when he knew one of England's most influential men of letters and he also gives us...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, Samuel Johnson, critics -- great britain -- biography, language and...
LibriVox recording of La Salle, Discovery of The Great West by Francis Parkman, Jr.. Read in English by Phil Schempf; laurencetrask; Paul Esmond; KevinS; Kathleen Moore; Shaun Blake; Andrew Kennedy; Rita Boutros; Hopeforce1; Theoden Humphrey; Nate Oman Parkman has been hailed as one of America's first great historians and as a master of narrative history. Numerous translations have spread the books around the world. The American writer and literary critic Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) in his book O...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, Great Britain, Spain, France, Sioux, la salle, iroquois, hennepin
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Topics: Knights and knighthood, Nobility -- Great Britain, Orders of knighthood and chivalry
LibriVox recording of Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth, Volumes I & II, by Lucy Aikin. Read by Cathy Barratt. Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth from a variety of sources within the monarch's court, compiled and interpreted by Lucy Aikin. (Summary by Cathy Barratt) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a...
Topics: LibriVox, audiobook, history, monarchy, England, Great Britain, Queen Elizabeth I, King Henry VIII,...
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox recording of The Life of Captain James Cook by Arthur Octavius Kitson. Read in English by Gnomesb “In publishing a popular edition of my work, Captain James Cook, R.N., F.R.S., it has, of course, been necessary to condense it, but care has been taken to omit nothing of importance, and at the same time a few slight errors have been corrected, and some new information has been added, chiefly relating to the disposition of documents.” - Summary by the author. For further information,...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, nonfiction, explorers, Great Britain, geographers
Some vols. called "Royal edition" (varies)
Topics: Heraldry -- Great Britain, Knights and knighthood -- Great Britain, Nobility -- Great Britain...
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Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles, 1871-1928
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PIMS - University of Toronto
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Battle Abbey; Cleveland, Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Powlett, Duchess of, 1819-1901
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Topics: Names, Personal -- Norman, Great Britain -- Genealogy
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Microsoft
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British English Version of Windows 8 AIO 16-in-1 [x86-x64] Included Versions: Windows 8 Core Windows 8 Core N Windows 8 Pro Windows 8 Pro VL Windows 8 Pro N Windows 8 Pro with Media Center Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Enterprise N (Windows 8 Single Language is not included)
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Topics: Windows, Windows 8, Windows 8 Core, Windows 8 Pro, Windows 8 Core N, Windows 8 Pro N, Windows 8 N,...
California Digital Library
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Huish, Marcus Bourne, 1845-1921; Allingham, Helen Paterson, 1848-1926
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Our title.--Paintresses, past and present.--The artist's early work.--The artist's Surrey home.--The influence of Witley.--The woods, the lanes, and the fields.--Cottages and homesteads.--Gardens and orchards.--Tennyson's homes.--Mrs Allingham and her contemporaries
Topics: Watercolor painting -- Great Britain, England -- Pictorial works
LibriVox recording of The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 by Edmund Burke. Read in English by Elijah Fisher; LenB; Joshua Paul Seeger.; jenno; Arden; andreabertelli ; Florence; Kathleen Moore; Jim Locke; Misikis; Gillian Hendrie; Theresa E Kao; Michele Eaton Edmund Burke was an Irish statesman, economist, and philosopher. Born in Dublin, he moved to London in 1750 and later served as a member of parliament between 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons of Great Britain. He...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, Great Britain, political science, edmund burke
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Lichfield, Eng. (Diocese). Consistory Court
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Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Topics: Church of England. Diocese of Lincoln -- Consistory court, Wills -- Lichfield, Eng. (Diocese),...
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