A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General …


Read by Pamela Nagami

The fourth and concluding volume of this history of Victorian Britain opens with the brutal repression in 1865 of a rebellion by ex-slaves in Jamaica. Then in 1867, the Conservative Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, takes his celebrated "leap in the dark" with the passage of the most comprehensive expansion of manhood suffrage in British history. The Fenian movement agitates unsuccessfully for Irish independence. British trade unions win the right to organize. William Ewart Gladstone launches his great reform ministry by abolishing in Ireland the hated Anglican establishment and follows with a flood of bills reforming education, the British army, and poor relief. The period closes with the imperialist adventures of Benjamin Disraeli's last ministry and the pageantry of the Congress of Berlin, at which Disraeli and Bismarck conclude the negotiations ending the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78. - Summary by Pamela Nagami, M.D. (16 hr 20 min)

Chapters

Ch. 48: The New Government, Pt. 1 20:57 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 48: The New Government, Pt. 2 20:04 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 49: The Troubles in Jamaica, Pt. 1 18:50 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 49: The Troubles in Jamaica, Pt. 2 18:22 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 49: The Troubles in Jamaica, Pt. 3 11:35 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 50: Driven Back across the Rubicon, Pt. 1 21:30 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 50: Driven Back across the Rubicon, Pt. 2 18:08 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 51: The Reform Agitation, Pt. 1 14:23 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 51: The Reform Agitation, Pt. 2 14:30 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 52: The Leap in the Dark, Pt. 1 14:04 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 52: The Leap in the Dark, Pt. 2 17:24 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 52: The Leap in the Dark, Pt. 3 18:50 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 53: The Fenian Movement, Pt. 1 17:10 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 53: The Fenian Movement, Pt. 2 20:56 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 53: The Fenian Movement, Pt. 3 16:51 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 54: Trades-Unions, Pt. 1 20:19 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 54: Trades-Unions, Pt. 2 19:39 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 54: Trades-Unions, Pt. 3 16:44 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 55: The Example of the New Dominion, Pt. 1 16:02 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 55: The Example of the New Dominion, Pt. 2 22:25 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 56: 'Begins with Soldan, Ends with Prester John,' Pt. 1 22:51 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 56: 'Begins with Soldan, Ends with Prester John,' Pt. 2 20:16 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 57: The Irish Church, Pt. 1 22:50 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 57: The Irish Church, Pt. 2 22:33 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 58: 'Irish Ideas,' Pt. 1 16:17 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 58: 'Irish Ideas,' Pt. 2 19:49 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 58: 'Irish Ideas,' Pt. 3 18:20 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 59: 'Reformation in a Flood,' Pt. 1 19:31 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 59: 'Reformation in a Flood,' Pt. 2 23:12 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 59: 'Reformation in a Flood,' Pt. 3 21:08 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 60: The Black Sea Clause: The Alabama Arbitration, Pt. 1 16:53 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 60: The Black Sea Clause: The Alabama Arbitration, Pt. 2 14:53 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 60: The Black Sea Clause: The Alabama Arbitration, Pt. 3 16:00 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 61: The Turn of the Tide, Pt. 1 22:09 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 61: The Turn of the Tide, Pt. 2 21:31 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 62: The Fall of the Great Administration, Pt. 1 24:24 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 62: The Fall of the Great Administration, Pt. 2 28:16 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 63: 'Conservative Reaction' installed in Office, Pt. 1 23:13 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 63: 'Conservative Reaction' installed in Office, Pt. 2 21:19 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 64: The Eastern Question Again, Pt. 1 20:08 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 64: The Eastern Question Again, Pt. 2 18:16 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 64: The Eastern Question Again, Pt. 3 19:10 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 65: The Congress of Berlin, Pt. 1 27:38 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 65: The Congress of Berlin, Pt. 2 22:20 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 66: The Anti-climax of Imperialism, Pt. 1 19:43 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 66: The Anti-climax of Imperialism, Pt. 2 23:07 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 67: The Literature of the Reign: Second Survey, Pt. 1 14:27 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 67: The Literature of the Reign: Second Survey, Pt. 2 22:57 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 67: The Literature of the Reign: Second Survey, Pt. 3 18:13 Read by Pamela Nagami
Ch. 67: The Literature of the Reign: Second Survey, Pt. 4 20:25 Read by Pamela Nagami