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Childhood obesity: what are its future health and social consequences?

In Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminars

Read by Jennifer Baker


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Winning His Spurs: A Tale of the Crusades

Read by Jennifer Gasiecki


G. A. Henty


Set in the late twelfth century during the Third Crusade, the Norman Conquest having occurred not much more than a hundred years ago, Winnin…

The Girl Next Door

Read by Jennifer Dallman


Augusta Huiell Seaman


Marcia Brett has noticed unusual activity at the ramshackle and seemingly abandoned mansion next door: a mysterious, veiled lady is seen com…

Mabel Ross, the Sewing Girl

Read by Jennifer Fournier


Unknown


Orphaned Mabel struggles to raise her sisters by working as a sewing girl for long hours and low wages. She meets her challenges with a calm…

Mary's Grammar: Interspersed with Stories and Intended for the Use of Children

Read by Jennifer Dallman


Jane Marcet


Mary's teacher has taxed her with the task of learning that most onerous of all parts of the English language: Grammar. Through stories and …

Cloud Studies

Read by Jennifer Dallman


Arthur William Clayden


Classification of clouds, and meteorological condition of how they are formed. Written by Arthur W. Clayden, M.A., who was the former princi…

The Republic of the Future

Read by Jennifer Fournier


Anna Bowman Dodd


or Socialism a Reality In the year 2050, Wolfgang travels to the socialist city of New York. He writes enthusiastically to his friend Hanne…

The Prairie Wife

Read by Jennifer Perree


Arthur Stringer


GeeGee has fallen, in love that is. Witty, funny, intelligent. Gee Gee's Letters to her friend tell the unscripted story of the adventures i…

Catholic and Anti-Catholic History

Read by Janet Baker


Various


G.K. Chesterton and James Walsh join Hilaire Belloc in an energetic rollout of the means by which history becomes propaganda, to the damage,…

Discourses: Biological and Geological

Read by Barbara Baker


Thomas Henry Huxley


Thomas Henry Hux­ley was an English biologist (comparative anatomist). He was the most effective supporter of Darwin's Theory of Evoluti…

The English Language

Read by Barbara Baker


Logan Pearsall Smith


A description and history of the development of the English Language and reflections on the influences that changed the language. - Summary …

The Novels of Jane Austen

Read by Barbara Baker


George Henry Lewes


An 1859 essay by the prominent philosopher and literary critic, G. H. Lewes, who was an enthusiastic promoter of the novels of Jane Austen a…

The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. I (version 2)

Read by Barbara Baker


James Boswell


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 an…

Hieroglyphic Tales

Read by Barbara Baker


Horace Walpole


Surreal and satirical, these stories by the eighteenth century man of letters, Whig politician, art historian and antiquarian are '"...…

Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay

Read by Barbara Baker


Thomas Babington Macaulay


An review essay of "Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay". The Edinburgh Review, January, 1843. Reprinted in vol. iii of Macaulay'…

Recollections of the Revolution and the Empire

Read by Barbara Baker


Henriette Lucie Dillon, marquise de La Tour du Pin Gouvernet


An aristocratic Frenchwoman's personal record of the dazzling extravagance of the Ancien Régime, of the court of Marie Antoinette, of…

Italian Hours

Read by Barbara Baker


Henry James


A loving recollection of the writer’s experiences, over many decades, of Italian places, people and art. - Summary by barbara2

Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia and Letter to a Friend

Read by Barbara Baker


Thomas Browne


Selections from the varied writings of a 17th century English doctor with a well-stocked mind, an interest in the new science of his age and…

The Desirable Alien at Home in Germany

Read by Barbara Baker


Ford Madox Ford and Violet Hunt


A travel journal of a year the author spent in Germany. With a preface and two additional chapters by her partner, the novelist Ford Madox F…

Horace Walpole's Letters: a selection

Read by Barbara Baker


Horace Walpole


Horace Walpole, 4th earl of Orford, was a cultivated participant in, and observer of, the social and political life of Georgian England. His…

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