History

Condition of the Working-Class in England

by Friedrich Engels Read by Cate Barratt 4.2
This is Engels' first book (since considered a classic account of England's working class in the industrial age), which argues that workers …

The Heroines of History

by John S. Jenkins Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
A look at some of the famous women in European history. Includes biographies on Cleopatra; Isabella of Castile; Joan of Arc; Maria Theresa; …

The Child's Book of American Biography

by Mary Stoyell Stimpson Read by Laura Victoria 4.5
The Child's Book of American Biography introduces young listeners to the remarkable lives of influential figures in American history. Throug…

Minor Works of Josephus

by Flavius Josephus Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
There are 3 parts to this collection.(1) Against Apion is a two-volume defence of Judaism as classical religion and philosophy, stressing it…

The Life of Alfred the Great

by Bishop Of Sherbourne Asser Read by R. S. Steinberg 4.2
The Life of Alfred the Great offers a fascinating glimpse into the life of one of England's most revered monarchs. Written by Bishop Asser, …

Foxe's Book of Martyrs

by John Foxe Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Book of Martyrs, by John Foxe, is an English Protestant account of the persecutions of Protestants, many of whom had died for their beli…

Elizabethan Demonology

by Thomas Alfred Spalding Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025) 4.6
Elizabethan Demonology: An Essay in Illustration of the Belief in the Existence of Devils, and the Powers Possessed By Them, as It Was Gene…

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

by Olive Gilbert Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth is the gripping autobiographical account of Sojourner Truths life as a slave in pre-Civil War New York Stat…

Great Moments in History

by John G. Stockmyer Read by John G. Stockmyer 4.7
Great Moments in History is a collection of ten momentous events in World and Americanhistory, covered by live, on-the-spot newscasters. Th…

That Christ Is One

by St. Cyril of Alexandria and Cyril Of Alexandria Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Cyril of Alexandria was the leading voice of Nicene orthodoxy in the Christological controversies between Constantinople (381) and Chalcedon…

South African Memories

by Lady Sarah Wilson Read by SallyMc 4.6
Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Wilson was the aunt of Winston Spencer Churchill. In 1899 she became the first woman war correspondent when she …

The Science - History of the Universe

by Francis Rolt-Wheeler Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The fifth volume is on Biology written by Caroline E. Stackpole. It discusses b…

The Dawn of Canadian History

by Stephen Leacock Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
This book describes Canada from the beginning of existence to its first European discoverers and includes a brief history of the aboriginal …

History of the Christian Church

by Samuel Cheetham Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
History of the Christian Church by Samuel Cheetham offers a concise overview of the Church's development during its formative first six cent…

The Story of Ancient Irish Civilisation

by Patrick Weston Joyce Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
This little book has been written and published with the main object of spreading as widely as possible among our people, young and old, a k…

Recollections of Bush Life in Australia

by Henry William Haygarth Read by KirksVoice 4.4
This was written in the mid 1800’s at time when Australia saw an influx of immigration from Europe and when England was sending some prisone…

1944 Radio News

4.7
Explore the news from 1944 in this collection. This compilation includes various news segments and V-Discs from that year, providing a glimp…

The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty

by Sir John Barrow Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
The mutiny on the Bounty occurred aboard a British Royal Navy ship on 28 April 1789. The mutiny was led by Fletcher Christian against the co…

Queen Elizabeth

by Edward Spencer Beesly Read by Brendan Stallard 4.3
Explore the life of Queen Elizabeth I, the last monarch of the Tudor dynasty, in this insightful biography by Edward Spencer Beesly. Delve i…

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

by David Hume Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
David Hume is one of the great philosophers of the Western intellectual tradition. His philosophical writings earned him lasting fame and re…

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