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United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection
This collection comprises recordings of 17 historic speeches given to the UK House of Commons between 1628 and 1956. Readings are of speeches origninally given by parliamentarians including Oliver Cromwell, Edmund Burke, William Wilberforce, William Gladstone, Keir Hardie, Winston Churchill and Aneurin Bevan.
(Summary by Carl Manchester)
- Hansard online
- Wikipedia – UK House of Commons
- M4B format available
- LibriVox’s United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection Internet Archive page
- Zip file of the entire book (149MB)
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Total running time: 5:11:07
In addition to the readers, this audibook was produced by:
Meta-Coordinator/Cataloging:
Carl Manchester
mp3 and ogg files
- 01 – On The Petition of Right by John Eliot, 1628 – 21:30
[mp3@64kbps - 10.3MB]
[mp3@128kbps - 20.6MB]
[ogg vorbis - 12MB]
Read by: David Federman - 02 – Against the Attainder of Strafford by George Digby, 1641 – 15:27
[mp3@64kbps - 7.4MB]
[mp3@128kbps - 14.8MB]
[ogg vorbis - 8.5MB]
Read by: David Federman - 03 – To the Rump Parliament by Oliver Cromwell, 1653 – 2:46
[mp3@64kbps - 1.3MB]
[mp3@128kbps - 2.6MB]
[ogg vorbis - 1.5MB]
Read by: Carl Manchester - 04 – Reducing the army by William Pulteney, 1731 – 8:06
[mp3@64kbps - 3.8MB]
[mp3@128kbps - 7.7MB]
[ogg vorbis - 3.5MB]
Read by: Rachel Lintern - 05 – House of Commons reform by Edmund Burke, 1784 – 24:11
[mp3@64kbps - 11.6MB]
[mp3@128kbps - 23.2MB]
[ogg vorbis - 13MB]
Read by: Sibella Denton - 06 – On slavery by William Wilberforce, 1789 – 10:42
[mp3@64kbps - 5.1MB]
[mp3@128kbps - 10.2MB]
[ogg vorbis - 5.7MB]
Read by: icyjumbo - 07 – On the Reform Act by Robert Peel, 1831 – 4:21
[mp3@64kbps - 2.0MB]
[mp3@128kbps - 4.1MB]
[ogg vorbis - 2.3MB]
Read by: Sibella Denton - 08 – On the Reform Act by Lord John Russell, 1837 – 5:32
[mp3@64kbps - 2.6MB]
[mp3@128kbps - 5.3MB]
[ogg vorbis - 2.9MB]
Read by: Sibella Denton - 09 – Copyright by Thomas Macaulay, 1841 – 36:43
[mp3@64kbps - 17.6MB]
[mp3@128kbps - 35.2MB]
[ogg vorbis - 19MB]
Read by: Philippa - 10 – Irish Home Rule by William Gladstone, 1886 – 28:04
[mp3@64kbps - 13.4MB]
[mp3@128kbps - 26.9MB]
[ogg vorbis - 15MB]
Read by: Sibella Denton - 11 – A proposed Channel Tunnel by William Gladstone, 1888 – 27:14
[mp3@64kbps - 13.0MB]
[mp3@128kbps - 26.1MB]
[ogg vorbis - 15MB]
Read by: Christine Blachford - 12 – Socialism by James Keir Hardie, 1901 – 8:02
[mp3@64kbps - 3.8MB]
[mp3@128kbps - 7.7MB]
[ogg vorbis - 4.1MB]
Read by: Sally Ann Cook - 13 – Women’s suffrage by James Keir Hardie, 1905 – 33:09
[mp3@64kbps - 15.9MB]
[mp3@128kbps - 31.8MB]
[ogg vorbis - 18MB]
Read by: icyjumbo - 14 – The West Ham Guardians by Susan Lawrence, 1927 – 18:12
[mp3@64kbps - 8.7MB]
[mp3@128kbps - 17.4MB]
[ogg vorbis - 9.4MB]
Read by: Philippa - 15 – On the outbreak of war with Germany by Neville Chamberlain, 1939 – 7:34
[mp3@64kbps - 3.6MB]
[mp3@128kbps - 7.2MB]
[ogg vorbis - 4.1MB]
Read by: Sibella Denton - 16 – “We shall fight on the beaches” by Winston Churchill, 1940 – 27:50
[mp3@64kbps - 13.3MB]
[mp3@128kbps - 26.7MB]
[ogg vorbis - 16MB]
Read by: Mark F. Smith - 17 – The Suez Crisis by Aneurin Bevan, 1956 – 31:44
[mp3@64kbps - 15.2MB]
[mp3@128kbps - 30.4MB]
[ogg vorbis - 16MB]
Read by: Carl Manchester
Cataloged on November 25, 2008
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