A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, Volume I

About this film

LibriVox recording of A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, Volume I by Justin McCarthy. Read in English by Pamela Nagami An engaging history of Great Britain in the heyday of Queen Victoria and of her empire by the liberal Irish Member of Parliament, Justin McCarthy. He brings us the larger than life personalities of the day, Victoria and Albert, Russell and Peel, O'Connell and Palmerston, Gladstone and Disraeli, and relates great events, the Afghan War, the Irish famine, and the Crimean War without ever losing sight of the hopes and fears of the common people at home and abroad. (Pamela Nagami) 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 volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . M4B Audiobook 01-20 (160MB) M4B Audiobook 21-39 (184MB)

Directors & creators

Justin McCarthy

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;whigs; Queen Victoria; Irish famine; william ewart gladstone; sir robert peel; benjamin disraeli; lord melbourne; john russell; daniel o'connell; the duke of wellington; prince albert; the sepoy rebellion; tories; the afghan war

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