History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, Volume IV
Justin McCarthy
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Length 16 h 21 min
Chapters 50
First published 1881
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.
Chapters
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Ch. 48: The New Government, Pt. 1 Read by Pamela Nagami 20:57
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Ch. 48: The New Government, Pt. 2 Read by Pamela Nagami 20:04
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Ch. 49: The Troubles in Jamaica, Pt. 1 Read by Pamela Nagami 18:50
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Ch. 49: The Troubles in Jamaica, Pt. 2 Read by Pamela Nagami 18:22
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Ch. 49: The Troubles in Jamaica, Pt. 3 Read by Pamela Nagami 11:35
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Ch. 50: Driven Back across the Rubicon, Pt. 1 Read by Pamela Nagami 21:30
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Ch. 50: Driven Back across the Rubicon, Pt. 2 Read by Pamela Nagami 18:08
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Ch. 51: The Reform Agitation, Pt. 1 Read by Pamela Nagami 14:23
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Ch. 51: The Reform Agitation, Pt. 2 Read by Pamela Nagami 14:30
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Ch. 52: The Leap in the Dark, Pt. 1 Read by Pamela Nagami 14:04
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Ch. 52: The Leap in the Dark, Pt. 2 Read by Pamela Nagami 17:24
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Ch. 52: The Leap in the Dark, Pt. 3 Read by Pamela Nagami 18:50
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Ch. 53: The Fenian Movement, Pt. 1 Read by Pamela Nagami 17:10
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Ch. 53: The Fenian Movement, Pt. 2 Read by Pamela Nagami 20:56
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Ch. 53: The Fenian Movement, Pt. 3 Read by Pamela Nagami 16:51
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Ch. 54: Trades-Unions, Pt. 1 Read by Pamela Nagami 20:19
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Ch. 54: Trades-Unions, Pt. 2 Read by Pamela Nagami 19:39
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Ch. 54: Trades-Unions, Pt. 3 Read by Pamela Nagami 16:44
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Ch. 55: The Example of the New Dominion, Pt. 1 Read by Pamela Nagami 16:02
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Ch. 55: The Example of the New Dominion, Pt. 2 Read by Pamela Nagami 22:25
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Ch. 56: 'Begins with Soldan, Ends with Prester John,' Pt. 1 Read by Pamela Nagami 22:51
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Ch. 56: 'Begins with Soldan, Ends with Prester John,' Pt. 2 Read by Pamela Nagami 20:16
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Ch. 57: The Irish Church, Pt. 1 Read by Pamela Nagami 22:50
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Ch. 57: The Irish Church, Pt. 2 Read by Pamela Nagami 22:33
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Ch. 58: 'Irish Ideas,' Pt. 1 Read by Pamela Nagami 16:17
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Ch. 58: 'Irish Ideas,' Pt. 2 Read by Pamela Nagami 19:49
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Ch. 58: 'Irish Ideas,' Pt. 3 Read by Pamela Nagami 18:20
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Ch. 59: 'Reformation in a Flood,' Pt. 1 Read by Pamela Nagami 19:31
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Ch. 59: 'Reformation in a Flood,' Pt. 2 Read by Pamela Nagami 23:12
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Ch. 59: 'Reformation in a Flood,' Pt. 3 Read by Pamela Nagami 21:08
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Ch. 60: The Black Sea Clause: The Alabama Arbitration, Pt. 1 Read by Pamela Nagami 16:53
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Ch. 60: The Black Sea Clause: The Alabama Arbitration, Pt. 2 Read by Pamela Nagami 14:53
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Ch. 60: The Black Sea Clause: The Alabama Arbitration, Pt. 3 Read by Pamela Nagami 16:00
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Ch. 61: The Turn of the Tide, Pt. 1 Read by Pamela Nagami 22:09
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Ch. 61: The Turn of the Tide, Pt. 2 Read by Pamela Nagami 21:31
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Ch. 62: The Fall of the Great Administration, Pt. 1 Read by Pamela Nagami 24:24
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Ch. 62: The Fall of the Great Administration, Pt. 2 Read by Pamela Nagami 28:16
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Ch. 63: 'Conservative Reaction' installed in Office, Pt. 1 Read by Pamela Nagami 23:13
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Ch. 63: 'Conservative Reaction' installed in Office, Pt. 2 Read by Pamela Nagami 21:19
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Ch. 64: The Eastern Question Again, Pt. 1 Read by Pamela Nagami 20:08
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Ch. 64: The Eastern Question Again, Pt. 2 Read by Pamela Nagami 18:16
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Ch. 64: The Eastern Question Again, Pt. 3 Read by Pamela Nagami 19:10
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Ch. 65: The Congress of Berlin, Pt. 1 Read by Pamela Nagami 27:38
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Ch. 65: The Congress of Berlin, Pt. 2 Read by Pamela Nagami 22:20
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Ch. 66: The Anti-climax of Imperialism, Pt. 1 Read by Pamela Nagami 19:43
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Ch. 66: The Anti-climax of Imperialism, Pt. 2 Read by Pamela Nagami 23:07
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Ch. 67: The Literature of the Reign: Second Survey, Pt. 1 Read by Pamela Nagami 14:27
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Ch. 67: The Literature of the Reign: Second Survey, Pt. 2 Read by Pamela Nagami 22:57
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Ch. 67: The Literature of the Reign: Second Survey, Pt. 3 Read by Pamela Nagami 18:13
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Ch. 67: The Literature of the Reign: Second Survey, Pt. 4 Read by Pamela Nagami 20:25
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