A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, Volume IV: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, Volume IV, credited to Justin McCarthy, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, Volume IV by Justin McCarthy. Read in English by Pamela Nagami 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.

Recording facts

• Recording title: A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, Volume IV
• Author credits: Justin McCarthy
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 50
• Listed recording duration: 16:20:32

Catalogue topics

• Queen Victoria
• trade unions
• imperialism
• otto von bismarck
• william ewart gladstone
• benjamin disraeli
• lord john russell
• fenian movement

Opening tracks: first 24 of 50

1. 01 - Ch. 48: The New Government, Pt. 1 — 20:57
2. 02 - Ch. 48: The New Government, Pt. 2 — 20:04
3. 03 - Ch. 49: The Troubles in Jamaica, Pt. 1 — 18:50
4. 04 - Ch. 49: The Troubles in Jamaica, Pt. 2 — 18:22
5. 05 - Ch. 49: The Troubles in Jamaica, Pt. 3 — 11:35
6. 06 - Ch. 50: Driven Back across the Rubicon, Pt. 1 — 21:30
7. 07 - Ch. 50: Driven Back across the Rubicon, Pt. 2 — 18:07
8. 08 - Ch. 51: The Reform Agitation, Pt. 1 — 14:23
9. 09 - Ch. 51: The Reform Agitation, Pt. 2 — 14:30
10. 10 - Ch. 52: The Leap in the Dark, Pt. 1 — 14:04
11. 11 - Ch. 52: The Leap in the Dark, Pt. 2 — 17:24
12. 12 - Ch. 52: The Leap in the Dark, Pt. 3 — 18:50
13. 13 - Ch. 53: The Fenian Movement, Pt. 1 — 17:10
14. 14 - Ch. 53: The Fenian Movement, Pt. 2 — 20:56
15. 15 - Ch. 53: The Fenian Movement, Pt. 3 — 16:51
16. 16 - Ch. 54: Trades-Unions, Pt. 1 — 20:19
17. 17 - Ch. 54: Trades-Unions, Pt. 2 — 19:39
18. 18 - Ch. 54: Trades-Unions, Pt. 3 — 16:44
19. 19 - Ch. 55: The Example of the New Dominion, Pt. 1 — 16:02
20. 20 - Ch. 55: The Example of the New Dominion, Pt. 2 — 22:25
21. 21 - Ch. 56: 'Begins with Soldan, Ends with Prester John,' Pt. 1 — 22:51
22. 22 - Ch. 56: 'Begins with Soldan, Ends with Prester John,' Pt. 2 — 20:16
23. 23 - Ch. 57: The Irish Church, Pt. 1 — 22:50
24. 24 - Ch. 57: The Irish Church, Pt. 2 — 22:33

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