Cromwell's Place in History: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Cromwell's Place in History, credited to Samuel Rawson Gardiner, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Cromwell's Place in History by Samuel Rawson Gardiner. Read in English by Pamela Nagami. In the autumn of 1896, the renowned historian of the 17th century, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, delivered six lectures on "Cromwell's Place in History" at the University of Oxford. Gardiner wrote that the "object of these lectures is not to deal with the biography of Cromwell, but to estimate his relation to the political and ecclesiastical movements of his time." Thus, each lecture puts the reader in the midst of a critical period of Cromwell's career, analyzing how and why he acted in response to the problems he encountered. (Summary by Pamela Nagami, M.D.)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Cromwell's Place in History
• Author credits: Samuel Rawson Gardiner
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 11
• Listed recording duration: 3:34:03

Catalogue topics

• scotland
• Presbyterian
• Ireland
• parliament
• puritan
• oliver cromwell
• new model army
• english civil war

Track guide

1. 01 - Lecture 1: The Puritan and Constitutional Opposition, Pt. 1 — 17:29
2. 02 - Lecture 1: The Puritan and Constitutional Opposition, Pt. 2 — 22:47
3. 03 - Lecture 2: Cromwell in the Civil War, Pt. 1 — 19:50
4. 04 - Lecture 2: Cromwell in the Civil War, Pt. 2 — 20:39
5. 05 - Lecture 3: The Commonwealth and the Three Nations, Pt. 1 — 21:22
6. 06 - Lecture 3: The Commonwealth and the Three Nations, Pt. 2 — 19:39
7. 07 - Lecture 4: Cromwell and the Parliaments of the Commonwealth, Pt. 1 — 18:28
8. 08 - Lecture 4: Cromwell and the Parliaments of the Commonwealth, Pt. 2 — 17:21
9. 09 - Lecture 5: The Protectorate, Pt. 1 — 16:59
10. 10 - Lecture 5: The Protectorate, Pt. 2 — 12:59
11. 11 - Lecture 6: Recapitulatory — 26:30

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