Fifty Years Ago: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Fifty Years Ago, credited to Walter Besant, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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

LibriVox recording of Fifty Years Ago by Walter Besant. Read in English by garybclayton; Jim Locke Sir Walter Besant (1836-1901) was a prolific novelist and historian. He wrote Fifty Years Ago to present a picture of life, manners, and society in Great Britain as it was when Queen Victoria ascended to the throne. In 1837, the seeds of new technology and new ideas were present and monumental changes from the ways of the 1700's were about to be felt. Starting first in London and over several decades, the progress moved outwards to the country towns of the British Isles. - Summary by Gary Clayton

Recording facts

• Recording title: Fifty Years Ago
• Author credits: Walter Besant
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 6:01:24

Catalogue topics

• Great Britain
• Victorian era
• england
• 19th century life

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 6:28
2. 01 - Great Britain, Ireland, and the Colonies — 25:17
3. 02 - The Year 1837 — 15:03
4. 03 - London in 1837 — 18:48
5. 04 - In the Street — 23:17
6. 05 - With the People — 24:43
7. 06 - With the Middle-Class — 33:19
8. 07 - In Society — 21:34
9. 08 - At the Play and the Show — 15:34
10. 09 - In the House — 16:19
11. 10 - At School and University — 8:09
12. 11 - The Tavern — 18:52
13. 12 - In Club- and Card-Land — 10:45
14. 13 - With the Wits — 26:00
15. 14 - Journals and Journalists — 7:59
16. 15 - The Sportsman — 20:24
17. 16 - In Factory and Mine — 13:19
18. 17 - With the Men of Science — 7:12
19. 18 - Law and Justice — 32:20
20. 19 - Conclusion — 16:02

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