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Exploring the meanings of standards in language testing

In Department of Education Public Seminars

Read by Barry O'Sullivan


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Robin Hood

Read by Barry Eads


J. Walker McSpadden


Robin Hood is a heroic outlaw in English folklore. A highly skilled archer and swordsman, he is known for "robbing from the rich and gi…

A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier: Some of the Adventures, Dangers, and Su…

Read by Barry Eads


Joseph Plumb Martin


Joining the Continental Army as a teenager, Joseph Plumb Martin spent the next eight years fighting in the Revolutionary War as an enlisted …

The Road

Read by Barry Eads


Jack London


Jack London credited his skill of story-telling to the days he spent as a hobo learning to fabricate tales to get meals from sympathetic str…

The Jacket

Read by Barry Eads


Jack London


A framing story is told in the first person by Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin State Priso…

The Curse of Capistrano

Read by Barry Eads


Johnston McCulley and Johnston Mcculley


The Curse of Capistrano by Johnston McCulley is the first work to feature the fictional character Zorro (zorro is the Spanish word for fox).…

Johnny Reb and Billy Yank

Read by Barry Eads


Alexander Hunter


Johnny Reb & Billy Yank is an epic novel first published in 1905 by Alexander Hunter, a soldier who served in Confederate General Robert…

The Life of Honorable William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill The Famous Hunter,…

Read by Barry Eads


William Frederick Cody


The life and adventures of Honorable William F. Cody--Buffalo Bill--as told by himself, make up a narrative which reads more like romance th…

Jesse James, My Father

Read by Barry Eads


Jesse James, Jr.


A biography of Jesse James as told by his son, Jesse James, Jr. We are treated to inside tales of Jesse's childhood and home life; what dro…

Famous American Statesmen

Read by Barry Eads


Sarah Knowles Bolton


A sketch of the lives of some of America's early Statesmen: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Andr…

Yollop

Read by Barry Eads


George Barr Mccutcheon


Mr. Crittenden Yollop makes friends with the man who came to burglarize his home and sets out to help him return to where he really wants to…

I Sold The Moon! (A True Story)

Read by Barry McArdle


Barry McArdle


Just because it happened, doesn't mean you'll believe it. Take a rollicking ride through the 1970s with the original Moon Man, Barry McArdle…

Natural Theology

Read by Barry Ganong


William Paley


In this early nineteenth-century classic, William Paley assesses how our understanding of nature reflects characteristics of its creator. Fi…

Natural Science and Religion

Read by Barry Ganong


Asa Gray


Asa Gray was a highly-regarded botanist at Harvard University and a friend and collaborator of Charles Darwin. As a Christian, Gray was conc…

The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth

Read by Barry Ganong


John Bagnell Bury


John Bagnell Bury was Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University in the early twentieth century. In The Idea of Progress, he…

Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy volume 1

Read by Barry Ganong


John Tulloch


This work addresses the birth and development of a rationalist stream in the Christianity of England in the seventeenth century. In this vol…

Selected Works of E. Boyd Smith

Read by Barry Eads


E. Boyd Smith


A sampling of the children's books written and illustrated by E. Boyd Smith. The first story is Mr. Smith's version of the Story of Noah's …

Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy volume 2

Read by Barry Ganong


John Tulloch


In this second volume of his work on English rational theology in the seventeenth century, Tulloch describes the lives and works of the grou…

Across America by Motorcycle

Read by Barry Eads


C. K. Shepherd


The year is 1919 and Charles Kenilworth ("C.K.") Shepherd, a former British Royal Air Force Captain and World War I veteran, has d…

Scholasticism: A Lecture Delivered Before the University of Oxford

Read by Barry Ganong


Walter Waddington Shirley


Walter Waddington Shirley was made Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford in 1863. This short work co…

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