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Dive into Short Stories in Prose and Verse, the inaugural published collection by the renowned Henry Lawson, released in 1894. This volume captures the essence of Lawson’s unique writing style at the dawn of his literary career. Having penned his first poem at just 20 years old, he graced the literary world with this collection by age 27. This selection of Lawson’s poetry and prose not only showcases his early brilliance but also serves as a perfect gateway to explore his later, more celebrated works. Summary by Chris Greaves.

From a fierce and humorous new voice comes a relevant, insightful, and riveting collection of personal essays on the richness and resilience of black girl culture—for readers of Samantha Irby, Roxane Gay, Morgan Jerkins, and Lindy West. Shayla Lawson is major. You don’t know who she is. Yet...

Welcome to The Reluctant Historian, the podcast where I, a history teacher, try to show my husband that history IS actually pretty cool! Each week we sit down to talk about a different event in history. At the end, the reluctant historian gets to decide if history really is that boring. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

American State Trials, Volume 1 offers an unparalleled collection of the significant and fascinating criminal trials that have occurred in the United States since its inception. This comprehensive series, rich in drama and historical detail, serves as an engaging and educational resource. It transports you straight to the courtroom, placing you amidst the judges, jurors, and defendants, and immersing you in a captivating, real-life drama. The trials and subsequent verdicts tell stories of pathos and intrigue, innocence and guilt, power and poverty. This collection presents not only the ...

Published to mark the 30th anniversary of the financial revolution known as 'Big Bang', Crash Bang Wallop will tell the gripping story of how the changes introduced in the 1980s in the City of London transformed our world. Attitudes to money and the way we measure value and status were...

Christopher Lee's highly acclaimed and award-winning BBC Radio 4 history of the British Empire.

On Christmas day, 1929 a rural North Carolina tobacco farmer brutally murdered six of his children, his wife and then killed himself. The horrific crime made the front page of the New York Times. It inspired a hit record and would conjure up rumor and speculation for generations to come. Some say Charlie Lawson just snapped while others believe it may have been centered around a troubled heart. But as brutal and bizarre as the murders were, what followed the funeral has become the stuff of legend. The crime scene became a tourist attraction with bloody photographs being sold as souvenirs. ...

Originally published in the 16th century, this is the classic history of the lives, sufferings, and deaths of the early Christian martyrs. As interesting as fiction, it is written with both passion and tenderness, telling the dramatic story of some of the most thrilling periods in Christian history.

When Julia Scully was seven years old, her father committed suicide, and she and her sister were sent to an orphanage. Julia sought comfort in the rituals of the orphanage - learning to knit, roller-skating after dinner, listening to One Man's Family on the radio - and tried to adapt. But two years later, emotionally damaged by the isolation and brutality of the orphanage, the girls followed their mother to the near-wilderness of the gold-mining territory north of Nome, Alaska.

Queer Edinburgh: The Tapes is an oral history podcast recorded by the Living Memory Association as part of Scotland's Year of Stories 2022. Each episode is an edited oral history interview exploring the people and places that have shaped Edinburgh's LGBTQ+ community both in the past and present. This podcast is supported by Museums and Galleries Scotland and Visit Scotland.