United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection, volume 1

United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection, volume 1

LibriVox · Audiobook · 17 episodes

This collection comprises recordings of 17 historic speeches given to the UK House of Commons between 1628 and 1956. Readings are of speeches origninally given by parliamentarians including Oliver Cromwell, Edmund Burke, William Wilberforce, William Gladstone, Keir Hardie, Winston Churchill and Aneurin Bevan. (Summary by Carl Manchester)

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Episodes

Speech on the Petition of Right, 1628

Episode 1 · 21:30
Speech against the Attainder of Strafford, 1641

Episode 2 · 15:27
Speech to Rump Parliament, 1653

Episode 3 · 2:46
Speech on reducing the army, 1731

Episode 4 · 8:06
Speech on House of Commons Reform, 1784

Episode 5 · 24:11
Speech on slavery, 1789

Episode 6 · 10:42
Speech on the Reform Act, 1831

Episode 7 · 4:21
Speech on the Reform Act, 1837

Episode 8 · 5:32
Speech on copyright, 1841

Episode 9 · 36:43
Speech on Irish Home Rule, 1886

Episode 10 · 28:04
Speech on a proposed Channel Tunnel, 1888

Episode 11 · 27:14
Speech on socialism, 1901

Episode 12 · 8:02
Speech on women's suffrage, 1905

Episode 13 · 33:09
Speech on The West Ham Guardians , 1927

Episode 14 · 18:12
Speech on the outbreak of war with Germany, 1939

Episode 15 · 7:34
We shall fight on the beaches, 1940

Episode 16 · 27:50
Speech on the Suez Crisis, 1956

Episode 17 · 31:44