Voices from history


	Voices from history
JohnWaterman
12-4-2007 11:30 AM
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history, sound, speeches, pankhurst, thatcher, florence nightingale, lloyd george, lenin, george v
JohnWaterman says:
A bit anglocentric, but loads more sounds and speeches in their archive
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To the old soldiers of Balaclava (1890)</SPAN></p> </TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/themes/voices.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="top"><P class="subnavHeader"><A id="lbl03" class="subnavHeader" href="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/themes/voices/pankhurst.html">CHRISTABEL HARRIETTE PANKHURST</A><SPAN class="arial11">
Votes for women! (1908)</SPAN></p> </TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/themes/voices.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="top"><P class="subnavHeader"><A id="lbl04" class="subnavHeader" href="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/themes/voices/george.html">DAVID LLOYD GEORGE</A></p> <SPAN class="arial11">The famous 'People's Budget' (1909)</SPAN></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/themes/voices.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="top"><P class="subnavHeader"><A id="lbl05" class="subnavHeader" href="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/themes/voices/lenin.html">VLADIMIR ILICH LENIN</A></p> <SPAN class="arial11">In memory of Comrade Yakov Mikhailovich (1919)</SPAN></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/themes/voices.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="top"><P class="subnavHeader"><A id="lbl06" class="subnavHeader" href="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/themes/voices/georgev.html">KING GEORGE V</A><SPAN class="arial11">
Christmas speech on the wireless (1932)</SPAN></p> </TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/themes/voices.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="top"><P class="subnavHeader"><A id="lbl07" class="subnavHeader" href="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/themes/voices/baldwin.html">STANLEY BALDWIN</A><SPAN class="arial11">
What it means to be British (1937)</SPAN></p> </TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/themes/voices.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="top"><P class="subnavHeader"><A id="lbl08" class="subnavHeader" href="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/themes/voices/elizabeth.html">PRINCESS ELIZABETH</A><SPAN class="arial11">
Message to the children of Britain (1940)</SPAN></p> </TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/themes/voices.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="top"><P class="subnavHeader"><A id="lbl09" class="subnavHeader" href="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/themes/voices/roosevelt.html">FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT</A><SPAN class="arial11">
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)</SPAN></p> </TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/themes/voices.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="top"><P class="subnavHeader"><A id="lbl10" class="subnavHeader" href="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/themes/voices/russell.html">BERTRAND RUSSELL</A><SPAN class="arial11">
On nuclear disarmament (1959)</SPAN></p> </TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/themes/voices.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="top"><P class="subnavHeader"><A id="lbl01" class="subnavHeader" href="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/themes/voices/thatcher.html">MARGARET THATCHER</A><SPAN class="arial11">
Argentina invades the Falklands (1982)</SPAN></p> </TD></tr></table></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/75E3D7B5-2932-4775-87CD-29442B3C718B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>