THEY SAW IT HAPPEN - Eyewitness Accounts (Compilation)

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Not Applicable, na, Author.

Contributor:

Naxos Digital Services US.

Series:

Naxos Spoken Word Library.

Naxos Spoken Word Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spoken Word.

Local Subjects:

Spoken Word.

Genre:

Video recordings.

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Naxos Digital Services US Incorporated, 2003.

System Details:

Mode of access: Available online.

Contents:

Execution of Charles I, 1649 ( 06 min., 54 sec. )

The Great Fire of London, 1666 ( 05 min., 50 sec. )

The Siege of Londonderry, 1689 ( 05 min., 06 sec. )

The Salem Witch Trials, 1692 ( 06 min., 05 sec. )

Cock fighting, 1710 ( 03 min., 30 sec. )

Executions, 1728 ( 03 min., 39 sec. )

The Boston Tea Party, 1773 ( 06 min., 53 sec. )

Slavery in the West Indies, 1774 ( 02 min., 31 sec. )

Declaration of Independence, 1776 ( 05 min., 02 sec. )

The first aerial voyage, 1784 ( 04 min., 15 sec. )

Marie Antoinette at the opera, 1792 ( 02 min., 09 sec. )

Execution of Louis XVI, 1793 ( 05 min., 52 sec. )

Fanny Burney glimpses Napoleon, 1802 ( 03 min., 40 sec. )

The death of Nelson, 1805 ( 07 min., 31 sec. )

Taken by the press gang, 1811 ( 04 min., 38 sec. )

A slave owner's view, 1817 ( 01 min., 55 sec. )

One of the first railway passengers, 1830 ( 03 min., 44 sec. )

The exploitation of children, 1831 ( 03 min., 10 sec. )

The coronation of Queen Victoria, 1838 ( 04 min., 26 sec. )

London - prostitutes, 1839 ( 03 min., 56 sec. )

A sale of slaves, 1846 ( 02 min., 42 sec. )

Dickens criticises public executions, 1849 ( 04 min., 09 sec. )

The Charge of the Light Brigade, 1854 ( 08 min., 11 sec. )

The American Civil War, 1862 ( 07 min., 57 sec. )

The meeting of Stanley and Livingstone, 1871 ( 02 min., 14 sec. )

The Battle of Little Bighorn, 1876 ( 03 min., 27 sec. )

A puff of opium in Tiger Bay, 1883 ( 06 min., 16 sec. )

White slavery in London, 1888 ( 07 min., 18 sec. )

Saturday 30 June 1888 ( 04 min., 10 sec. )

Paul Gaugin chooses a bride, 1892 ( 07 min., 05 sec. )

The Battle of Magersfontein, 1899 ( 02 min., 20 sec. )

The first flight, 1903 ( 07 min., 47 sec. )

The Pilgrim Fathers' first few days, 1620 ( 04 min., 45 sec. )

The death of Magellan, 1521 ( 04 min., 47 sec. )

The Black Death, 1348 ( 10 min., 11 sec. )

The murder of Thomas Becket, 1170 ( 05 min., 11 sec. )

The Crusaders liberate Jerusalem, 1099 ( 06 min., 09 sec. )

The eruption of Vesuvius, 79 AD ( 06 min., 06 sec. )

The mass suicide of Zealots at Masada, 74 AD: Now as Eleazar was proceeding... ( 04 min., 40 sec. )

The mass suicide of Zealots at Masada, 74 AD ( 06 min., 24 sec. )

Nero persecutes the Christians, 64 AD ( 02 min., 06 sec. )

The Fire of Rome, 64 AD ( 03 min., 57 sec. )

Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, 49 BC ( 03 min., 18 sec. )

The Spartans at Thermopylae, 480 BC: Next day the combat was renewed ( 07 min., 32 sec. )

The Spartans at Thermopylae, 480 BC ( 07 min., 40 sec. )

Introduction ( 02 min., 58 sec. )

The San Francisco earthquake, 1906 ( 04 min., 10 sec. )

The San Francisco earthquake, 1906 (continued) ( 03 min., 04 sec. )

The first flight across the English Channel, 1909 ( 03 min., 23 sec. )

The arrest of Dr Crippen, 1910 ( 05 min., 49 sec. )

The sinking of the Titanic, 1912 ( 02 min., 48 sec. )

Gas attack - World War I, 1916 ( 06 min., 41 sec. )

Realism in films, 1920 ( 04 min., 41 sec. )

Opening Tutankhamun's tomb, 1922 ( 06 min., 14 sec. )

Lindbergh flies the Atlantic, 1927 ( 04 min., 56 sec. )

The Battle of Britain, 1940 ( 06 min., 12 sec. )

The London Blitz, 1940 ( 05 min., 08 sec. )

The testimony of Rudolf Hess, 1946 ( 07 min., 42 sec. )

The attack on Pearl Harbour, 1941 ( 06 min., 49 sec. )

A Japanese view of the attack on Pearl Harbour, 1941 ( 06 min., 25 sec. )

Hiroshima, 1945 ( 09 minutes, 31 sec. )

Participant:

Gallagher, Teresa, Reader -- Pigott-Smith, Tim, Reader -- Shale, Kerry, Reader -- Hodson, Steve, Reader -- George, Tom, Reader -- Not Applicable, na, Author

Notes:

Naxos Digital Services electronic collection.

Streaming audio.

Publisher Number:

9789626342930

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.