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Historia.nu med Urban LindstedtKarlskronas grundande – Värnet mot ärkefienden DanmarkI november 1679 kliver kung Karl XI iland på Trossö i Blekinges skärgård. Redan året därpå får Karlskrona sina stadsprivilegier. Här ska ett nytt nav för Sveriges sjömakt växa fram – långt från huvudstadens hamnar, men närmare ärkefienden Danmark.Bakom beslutet låg dyrköpta lärdomar från det skånska kriget (1675–1679), där Sverige nästan förlorade Skåne och flottan led ett förödande nederlag vid Ölands södra udde. I samband med detta gick regalskeppet Kronan under, och över 800 man omkom.I detta avsnitt av podden...
2025-10-0643 min
Versailles Christmas-Tide09 - Versailles Christmas-Tide by Mary Stuart BoydIn the heart of France, a young boy contracts scarlet fever while away at school, prompting his anxious parents to rush to his side. This poignant memoir captures the essence of love, family, and the trials of a Christmas season fraught with uncertainty. - Summary by David Wales
2025-08-1909 minVersailles Christmas-Tide08 - Versailles Christmas-Tide by Mary Stuart BoydIn the heart of France, a young boy contracts scarlet fever while away at school, prompting his anxious parents to rush to his side. This poignant memoir captures the essence of love, family, and the trials of a Christmas season fraught with uncertainty. - Summary by David Wales
2025-08-1908 minVersailles Christmas-Tide07 - Versailles Christmas-Tide by Mary Stuart BoydIn the heart of France, a young boy contracts scarlet fever while away at school, prompting his anxious parents to rush to his side. This poignant memoir captures the essence of love, family, and the trials of a Christmas season fraught with uncertainty. - Summary by David Wales
2025-08-1919 minVersailles Christmas-Tide06 - Versailles Christmas-Tide by Mary Stuart BoydIn the heart of France, a young boy contracts scarlet fever while away at school, prompting his anxious parents to rush to his side. This poignant memoir captures the essence of love, family, and the trials of a Christmas season fraught with uncertainty. - Summary by David Wales
2025-08-1907 minVersailles Christmas-Tide05 - Versailles Christmas-Tide by Mary Stuart BoydIn the heart of France, a young boy contracts scarlet fever while away at school, prompting his anxious parents to rush to his side. This poignant memoir captures the essence of love, family, and the trials of a Christmas season fraught with uncertainty. - Summary by David Wales
2025-08-1913 minVersailles Christmas-Tide04 - Versailles Christmas-Tide by Mary Stuart BoydIn the heart of France, a young boy contracts scarlet fever while away at school, prompting his anxious parents to rush to his side. This poignant memoir captures the essence of love, family, and the trials of a Christmas season fraught with uncertainty. - Summary by David Wales
2025-08-1913 minVersailles Christmas-Tide03 - Versailles Christmas-Tide by Mary Stuart BoydIn the heart of France, a young boy contracts scarlet fever while away at school, prompting his anxious parents to rush to his side. This poignant memoir captures the essence of love, family, and the trials of a Christmas season fraught with uncertainty. - Summary by David Wales
2025-08-1920 minVersailles Christmas-Tide02 - Versailles Christmas-Tide by Mary Stuart BoydIn the heart of France, a young boy contracts scarlet fever while away at school, prompting his anxious parents to rush to his side. This poignant memoir captures the essence of love, family, and the trials of a Christmas season fraught with uncertainty. - Summary by David Wales
2025-08-1922 minVersailles Christmas-Tide01 - Versailles Christmas-Tide by Mary Stuart BoydIn the heart of France, a young boy contracts scarlet fever while away at school, prompting his anxious parents to rush to his side. This poignant memoir captures the essence of love, family, and the trials of a Christmas season fraught with uncertainty. - Summary by David Wales
2025-08-1912 min
Rereading Our ChildhoodRereading Little Women, with Jamie StiehmOn this episode, syndicated columnist Jamie Stiehm joins us to reread Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women, which was published in two parts in 1868 and 1869.Mentioned on this episode:Other books by Alcott: Little Men (1871), Eight Cousins (1874), Rose in Bloom (1876), Jo’s Boys (1886)Also mentioned:Peyton Thomas’s tweet saying Alcott was transPeyton Thomas’s New York Times guest column saying that Alcott was transPeyton Thomas’s podcast Jo’s Boys (on Apple and Spotify)Film adaptations: Little Women (1933), with Katharine Hepburn (tra...
2025-07-1654 min
A Clan A Day PodcastClan BoydWelcome back to "A Clan A Day Podcast," brought to you by bagtownclans.com. I’m your host, Colin MacDonald, and today we’re exploring the vibrant and sometimes tumultuous history of Clan Boyd, a family whose legacy is woven deep into the fabric of Scottish history. Whether it’s political intrigue, feudal battles, or royal alliances, the Boyds have seen it all, leaving an indelible mark on Scotland’s Lowlands and beyond.Let’s start with the origin of the Boyd name. There’s some debate around this, but two main theories prevail. One is that Boyd comes f...
2024-09-2406 min
The Goddess, The Witch & The WombS2 Ep10: Pamela Colman SmithPamela Coleman Smith, nicknamed "Pixie," was a British artist responsible for every single illustration on all seventy-eight cards of the A.E. Waite and Rider Tarot Deck. She was involved heavily in the 1920s Suffragist movement in London. She created many of the posters that were hung throughout the city to let women know where they were gathering, to meet and discuss their rights, where they could get together to support each other, and the Suffragist movement, and to push the government in the direction that they wanted them to go. Pamela was a very w...
2023-05-2328 min
Embark On The Breakthrough Full Audiobook Experience!The Price of Silence: A BBC Radio 4 Cold War Sci-Fi Thriller by Stephen BarlayPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/568203to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Price of Silence: A BBC Radio 4 Cold War Sci-Fi Thriller
Author: Stephen Barlay
Narrator: Paul Hardwick, Alan Tilvern, Vladek Sheybal, Zhivila Roche, Carl Duering, Toby Robins, George Coulouris, Ian Hendry, Full Cast
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 3 hours 57 minutes
Release date: April 21, 2022
Genres: Science Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
Stephen Barlay's gripping Cold War drama about the threat of nuclear war Laid up in a CIA hospital, recovering from a gunshot wound, British agent Maxon is about to have his peaceful convalescence shattered. As the radio DJ introduces In the Mood...
2022-04-213h 57Explore The Unforgettable Full Audiobook Now, Curious Minds!The Price of Silence: A BBC Radio 4 Cold War Sci-Fi Thriller by Stephen BarlayPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/568203to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Price of Silence: A BBC Radio 4 Cold War Sci-Fi Thriller
Author: Stephen Barlay
Narrator: Paul Hardwick, Alan Tilvern, Vladek Sheybal, Zhivila Roche, Carl Duering, Toby Robins, George Coulouris, Ian Hendry, Full Cast
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 3 hours 57 minutes
Release date: April 21, 2022
Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian
Publisher's Summary:
Stephen Barlay's gripping Cold War drama about the threat of nuclear war Laid up in a CIA hospital, recovering from a gunshot wound, British agent Maxon is about to have his peaceful convalescence shattered. As the radio DJ introduces In the Mood...
2022-04-213h 57Discover the Best Audio Stories in Science Fiction & Fantasy, Apocalyptic & DystopianThe Price of Silence: A BBC Radio 4 Cold War Sci-Fi Thriller by Stephen BarlayPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/568203to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Price of Silence: A BBC Radio 4 Cold War Sci-Fi Thriller
Author: Stephen Barlay
Narrator: Paul Hardwick, Alan Tilvern, Vladek Sheybal, Zhivila Roche, Carl Duering, Toby Robins, George Coulouris, Ian Hendry, Full Cast
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 3 hours 57 minutes
Release date: April 21, 2022
Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian
Publisher's Summary:
Stephen Barlay's gripping Cold War drama about the threat of nuclear war Laid up in a CIA hospital, recovering from a gunshot wound, British agent Maxon is about to have his peaceful convalescence shattered. As the radio DJ introduces In the Mood...
2022-04-213h 57
What'shernameVERSAILLES CHRISTMASTIDE Mary Stuart Boyd: 2021 Christmas SpecialMary Stuart Boyd spent Christmas 1900 in Versailles, not on a festive tour of the grand palace, but to stay with her 13-year-old son, quarantined there with scarlet fever. Her Versailles experience seems worlds away from today’s tourist mobs. The author of eight novels and three travel narratives, her delightful insights leave us amazed that no one’s ever heard of her.
This year’s Christmas Special is read by Sophie Greenhalgh-Cook from Not For the Dinner Table.
Images from Mary Stuart Boyd’s book, drawn by her husband Alexander Stuart Boyd
2021-12-2100 min
What'sHerNameVERSAILLES CHRISTMASTIDE Mary Stuart BoydMary Stuart Boyd spent Christmas 1900 in Versailles, not on a festive tour of the grand palace, but to stay with her 13-year-old son, quarantined there with scarlet fever. Her Versailles experience seems worlds away from today’s tourist mobs. The author of eight novels and three travel narratives, her delightful insights leave us amazed that no one’s ever heard of her. This year’s Christmas Special is read by Sophie Greenhalgh-Cook from Not For the Dinner Table.Music featured in this episode provided by Aaron Kenny, Esther Abrami, and Marc Nelson.Want to help us “ma...
2021-12-2142 min
AGT Time Pod - America's Got Talent FancastAGT - Season 3 - Auditions 1Cody and Jay start off their season 3 recap with auditions 1 of America's Got Talent. We tried to make podcasting classy. I think we totally missed the boat. Jerry Springer, The Hoff, Sharon Osborne, and Piers Morgan are back. We get a cute little 4-year old singer, a dancing trombonist, and an opera singer. Season 3 YouTube Playlist Billy Curly Lady J. Houston The Quiddlers Jonathan Arons Indiggo Nuttin But Strings Mary Bly Kaitlyn Maher Slippery Kittens Chay Fang Jonathan Burken Derek Berry Sterling Silver Sick Step Cafidia Stuart Dallas Dance Company Extreme Dance FX Neil E. Boyd Podcast Pa...
2021-10-041h 15
Conferencias de la March¿Por qué las Islas Baleares? (I): Mallorca. ¿Donde toda maravilla es posible?Los viajeros llegados a las Islas Baleares, y más concretamente a Mallorca, en el siglo XIX y la primera mitad del siglo XX traían en su imaginario, aún sin saberlo, referencias de la literatura clásica. La catedrática emérita y académica Carme Riera observa esos tópicos siguiendo los testimonios de viajeros ilustres como George Sand, Santiago Rusiñol, Rubén Darío, Miguel de Unamuno, José María Salaverría, Gaston Vuillier, Mary Stuart Boyd o Josep Pla, entre muchos otros.Más información de este acto
2021-02-2355 min
Biolinks AllianceSquirrel Glider Citizen Science, Community Engagement and Data Quality - WorkshopGliders are an ideal flagship species to engage the broader community in meaningful conservation action. Use of cit sci atlases has flourished and the data informs public knowledge. How is it going to be used?
Hear our expert panel of speakers discuss their approach to citizen science, community engagement and data quality for the Squirrel Glider species.
Expert panel:
Lou Bull (Burrumbuttock Squirrel Glider LAMP)
Dr Kylie Soanes (University of Melbourne)
Mary Bonet (Glideways Kanangra-Boyd to Wyangala Link)
Jess Lawton (Connecting Country)
Peter Menkhorst (Arthur Rylah Institute DELWP)
Facilitated b...
2020-11-1945 min
Last WordStuart Wheeler, Josephine Cox, Miloš Jakeš, Peter GreenPictured: Stuart WheelerMatthew Bannister onStuart Wheeler, the spread betting tycoon who used his millions to fund anti-EU political parties and campaigns.Josephine Cox, the multi-million selling author whose novels often drew on her working class childhood in Blackburn.Miloš Jakeš, the General Secretary of the Czech Communist Party at the time of the Velvet Revolution.Peter Green, the revered guitarist who founded Fleetwood Mac, but later suffered severe mental health problems.Interviewed guest: Philip Collins
Interviewed guest: Kimberley Young
Interviewed guest: Professor Mary Heimann
Interviewed gu...
2020-07-3128 min
Deviant WomenPamela Colman SmithFamous today as the overlooked illustrator of the influential Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot Deck, in her own time Pamela Colman Smith something of an enigma. Known for her lively and enchanting Jamaican folklore performances, her publishing press and literary magazine, and for her extraordinary miniature theatre, Pamela - Pixie to her friends - wove magical worlds where women had agency and gender was fluid. But she was also a woman cloaked in mystery, and who was often Othered by her contemporaries. Join us, together with PCS scholar Elizabeth Foley O'Connor, as we travel from England to Jamaica, New York and Cornwall, tr...
2019-05-171h 11
Wildly Tarot PodcastPamela Colman Smith: The Untold StoryIn this episode we talk about a college textbook sized biography of all things Pamela Colman Smith (Pixie). High points of this episode are; Miniature Theaters...who knew one could make so much money with such a teeny stage? Pixie knowing pretty much everyone and anyone who was in the bohemian art scene, and Pixie's amazing ability to hear color. We also talk about our favorite pieces of artwork from her extensive career and the legacy she left behind.
Book of the Week: Pamela Colman Smith: The Untold Story by Stuart R. Kaplan, Mary K. Greer, Elizabeth Fol...
2019-02-281h 05
Escape To A Captivating Full Audiobook On Your Commute.A Versailles Christmas-Tide by Mary Stuart BoydPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/282986to listen full audiobooks.
Title: A Versailles Christmas-Tide
Author: Mary Stuart Boyd
Narrator: David Wales
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 2 hours 7 minutes
Release date: January 10, 2017
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2
Genres: Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
The Boy has fallen ill with scarlet fever while at school in France. His parents rush to his side. A touching memoir. - Summary by david wales
2017-01-102h 07Access Must-Have Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, MemoirsA Versailles Christmas-Tide by Mary Stuart BoydPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/282986to listen full audiobooks.
Title: A Versailles Christmas-Tide
Author: Mary Stuart Boyd
Narrator: David Wales
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 2 hours 7 minutes
Release date: January 10, 2017
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2
Genres: Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
The Boy has fallen ill with scarlet fever while at school in France. His parents rush to his side. A touching memoir. - Summary by david wales
2017-01-102h 07
Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, MemoirsA Versailles Christmas-Tide by Mary Stuart BoydPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/282986 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Versailles Christmas-Tide Author: Mary Stuart Boyd Narrator: David Wales Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 7 minutes Release date: January 10, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Boy has fallen ill with scarlet fever while at school in France. His parents rush to his side. A touching memoir. - Summary by david wales
2017-01-1005 min
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Discover This Addictive Full Audiobook And Feel The Difference.The Ranch by Danielle SteelPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122514to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Ranch
Author: Danielle Steel
Narrator: Ron McLarty
Format: Abridged Audiobook
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
Release date: September 28, 2004
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 10
Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Drama
Publisher's Summary:
In her 39th best-selling novel, Danielle Steel brings to life the story of three women, old roommates from college, who come together after twenty years, one summer at The Ranch. They had been inseparable in college, Mary Stuart, Tanya, and Zoe. But in the more than twenty years that followed, the three had moved on with their...
2004-09-286h 06