United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection, volume 2

by Various

14 chapters4h 32mEnglish1956

About this book

This is the second LibriVox collection of speeches given in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The collection comprises recordings of 14 historic speeches given to the UK House of Commons between 1766 and 1956. Readings are of speeches origninally given by parliamentarians including William Pitt the Elder, John Stuart Mill, Dadabhai Naoroji, Lady Astor, Stanley Baldwin, Clement Attlee, Aneurin Bevan and Tony Benn. (Summary by Carl Manchester)

Chapters (14)

1Speech against the Stamp Act of 1765, 1766

641

2Speech on capital punishment, 1868

1421

3Speech on taxation in India, 1893

1041

4Speech on the effects of liquor for women and children, 1920

1242

5Speech on disarmament, 1923

1083

6Speech on unemployment amongst women, 1924

790

7The Bomber Will Always Get Through, 1932

979

8Speech on the BBC, 1933

408

9Speech on the Abdication, 1936

1794

10Speech on decolonisation

837

11Speech on the NHS Act, 1946

3119

12Speech on the Cold War, 1950

877

13Speech on the Voice of Britain, 1956

1463

14Speech on the Suez Crisis, 1956

630

United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection, volume 2

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Chapters (14)

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