oratory
Words to rally and inspire: stirring speeches from Elizabeth I to the present
It was a surprise, on reading Speeches of Note, to find myself laughing and chuckling at the speech of a…
Lend me your ears
Complaints about the decline and fall of political oratory are nothing new. Back in 1865 a British reporter branded the…
In defence of the Jacobins
The French Revolution ushered in not only a revolution of rolling heads but of talking ones too. ‘Speech-making was a…
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