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    • The Royal Marriages That Shaped Europe
    • By: Deborah Cadbury
    • Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
    • Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 162 ratings
    • A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted the most international power and influence: as a matchmaking grandmother. Queen Victoria's Matchmaking travels through the palaces of Europe, weaving in scandals, political machinations, and family tensions....

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    • A History of Places and People
    • By: Clive Aslet
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • The fascinating story of the evolution of the country house in Britain, from its Roman precursors to the present....

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    • Explaining World War I
    • By: Niall Ferguson
    • Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
    • Length: 21 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • The Pity of War makes a simple and provocative argument: the human atrocity known as the Great War was entirely England's fault. According to Niall Ferguson, England entered into war based on naive assumptions of German aims....

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    • Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved
    • By: John Mullan
    • Narrated by: Paul Collins
    • Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 139 ratings
    • In What Matters in Jane Austen?, John Mullan shows that we can best appreciate Austen's brilliance by looking at the intriguing quirks and intricacies of her fiction....

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    • The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I
    • By: Charles Spencer
    • Narrated by: Richard Trinder
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • January, 1649. After seven years of fighting in the bloodiest war in Britain’s history, Parliament faced a problem: what to do with a defeated king, a king who refused to surrender....

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    • The Life of Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry
    • By: Anne de Courcy
    • Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
    • Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • From the author of the critically acclaimed The Viceroy's Daughters, the story of a glittering aristocrat who was also at the heart of political society in the interwar years....

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    • The Life of Henry II in Five Acts
    • By: Claudia Gold
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Oliver
    • Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 07-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Henry so famed during his lifetime has slipped into the shadows of history. King of the North Wind offers a fresh evaluation of this great yet tragic ruler....

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    • Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat into Victory
    • By: Michael Korda
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,251 ratings
    • Combining epic history with rich family stories, Michael Korda chronicles the outbreak of World War II and the great events that led to Dunkirk....

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    • A Life
    • By: Ira Stoll
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 199 ratings
    • Ira Stoll's fascinating biography not only restores this figure to his rightful place in history but portrays him as a man of God....

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    • The True Story of My Successful Great Escape: The Memoir of Bob Vanderstok
    • By: Bram Vanderstok
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • On the night of March 24, 1944, Bram Vanderstok was number 18 of 76 men who crawled beyond the barbed wire fence of Stalag Luft III in Zagan, Poland. His memoir sets down his wartime adventures before being incarcerated in Stalag Luft III and...various escape attempts....

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    • Brief Histories
    • By: Geoffrey Hindley
    • Narrated by: Eleanor David
    • Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 113 ratings
    • Starting AD 400 and running through to the 1100s, historian Geoffrey Hindley shows the Anglo-Saxons as formative in the history not only of England but also of Europe....

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    • By: John Van der Kiste
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • Queen Victoria and Albert, the Prince Consort, had nine children, who, despite their very different characters, remained a close-knit family....

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    • The Unconventional King
    • By: Kathryn Warner
    • Narrated by: Danielle Cohen
    • Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • He is one of the most reviled English kings in history. He was Edward II, and this book tells his story. Kathryn Warner strips away the myths which have been created about him over the centuries, and provides a far more accurate and vivid picture of him than has previously been seen....

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    • The Politics of Passion
    • By: Anne Somerset
    • Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
    • Length: 28 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 119 ratings
    • As Queen Anne's military was performing dazzling exploits on the continent, her own attention rested on an intimate conflict: the female friendship on which her happiness depended....

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    • Daily Life in Old English
    • By: Hana Videen
    • Narrated by: Sara Powell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • Unlike Shakespearean English or even Chaucer’s Middle English, Old English—the language of Beowulf—defies comprehension by untrained modern audiences. Hana Videen gathers a trove of these gems and uses them to illuminate the lives of the earliest English speakers....

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    • 1,000 Years of Bizarre History from Britain and Beyond
    • By: Arran Lomas
    • Narrated by: Arran Lomas
    • Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 629 ratings
    • From the Norman Invasion in 1066 to the eve of the First World War, Stick a Flag in It is a thousand-year jocular journey through the history of Britain and its global empire....

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    • The Story of Abbey Road and the End of the Beatles
    • By: Kenneth Womack, Alan Parsons - foreword
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 632 ratings
    • In February 1969, the Beatles began working on what became their final album together. Abbey Road introduced a number of new techniques and technologies to the Beatles' sound and included "Come Together", "Something", and "Here Comes the Sun", which all emerged as classics....

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    • A History of the English Reformation
    • By: Peter Marshall
    • Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
    • Length: 35 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • Centuries on, what the Reformation was and what it accomplished remain deeply contentious. Peter Marshall's sweeping new history argues that 16th-century England was a society neither desperate for nor allergic to change, but one open to ideas of "reform" in various competing guises....

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    • The Crowned Descendants of Queen Victoria
    • By: Theo Aronson
    • Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt
    • Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Although rarely documented as the warmest of monarchs and often criticized for her surly attitude to motherhood, Queen Victoria did successfully heir nine children. By the late 19th century, she had over 30 surviving grandchildren....

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    • From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court
    • By: Mr. Gareth Russell
    • Narrated by: John Telfer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • The Palace takes us on “an entertaining journey into the past” (Kirkus Reviews) as it reveals the ups and downs of royal history and illustrates what was at play politically, socially, and economically at the time.

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