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The True History of Merlin the Magician
- By: Anne Lawrence-Mathers
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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The historical Merlin was no rough magician: he was a learned figure from the cutting edge of medieval science and adept in astrology, cosmology, prophecy, and natural magic, as well as being a seer and a proto-alchemist. His powers were convincingly real—and useful, for they helped to add credibility to the "long-lost" history of Britain which first revealed them to a European public. Merlin's prophecies reassuringly foretold Britain's path, establishing an ancient ancestral line and linking biblical prophecy with more recent times. Merlin helped to put British history into world history.
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Great listen
- By RM on 13-10-23
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The True History of Merlin the Magician
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 07-03-23
- Language: English
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The History of the Dutch Empire - Trade, Colonies, and Power
- Exploring the Power Structures of a Maritime Empire
- By: Dakikon Publishing
- Narrated by: Roberto Hofmann
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Step aboard a wind-powered voyage through history—into the heart of one of the most influential, complex, and far-reaching colonial empires ever built. In The History of the Dutch Empire, discover how a small republic forged a global legacy through trade, naval dominance, and strategic colonial control. From the bustling canals of Amsterdam to the shores of Java, the plantations of Suriname, and the brief Dutch foothold in the Americas, this audiobook unpacks the intricate web of commerce, conquest, and governance that defined Dutch expansion.
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The History of the Dutch Empire - Trade, Colonies, and Power
- Exploring the Power Structures of a Maritime Empire
- Narrated by: Roberto Hofmann
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 02-03-26
- Language: English
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Unnatural Murder: Poison in the Court of James I
- The Overbury Murder
- By: Lady Anne Somerset
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 20 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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In the autumn of 1615 the Earl and Countess of Somerset were detained on suspicion of having murdered Sir Thomas Overbury. The arrest of these leading court figures created a sensation. The young and beautiful Countess of Somerset had already achieved notoriety when she divorced her first husband in controversial circumstances. The Earl of Somerset was one of the richest and most powerful men in the kingdom, having risen to prominence as the male 'favourite' of James I.
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Wrong Narrator
- By Ola on 22-06-21
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Unnatural Murder: Poison in the Court of James I
- The Overbury Murder
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 20 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 18-02-21
- Language: English
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Nature's Mutiny
- How the Little Ice Age Transformed the West and Shaped the Present
- By: Philipp Blom
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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‘Europe where the sun dares scarce appear For freezing meteors and congealed cold.’ Christopher Marlowe In this innovative and compelling work of environmental history, Philipp Blom chronicles the great climate crisis of the 1600s, a crisis that would transform the entire social and...
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Global cooling
- By StephanQuintet on 14-10-23
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Nature's Mutiny
- How the Little Ice Age Transformed the West and Shaped the Present
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 07-03-19
- Language: English
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Travellers in the Golden Realm
- How Mughal India Connected England to the World
- By: Lubaaba Al-Azami
- Narrated by: Monica Sagar
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Shortlisted for The British in India Book Prize 2025 'A spellbinding account of the first forgotten half of the English encounter with India with a fascinating history of the Mughal Empire' JOSEPHINE QUINN, author of How the World Made the West 'Compelling, highly readable' NANDINI DAS, author...
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Travellers in the Golden Realm
- How Mughal India Connected England to the World
- Narrated by: Monica Sagar
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 18-07-24
- Language: English
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Hot Protestants
- A History of Puritanism in England and America
- By: Michael P. Winship
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Begun in the mid-16th century by Protestant nonconformists keen to reform England's church and society while saving their own souls, the puritan movement was a major catalyst in the great cultural changes that transformed the early modern world. Providing a uniquely broad transatlantic perspective, this groundbreaking volume traces puritanism's tumultuous history from its initial attempts to reshape the Church of England to its establishment of godly republics in both England and America, and its demise at the end of the 17th century.
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Appalling narrator
- By Bastet Pybus on 02-12-22
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Hot Protestants
- A History of Puritanism in England and America
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 21-05-19
- Language: English
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The Man Who Invented Fiction
- How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World
- By: William Egginton
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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In the early 17th century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a novel. It was the story of a poor nobleman, his brain addled from studying too many novels of chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off on hilarious adventures. That story, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside the Bible, making its author, Miguel de Cervantes, the single most-read author in human history.
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The Man Who Invented Fiction
- How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 12-07-16
- Language: English
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Steel Lobsters
- Crown, Commonwealth, and the Last Knights in England
- By: Myke Cole
- Narrated by: Oliver Hembrough
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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The 17th-century battlefield ushered in a new era, with formed musketeers and pistol-wielding cavalry gradually taking over from the knights and men-at-arms that had dominated the European battlefield. Based on a detailed study of the primary sources, Steel Lobsters tells the story of this transition through the history of the last fully armoured knights in England.
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An amazing book
- By Amazon Customer on 25-03-25
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Steel Lobsters
- Crown, Commonwealth, and the Last Knights in England
- Narrated by: Oliver Hembrough
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 07-11-24
- Language: English
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1619
- Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy
- By: James Horn
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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The essential history of the extraordinary year in which American democracy and American slavery emerged hand in hand in Virginia “If anyone today knows colonial Virginia, it is James Horn.” —Wall Street Journal Along the banks of the James River, during an oppressively hot spell in the...
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A Hangman’s Diary
- The Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg, 1573-1617
- By: Franz Schmidt, Albrecht Keller - editor and translator, C. Calvert BA - translator, and others
- Narrated by: John McLain
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Now an esoteric of legal and criminal history, A Hangman's Diary gives a year-by-year breakdown on all of Master Franz Schmidt's executions, which included hangings, beheadings, and other methods, as well as details of each capital crime and the reason for the punishment.
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After reading this never judge another society’s wrongs!
- By Dennis Sommers on 16-09-21
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A Hangman’s Diary
- The Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg, 1573-1617
- Narrated by: John McLain
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 17-08-21
- Language: English
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How the Old World Ended
- The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution 1500-1800
- By: Jonathan Scott
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Between 1500 and 1800, the North Sea region overtook the Mediterranean as the most dynamic part of the world. At its core, the Anglo-Dutch relationship intertwined close alliance and fierce antagonism to intense creative effect. But a precondition for the Industrial Revolution was also the establishment in British North America of a unique type of colony - for the settlement of people and culture, rather than the extraction of things.
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Fascinating summay and arguments
- By Caroline Buchan on 15-09-25
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How the Old World Ended
- The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution 1500-1800
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 23-09-20
- Language: English
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The Journey to the Mayflower
- God’s Outlaws and the Invention of Freedom
- By: Stephen Tomkins
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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The illegal underground movement of Protestant separatists from Elizabeth I's Church of England is a story of subterfuge and danger, arrests and interrogations, prison and executions. It starts with Queen Mary's attempts to burn Protestantism out of England, which created a Protestant underground. Later, when Elizabeth's Protestant reformation didn't go far enough, radicals recreated that underground, meeting illegally throughout England, facing prison and death for their crimes. They went into exile in the Netherlands, where they lived in poverty - and finally the New World.
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An extraordinary story
- By Bob on 27-01-20
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The Journey to the Mayflower
- God’s Outlaws and the Invention of Freedom
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 23-01-20
- Language: English
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Out of the Shadow of a Giant
- How Newton Stood on the Shoulders of Hooke and Halley
- By: John Gribbin, Mary Gribbin
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Shortlisted for the BSHS Hughes Prize What if Isaac Newton had never lived? Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley, whose place in history has been overshadowed by the giant figure of Newton, were pioneering scientists within their own right, and instrumental in establishing the Royal Society. Whilst...
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A great tribute to two Great men
- By Peter on 23-02-19
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Out of the Shadow of a Giant
- How Newton Stood on the Shoulders of Hooke and Halley
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 18-05-17
- Language: English
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Unfabling the East
- The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia
- By: Jürgen Osterhammel, Robert Savage - translator
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 25 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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During the long 18th century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. In this panoramic book, author Jürgen Osterhammel tells the story of the European Enlightenment's nuanced encounter with the great civilizations of the East, from the Ottoman Empire and India to China and Japan. A momentous work by one of Europe's most eminent historians, Unfabling the East takes listeners on a thrilling voyage to the farthest shores, bringing back vital insights for our own multicultural age.
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Unfabling the East
- The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 25 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 13-11-18
- Language: English
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The Great Plague of London
- The History and Legacy of England's Last Major Outbreak of the Bubonic Plague
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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In the 14th century, a ruthless killer stalked the streets of England, wiping out up to 60 percent of the terror-stricken nation's inhabitants. This invisible and unforgiving terminator continued to harass the population for hundreds of years, but nothing could compare to the savagery it would unleash three centuries later. This conscienceless menace was none other than the notorious bubonic plague, also known as the "Black Death".
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Sounds like it’s written and narrated by AI
- By Anonymous on 10-06-24
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The Great Plague of London
- The History and Legacy of England's Last Major Outbreak of the Bubonic Plague
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
- Release date: 17-04-17
- Language: English
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The Dutch Moment
- War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World
- By: Wim Klooster
- Narrated by: Fred Filbrich
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
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In The Dutch Moment, Wim Klooster shows how the Dutch built and eventually lost an Atlantic empire that stretched from the homeland in the United Provinces to the Hudson River and from Brazil and the Caribbean to the African Gold Coast. The fleets and armies that fought for the Dutch in the decades-long war against Spain included numerous foreigners, largely drawn from countries in northwestern Europe. Likewise, many settlers of Dutch colonies were born in other parts of Europe or the New World.
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I learned a lot...
- By Jon lanģley on 01-04-22
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The Dutch Moment
- War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World
- Narrated by: Fred Filbrich
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 15-10-19
- Language: English
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A Warrior Dynasty
- The Rise and Fall of Sweden as a Military Superpower 1611-1721
- By: Henrik O. Lunde
- Narrated by: Mark Ashby
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook examines the meteoric rise of Sweden as the pre-eminent military power in Europe during the Thirty Years War during the 1600s, and then follows its line of warrior kings into the next century until the Swedes finally meet their demise, in an overreach into the vastness of Russia. A small Scandinavian nation, with at most one and a half million people and scant internal resources of its own, there was small logic to how Sweden could become the dominant power on the Continent.
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A Warrior Dynasty
- The Rise and Fall of Sweden as a Military Superpower 1611-1721
- Narrated by: Mark Ashby
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 24-12-14
- Language: English
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The Jamestown Brides
- By: Jennifer Potter
- Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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In 1621, 57 women undertook a three-month journey to Jamestown after responding to an advert placed by the Virginia Company, looking for wives for its tobacco planters in the New Colony. They travelled of their own free will, but the Company was effectively selling them at a profit, having set a bride price of 150lbs of tobacco for each woman. But what did the women want? Why did they make the perilous Atlantic crossing to a dangerous land, where six out of seven European settlers died within a few years?
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Interesting
- By Kath on 27-10-20
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The Jamestown Brides
- Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 06-02-19
- Language: English
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Hoax
- The Catholic Plot That Never Was
- By: Victor Stater
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
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In 1678, a handful of perjurers claimed that the Catholics of England planned to assassinate the king. Men like the "Reverend Doctor" Titus Oates and "Captain" William Bedloe parlayed their fantastical tales of Irish ruffians, medical poisoners, and silver bullets into public adulation and government pensions. The result was the trial and execution of over a dozen innocent Catholics, and the imprisonment of many more, some of whom died in custody. Victor Stater examines the Popish Plot in full, arguing that it had a profound and lasting significance on British politics.
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The Dutch East India Company: A History from Beginning to End
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Bridger Conklin
- Length: 1 hr
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Once valued at close to seven trillion dollars by today’s standards, the Dutch East India Company, formed in 1602, became the world’s first multinational corporation. In the nearly 200-year reign of their empire at sea, the Dutch East India Company amassed unfathomable fortunes, laid the foundation of the modern globalized world, and built monopolies that controlled the economy of the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe and the East Indies.
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The Dutch East India Company: A History from Beginning to End
- Narrated by: Bridger Conklin
- Length: 1 hr
- Release date: 29-11-17
- Language: English
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