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  • Killers of the King cover art

    • Killers of the King

    • 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 69 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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    • Devil-Land

    • England Under Siege, 1588-1688
    • By: Clare Jackson
    • Narrated by: Emma Gregory
    • Length: 24 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 21-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings

    • Clare Jackson's dazzling original account of English history's most turbulent and radical era tells the story of a nation in a state of near continual crisis....

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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
    • Release date: 12-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In the early 17th century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a novel....

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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
    • Release date: 23-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • 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....

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    • Providence Lost

    • The Rise and Fall of Cromwell's Protectorate
    • By: Paul Lay
    • Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 26-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 78 ratings

    • England, 1651. Oliver Cromwell has defeated his royalist opponents in two civil wars, executed the Stuart King Charles I, laid waste to Ireland, and crushed the late king's son and his Scottish allies....

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    • Under the Black Flag

    • The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
    • By: David Cordingly
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 29-11-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • As he explodes many accepted pirate myths (i.e. "walking the plank" is pure fiction), Cordingly replaces them with a truth that is more complex and often bloodier....

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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
    • Release date: 21-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • On fire for God - a sweeping history of puritanism in England and America....

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    • Charles I: An Abbreviated Life

    • Penguin Monarchs, Book 4
    • By: Mark Kishlansky
    • Narrated by: John Sackville
    • Series: Penguin Monarchs
    • Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 28-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings

    • A remarkable portrait of one of the most talented, thoughtful, loyal, moral, artistically alert and yet, somehow, disastrous of all this country's rulers....

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    • Lady Bette and the Murder of Mr Thynn

    • By: N. A. Pickford
    • Narrated by: Katie Scarfe
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 13-03-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Lady Bette, the 14-year-old heiress to the vast Northumberland estates, becomes the victim of a plot by her grandmother to marry her to the dissident fortune-hunter Thomas Thynn....

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  • The East India Company: A History From Beginning to End cover art

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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
    • Release date: 07-11-24
    • Language: English
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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.

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  • The Dark Side of the Enlightenment cover art

    • The Dark Side of the Enlightenment

    • Wizards, Alchemists, and Spiritual Seekers in the Age of Reason
    • By: John V. Fleming
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
    • Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 13-11-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Why spiritual and supernatural yearnings, even investigations into the occult, flourished in the era of rationalist philosophy.....

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    • Mayflower

    • A History from Beginning to End
    • By: Hourly History
    • Narrated by: Jimmy Kieffer
    • Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
    • Release date: 15-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • The story of the Mayflower is one of adventure, courage, and destiny. Leaving England in September of 1620, the ship carried 102 English Separatists to a new life, one that came with the freedom to practice their religious beliefs as they saw fit....

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    • The Favourite

    • By: Ophelia Field
    • Narrated by: Natalie Boscombe
    • Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 34 ratings

    • This biography brings Sarah Churchill's own voice, passionate and intelligent, back to life and casts a critical eye over images of the Duchess handed down through art, history and literature....

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    • The Pirate Hunter

    • By: Richard Zacks
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 19-03-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • Captain Kidd has gone down in history as America's most ruthless buccaneer....

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    • The Age of Intoxication

    • Origins of the Global Drug Trade
    • By: Benjamin Breen
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 27-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • In The Age of Intoxication, Benjamin Breen offers a window into a time when drugs were not yet separated into categories - illicit and licit, recreational and medicinal, modern and traditional - and there was no barrier between the drug dealer and the pharmacist....

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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
    • Release date: 13-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

    • During the long 18th century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. Author Jürgen Osterhammel tells the story of the European Enlightenment's nuanced encounter with the great civilizations of the East....

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    • Hoax

    • The Catholic Plot That Never Was
    • By: Victor Stater
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 13-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • In 1678, a handful of perjurers claimed that the Catholics of England planned to assassinate the king. 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 Moment

    • War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World
    • By: Wim Klooster
    • Narrated by: Fred Filbrich
    • Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 15-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

    • 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....

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