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  • The Anarchy cover art

    • The Anarchy

    • The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
    • By: William Dalrymple
    • Narrated by: Sid Sagar
    • Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 17-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,151 ratings

    • The Anarchy tells the remarkable story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously unregulated private company....

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    • The Republic of Pirates

    • Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
    • By: Colin Woodard
    • Narrated by: Lewis Grenville
    • Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 14-08-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 539 ratings
    • The untold story of a heroic band of Caribbean pirates whose defiance of imperial rule inspired revolt in colonial outposts across the world....

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    • Mutiny on the Spanish Main

    • HMS Hermione and the Royal Navy’s Revenge
    • By: Angus Konstam
    • Narrated by: Sid Sagar
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 29-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings

    • Mutiny on the Spanish Main tells the dramatic story of HMS Hermione, a British frigate which, in 1797, was the site of the bloodiest mutiny in British naval history, which saw the death of her captain and many of her officers....

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    • Catherine the Great

    • Portrait of a Woman
    • By: Robert K. Massie
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Series: The Romanovs
    • Length: 23 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 221 ratings

    • Robert K. Massie returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became Catherine the Great. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself into empress of Russia by sheer determination....

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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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    • 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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    • A General History of the Pyrates

    • From Their First Rise and Settlement in the Island of Providence, to the Present Time
    • By: Daniel Defoe
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 15-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • This work is the prime source for the biographies of many well-known pirates of that era and shaped the popular notions about pirates of the day....

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    • The Duchess

    • By: Amanda Foreman
    • Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
    • Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • Lady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her day....

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    • A New World Begins

    • The History of the French Revolution
    • By: Jeremy D. Popkin
    • Narrated by: Pete Cross, Jeremy D. Popkin
    • Length: 21 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings

    • In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the listener in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society....

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    • London Journal

    • By: James Boswell
    • Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
    • Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 29-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

    • Between the years of 1762 and 1763, James Boswell kept a journal of his time in London. During his time, he met the renowned writer, moralist, and lexicographer Samuel Johnson, with whom Boswell would form a close relationship....

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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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    • Olaudah Equiano

    • The Life and Legacy of the Freed Slave Whose Autobiography Fueled Britain's Abolitionist Movement
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
    • Release date: 14-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • Olaudah Equiano challenged the image of the unconscious African beast with such intellect, philosophical refinement, public presence, and elegant writing that standard British perceptions began to unravel....

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    • The American Revolution

    • A Concise History from Colonial Rebellion to the War for Independence to the Constitution
    • By: Eric Porterfield
    • Narrated by: Randy McCarten
    • Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 31-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • The word ‘Independence’ is, quite frankly, a very common word today – celebrated, venerated, and metaphorically worn as a badge by every citizen of a democracy, such as the United States. And it has a deep association with the word ‘Freedom.’

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    • Queen Anne

    • By: Herbert Paul
    • Narrated by: Melissa Thompson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 13-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 2.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • An examination of the politics and social mores of Queen Anne's reign. The book includes sections on the War of Spanish succession, politics, literature, and society and manners....

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    • Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely

    • By: Andrew S. Curran
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 24-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings

    • Denis Diderot is often associated with the decades-long battle to bring the world's first comprehensive Encyclopedie into existence. But his most daring writing took place in the shadows....

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    • The Wandering Army

    • The Campaigns That Transformed the British Way of War
    • By: Huw J. Davies
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 18 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • A compelling history of the British Army in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—showing how the military gathered knowledge from campaigns across the globe....

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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 Great Divide

    • The Conflict Between Washington and Jefferson That Defined a Nation
    • By: Thomas Fleming
    • Narrated by: David Rapkin
    • Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 17-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Acclaimed historian Thomas Fleming examines how the differing characters and leadership styles of Washington and Jefferson shaped two opposing views of the presidency....

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