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In Nelson's Wake
- The Navy and the Napoleonic Wars
- By: James Davey
- Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle
- Length: 19 hrs and 42 mins
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Horatio Nelson's celebrated victory over the French at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 presented Britain with an unprecedented command of the seas. Yet the Royal Navy's role in the struggle against Napoleonic France was far from over. This groundbreaking book asserts that, contrary to the accepted notion that the Battle of Trafalgar essentially completed the Navy's task, the war at sea actually intensified over the next decade, ceasing only with Napoleon's final surrender.
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In Nelson's Wake
- The Navy and the Napoleonic Wars
- Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle
- Length: 19 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 10-02-26
- Language: English
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Unmentionable
- The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners
- By: Therese Oneill
- Narrated by: Betsy Foldes Meiman
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Have you ever wished you could live in an earlier, more romantic era? Ladies, welcome to the 19th century, where there's arsenic in your face cream, a pot of cold pee sits under your bed, and all of your underwear is crotchless. (Why? Shush, dear. A lady doesn't question.) Unmentionable is your...
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Sorry just too American kitsch
- By Mrs B on 31-07-17
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Unmentionable
- The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners
- Narrated by: Betsy Foldes Meiman
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 25-10-16
- Language: English
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Hegel: Philosophy in an Hour
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Philosophy for busy people. Listen to a succinct account of the philosophy of Hegel in just one hour. With Hegel philosophy became very difficult indeed – even the great man himself conceded that ‘only one man understands me, and even he does not.’ His dialectical method produced the most...
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Very bad
- By Anonymous on 25-11-25
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Hegel: Philosophy in an Hour
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
- Release date: 25-07-13
- Language: English
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This Dark Night
- The Life of Emily Brontë
- By: Deborah Lutz
- Narrated by: Christine Rendel
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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Drawing on a vast quantity of unexplored archival materials, Deborah reconstructs the texture of Emily Brontë's days, bringing us closer to one of the greatest and fiercest writers we have, by showing us her creative process and her confidence in her strange art. This book has much to reveal to readers of Wuthering Heights, as we accompany Emily around the wild moorlands she loved so much.
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This Dark Night
- The Life of Emily Brontë
- Narrated by: Christine Rendel
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 28-05-26
- Language: English
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Murder, Misadventure and Miserable Ends: Tales from a Colonial Coroner's Court
- By: Dr Catie Gilchrist
- Narrated by: Emma Grant Williams
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Murder, manslaughter, suicide, mishap - the very public business of determining death in colonial Sydney. Murder in colonial Sydney was a surprisingly rare occurrence, so when it did happen it caused a great sensation. People flocked to the scene of the crime, to the coroner's court and to the...
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A great insight in to life and death
- By Rose on 30-01-20
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Murder, Misadventure and Miserable Ends: Tales from a Colonial Coroner's Court
- Narrated by: Emma Grant Williams
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 03-04-19
- Language: English
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
- By: Thorstein Veblen
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
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In this, his best-known work, the controversial American economist and social critic Thorstein Veblen appropriates Darwin's theory of evolution to analyze the modern industrial system. For Veblen, the shallowness and superficiality observed in society results from the tendency to believe that true accomplishment lies in arriving at a condition of ostentatious wealth and status.
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Absolutely brilliant
- By Dr. Dylan Evans on 01-10-23
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 19-12-17
- Language: English
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The Weather Experiment
- By: Peter Moore
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance52
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In 1865 a broken Admiral Robert FitzRoy locked himself in his dressing room and cut his throat. His grand meteorological project had failed. Yet only a decade later, FitzRoy’s storm-warning system and ‘forecasts’ would return, the model for what we use today. In an age when a storm at sea was evidence of God’s great wrath, 19th-century meteorologists had to fight against convention and religious dogma.
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Fascinating
- By Sue156 on 16-03-16
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The Weather Experiment
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 07-05-15
- Language: English
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The King and the Catholics
- The Fight for Rights 1829
- By: Antonia Fraser
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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The story of Catholic Emancipation begins with the Anti-Catholic Gordon Riots in 1780, fuelled by a reduction in Penal Laws against Catholics harking back to the 16th century. Fifty years later, the passing of the Emancipation Bill was hailed as a 'bloodless revolution'. Yet, had the Irish Catholics been a 'millstone', or were they the prime movers?
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1829
- By Nina on 12-05-19
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The King and the Catholics
- The Fight for Rights 1829
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 29-11-18
- Language: English
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On the Shadow Tracks
- A Journey Through Occupied Myanmar
- By: Clare Hammond
- Narrated by: Clare Hammond
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2016, while working as a journalist in Yangon, Clare Hammond discovered an obscure map that showed a web of new railways spanning the length and breadth of the country - railways not shown on any other publicly available maps. She was determined to uncover the railways' origins, purpose, and most of all, the silence that surrounded them. She would spend three months travelling on these mysterious railways, and the next five years piecing their story together.
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Outstanding
- By Mr. A. on 25-06-24
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On the Shadow Tracks
- A Journey Through Occupied Myanmar
- Narrated by: Clare Hammond
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 06-06-24
- Language: English
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Two Idiots, One Crash
- The Wild Tale of Greed, Ego, and the Panic That Reshaped Wall Street (Crash Course: A History of Financial Folly)
- By: Rick Stupart
- Narrated by: Jacques Smith
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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In the high-stakes world of early 20th-century finance, two ambitious men thought they could outsmart the market—and almost brought down the entire U.S. economy in the process. Two Idiots, One Crash is the gripping, darkly funny, and surprisingly timely true story of Augustus Heinze and Charles Morse—two overconfident schemers who leveraged banks, backdoor deals, and bravado in a financial system built more on personality than policy. In 1907, their reckless gambles triggered a full-scale panic that toppled banks, destroyed fortunes, and sent Wall Street into chaos. With the U.S.
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Two Idiots, One Crash
- The Wild Tale of Greed, Ego, and the Panic That Reshaped Wall Street (Crash Course: A History of Financial Folly)
- Narrated by: Jacques Smith
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 24-02-26
- Language: English
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Bad Girls
- A History of Rebels and Renegades
- By: Caitlin Davies
- Narrated by: Rose Ackroyd
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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A history of a century of women, punishment and crime in HM Prison Holloway. Society has never known what to do with its rebellious women. Those who defied expectations about feminine behaviour have long been considered dangerous and unnatural, and ever since the Victorian era they have been removed from public view, locked up and often forgotten about. Many of these women ended up at HM Prison Holloway, the self-proclaimed 'terror to evil-doers'.
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Fascinating history of women in prison
- By Chris on 24-01-26
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Bad Girls
- A History of Rebels and Renegades
- Narrated by: Rose Ackroyd
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 08-03-18
- Language: English
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Mark Twain
- By: Ron Chernow
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 44 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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The #1 New York Times Bestseller One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2025 A Washington Post and New York Times Notable Book Named a Best Book of 2025 by TIME, The Guardian, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, and Kirkus Reviews “Comprehensive, enthralling . . . Mark Twain...
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Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 44 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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The Lion and the Dragon
- Britain and China: A History of Conflict
- By: Lawrence James
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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The Lion and The Dragon reveals the part that Britain played in the awakening of China, then covers relations between the two countries during the period when an aroused China did indeed shake the world. Lawrence James also follows the parallel trajectories of four competitive empires - the British, the Chinese, the Russian and the Japanese - during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and then the fortunes of a fifth imperial power, the United States.
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Superb!
- By Anonymous on 21-11-25
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The Lion and the Dragon
- Britain and China: A History of Conflict
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 03-08-23
- Language: English
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A Fate Worse than Hell
- American Prisoners of the Civil War
- By: W. Fitzhugh Brundage
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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It is newly estimated that 750,000 soldiers died in the American Civil War. But less well-known than the war’s death toll are the roughly 400,000 Union and Confederate troops who were captured and imprisoned. Many POWs died from starvation, dysentery, and exposure, and at the worst of the prison pens, more than 30,000 soldiers were caged in the equivalent of ten city blocks. Against the backdrop of a brutal internecine conflict, the Civil War’s prison camps were a harrowing milestone in the history of mass dehumanization.
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A Fate Worse than Hell
- American Prisoners of the Civil War
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 24-02-26
- Language: English
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Imperial Germany and War, 1871-1918
- Modern War Studies
- By: Daniel J. Hughes, Richard L. DiNardo
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 21 hrs and 6 mins
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Performance25
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Written by two of the world's leading authorities on the subject, Imperial Germany and War, 1871-1918 examines the most essential components of the imperial German military system, with an emphasis on such foundational areas as theory, doctrine, institutional structures, training, and the officer corps. In the period between 1871 and 1918, rapid technological development demanded considerable adaptation and change in military doctrine and planning.
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Brilliant study of the Prussian/German Army
- By Derrick on 04-04-25
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Imperial Germany and War, 1871-1918
- Modern War Studies
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 21 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 27-08-19
- Language: English
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Killigrew Clay
- By: Rowena Summers
- Narrated by: Anna Cordell
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
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Deep down she knew she was only dreaming, knew that whatever feelings she cherished for him could never be fully returned. After all, he was the heir to the biggest clay works in all of Cornwall, and she was but the daughter of one of their workmen. For just as an unexpected passion began to blossom between Morwen Tremayne and Ben Killigrew, the fates seemed determined to stifle its growth. A long, bitter struggle between owner and workforce brought about Charles Killigrew’s sudden illness, and with it Ben’s summons to the head of the family firm.
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Killigrew Clay
- Narrated by: Anna Cordell
- Series: Cornish Clay, Book 1
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 01-02-20
- Language: English
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Late Victorian Holocausts
- El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
- By: Mike Davis
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
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Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China, and Northeastern Brazil.
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Sounds grim, worth the time
- By L P on 20-08-25
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Late Victorian Holocausts
- El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 30-04-17
- Language: English
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The Year Without Summer
- 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History
- By: William K. Klingaman, Nicholas P. Klingaman
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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1816 was a remarkable year - mostly for the fact that there was no summer. As a result of a volcanic eruption at Mount Tambora in Indonesia, weather patterns were disrupted worldwide for months, allowing for excessive rain, frost, and snowfall through much of the Northeastern US and Europe in the summer of 1816.
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Not enough about volcanoes
- By james on 18-06-25
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The Year Without Summer
- 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 18-09-19
- Language: English
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American Republics
- A Continental History of the United States 1783-1850
- By: Alan Taylor
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 14 hrs and 42 mins
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In this beautifully written history of America’s formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young nation confidently marching to its continent-spanning destiny.
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All together now and it works
- By Amazon Customer on 25-05-21
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American Republics
- A Continental History of the United States 1783-1850
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 14 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 18-05-21
- Language: English
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Jack the Ripper
- The Scourge of London
- By: Hilary Brown, Go Entertain
- Narrated by: Tracey Norman
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Take a trip back in time to the foggy streets of Victorian London, where a madman stalks the night. Investigate the savage murders attributed to Jack the Ripper using all the evidence available, including letters purporting to be from the killer himself. This publication features up-to-date theories on the identity of the Whitechapel murderer, detailing all the major suspects.
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Not 2hat I expected
- By Micki Lou on 25-11-18
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Jack the Ripper
- The Scourge of London
- Narrated by: Tracey Norman
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
- Release date: 05-02-16
- Language: English
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