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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 1,147 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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    • Mutiny on the Bounty

    • By: Peter FitzSimons
    • Narrated by: Michael Carman
    • Length: 22 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 30-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 452 ratings

    • The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before. Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti and take them to the West Indies, the Bounty's crew found themselves in a tropical paradise. Five months later, they did not want to leave.

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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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • Avengers of the New World

    • The Story of the Haitian Revolution
    • By: Laurent DuBois
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 25-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings

    • The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against their masters on Saint-Domingue, the most profitable colony in the 18th-century Atlantic world....

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    • From Conquest to Colony

    • Empire, Wealth, and Difference in Eighteenth-Century Brazil
    • By: Kirsten Schultz
    • Narrated by: Alex Picard
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 21-11-23
    • Language: English
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    • Kirsten Schultz provides a new history of Brazil's eighteenth century that foregrounds debates about wealth, difference, and governance....

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    • The Pirate Menace

    • Uncovering the Golden Age of Piracy
    • By: Angus Konstam
    • Narrated by: David Monteath
    • Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-24
    • Language: English
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    • The growth of piracy led to a major surge in attacks in the Caribbean and along North America’s Atlantic seaboard. With the fragile maritime economy of the Americas threatened with collapse, major ports were threatened and trade brought to a standstill, the British government finally declared war.

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  • Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American Independence cover art

    • Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American Independence

    • By: Harlow Giles Unger
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • From New York Times best-selling author and Founding Fathers' biographer Harlow Giles Unger comes the astonishing biography of the man whose pen set America ablaze, inspiring its revolution, and whose ideas about reason and religion continue to try men's souls....

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  • The Penguin Book of Pirates cover art

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    • Culloden

    • Scotland's Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire
    • By: Trevor Royle
    • Narrated by: Tim Bruce
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • The Battle of Culloden in 1746 has gone down in history as the last major battle fought on British soil....

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    • Marie Antoinette's Darkest Days

    • Prisoner No. 280 in the Conciergerie
    • By: Will Bashor
    • Narrated by: Aaron Killian
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 20-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • This compelling book begins on the 2nd of August 1793, the day Marie Antoinette was torn from her family's arms and escorted from the Temple to the Conciergerie, a fortress turned prison....

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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 HMS Wager

    • The History of the 18th Century's Most Famous Shipwreck and Mutiny
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Mark Norman
    • Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
    • Release date: 21-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Mention the 18th century Royal Navy and visions come to mind of swashbuckling sailors swinging from rope to rope....

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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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