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    • By: Alison Weir
    • Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
    • Length: 25 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 810 ratings
    • This magnificent biography of Henry VIII is set against the cultural, social and political background of his court and the splendour of his many sumptuous palaces....

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    • The Wars of the Roses
    • By: Alison Weir
    • Narrated by: Maggie Mash
    • Length: 22 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 729 ratings
    • Lancater and York is a riveting account of the Wars of the Roses, from the beloved and best-selling historian Alison Weir....

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    • The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home
    • By: Alison O'Reilly
    • Narrated by: Amy Molloy
    • Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 01-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • In 1946, 26 year-old Bridget Dolan walked up the path to the front door of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home. Alone and pregnant, she was following in the footsteps of more than a century’s worth of lost souls....

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    • My Story and the Reality of Sinn Féin
    • By: Máiría Cahill
    • Narrated by: Máiría Cahill
    • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 28-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • Rough Beast is Máiría Cahill's harrowing story of her life and of what she went through at the hands of what is now Ireland’s largest and richest party....

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    • 1,000 Years of Royal Deaths
    • By: Suzie Edge
    • Narrated by: Suzie Edge
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 29-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 287 ratings
    • Medical historian Dr Suzie Edge examines 1,000 years of royal deaths to present a humorous deep-dive into the varied—and oft-gruesome—deaths of the king and queens of England and Scotland....

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    • The Dawn of Tudor England
    • By: Thomas Penn
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 277 ratings
    • A fresh look at the endlessly fascinating Tudors - the dramatic and overlooked story of Henry VII and his founding of the Tudor Dynasty....

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    • Portrait of a Love Affair
    • By: Gyles Brandreth
    • Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
    • Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • This is a story of the most well documented, most commented on love affair of our times....

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    • By: John Humphreys, Stuart Tootal
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 29-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Coinciding with the 80th anniversary of Operation MARKET GARDEN, The Last Para is be the final firsthand account of this legendary action, told with incredible honesty and irrepressible spirit.

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    • The Extraordinary Life and Times of Raine Spencer
    • By: Tina Gaudoin
    • Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 27-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • Debutante of the year. Able politician. Femme fatale. Just some of the many labels attached to the irrepressible, controversial Raine Spencer: Countess, socialite and stepmother to Diana, Princess of Wales. Three Times a Countess recounts Raine's compelling and glamorous life....

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    • By: Alison Weir
    • Narrated by: Maggie Mash
    • Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 14-11-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 188 ratings
    • Mary Boleyn was the mistress of two kings, Francois I of France and Henry VIII of England, and sister to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s second wife....

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    • By: Ronald Hutton
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • In this first volume in a pioneering account of Oliver Cromwell, Ronald Hutton provides a major new interpretation of one of the greatest figures in history....

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    • Tom Crean – Antarctic Survivor
    • By: Michael Smith
    • Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 196 ratings
    • Tom Crean was the farmer’s son from Kerry who sailed on three major expeditions to the unknown Antarctic over a century ago. He served with both Captain Robert Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton, spent longer on the ice than either and outlived them both....

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    • The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
    • By: Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
    • Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
    • Length: 26 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 28-03-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 363 ratings
    • J. Robert Oppenheimer, an iconic figure of the 20th century, was a brilliant physicist who led efforts to build an atomic bomb but later confronted the moral consequences of scientific progress....

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    • The Extraordinary Life of Britain’s Greatest Pilot
    • By: Paul Beaver
    • Narrated by: Steve John Shepherd, Paul Beaver
    • Length: 11 hrs
    • Release date: 08-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • The daring life story and astonishing adventures of Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown - Britain's greatest-ever pilot....

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    • The Troubles in My Home Place
    • By: Martin Doyle
    • Narrated by: Eugene O'Hare
    • Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • A personal history of the Troubles seen through the microcosm of a single rural parish, part of both the Linen Triangle–heartland of the North's defining industry–and the Murder Triangle–the Badlands roamed by the Glenanne gang of security forces colluding with loyalist paramilarites....

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    • Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy
    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice, and vicious cruelty - all have been associated with their name. And yet, paradoxically, this family lived when the Renaissance was coming into its full flowering in Italy....

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    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 24 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 376 ratings
    • Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us - an ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings....

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    • Brief Histories
    • By: Mike Ashley
    • Narrated by: Roger Davis
    • Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 28-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 168 ratings
    • Here is the whole of recorded British royal history, from the legendary King Alfred the Great onwards, including the monarchies of England, Scotland, Wales and the United Kingdom for over a thousand years...

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