British History

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    • By: Robert Tombs
    • Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
    • Length: 45 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 23-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,262 ratings
    • The English have come a long way from those precarious days of invasion and conquest, with many spectacular changes of fortune....

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    • By: Andrew Marr
    • Narrated by: David Timson
    • Length: 29 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-16
    • Language: English
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    • A History of Modern Britain confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics....

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    • A History of England's Kings and Queens
    • By: David Mitchell
    • Narrated by: David Mitchell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 28-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4,748 ratings
    • In Unruly, David Mitchell explores how early England's monarchs, while acting as feared rulers firmly guiding their subjects' destinies, were in reality a bunch of lucky sods who were mostly as silly and weird in real life as they appear to us today in their portraits....

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    • By: Sean Lang
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 254 ratings
    • Putting history into a perspective, this is an engaging, entertaining and educational trip through time, packing in equal parts fun and facts....

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    • A History of the Beginnings of England
    • By: Marc Morris
    • Narrated by: Roy McMillan
    • Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 20-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 902 ratings
    • Sixteen hundred years ago, Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin. Into this violent and unstable world came foreign invaders from across the sea and established themselves as its new masters....

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    • At the Edge of the World, 3000 BC - AD 1603
    • By: Simon Schama
    • Narrated by: Timothy West
    • Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 27-04-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 455 ratings
    • To look back at the past is to understand the present....

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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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    • A New History of the British Monarchy from William the Conqueror to Charles III
    • By: Tracy Borman
    • Narrated by: Tracy Borman
    • Length: 20 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 18-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 79 ratings
    • An exploration of the history of the British monarchy from 1066 to the present day, now including a new chapter on King Charles III....

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    • How the British Navy Changed the Modern World
    • By: Arthur Herman
    • Narrated by: John Curless
    • Length: 29 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 19-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 327 ratings
    • The extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in history....

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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 829 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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    • A Forgotten History
    • By: David Olusoga
    • Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
    • Length: 24 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-16
    • Language: English
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    • David Olusoga's Black and British is a rich and revealing exploration of the extraordinarily long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa....

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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 98 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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    • The Definitive Guide
    • By: DK
    • Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
    • Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Discover the pivotal political, military, and cultural events that shaped British and Irish history, from Stone Age Britain to the present day, in this revised and updated book....

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    • A History of the English Speaking Peoples, Volume I
    • By: Sir Winston Churchill
    • Narrated by: Christian Rodska
    • Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 14-04-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 262 ratings
    • The English-speaking peoples comprise perhaps the greatest number of human beings sharing a common language in the world today....

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    • By: Steve Wiegand
    • Narrated by: Al Kessel
    • Length: 19 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • The United States is undergoing a period of intense political and social change. From the rise of the Tea Party to social media's effect on American life and politics, this new edition fills in the gaps of this Nation's story....

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    • By: Bill Bryson
    • Narrated by: William Roberts
    • Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 26-12-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13,895 ratings
    • A Radio 4 Book Club Selection.

      A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's fascinating and humorous quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization....

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    • By: Simon Jenkins
    • Narrated by: Simon Jenkins
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • From the invaders of the dark ages to the aftermath of the coalition, one of Britain's most respected journalists, Simon Jenkins, weaves together a strong narrative with all the most important and interesting dates in a book that characteristically is as stylish as it is authoritative....

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