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    • A Social History
    • By: Elizabeth Norton
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Dixon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.3 out of 5 stars 713 ratings
    • The Tudor period conjures up images of queens and noblewomen in elaborate court dress, of palace intrigue and dramatic politics....

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    • The True Life of Mary Stuart
    • By: John Guy
    • Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
    • Length: 25 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.3 out of 5 stars 352 ratings
    • In the first full-scale biography of Mary Stuart in more than 30 years, John Guy creates an intimate and absorbing portrait of one of history's most famous women, depicting her world and her place in the sweep of history with stunning immediacy....

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    • Empress, Queen, Warrior
    • By: Catherine Hanley
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.6 out of 5 stars 219 ratings
    • A life of Matilda - empress, skilled military leader, and one of the greatest figures of the English Middle Ages....

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    • The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses
    • By: Sarah Gristwood
    • Narrated by: Corrie James
    • Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.6 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • To contemporaries, the Wars of the Roses were known collectively as a "cousins' war." The series of dynastic conflicts that tore apart the ruling Plantagenet family in 15th-century England was truly a domestic drama, as fraught and intimate as any family feud before or since....

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    • The Great Fight to Win the Vote
    • By: Elaine Weiss
    • Narrated by: Elaine Weiss, Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 16 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 306 ratings
    • Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five states have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, 12 have rejected or refused to vote, and one last state is needed. It all comes down to Tennessee, the moment of truth for the suffragists, after a seven-decade crusade....

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    • The Life & Tragedy of the Prince Regent's Daughter
    • By: Anne M. Stott
    • Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • As the only child of the Prince Regent and Caroline of Brunswick, Princess Charlotte of Wales (1796-1817) was the heiress presumptive to the throne....

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    • How the Katharine Gibbs School Revolutionized the American Workplace for Women
    • By: Vanda Krefft
    • Narrated by: Eliza Foss
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A fun and fascinating social history of the famed Katharine Gibbs School, which from the 1910s to the 1960s, trained women for executive secretary positions but surreptitiously was instilling the self-confidence and strategic know-how necessary for them to claim equality, power, and authority.

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    • Elizabeth I, Thomas Seymour, and the Making of a Virgin Queen
    • By: Elizabeth Norton
    • Narrated by: Sarah Nichols
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 01-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.3 out of 5 stars 430 ratings
    • A power-hungry courtier and an impressionable young princess: The Tudor court had never been more perilous for the young Elizabeth, where rumors had the power to determine her fate....

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    • Portrait of a Woman
    • By: Robert K. Massie
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Series: The Romanovs
    • Length: 23 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,598 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 Introduction of Coal into Victorian Homes Changed Everything
    • By: Ruth Goodman
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 11-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.6 out of 5 stars 125 ratings
    • "The queen of living history" (Lucy Worsley) returns with an immersive account of how English women sparked a worldwide revolution - from their own kitchens....

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    • A Life
    • By: A. N. Wilson
    • Narrated by: Clive Chafer
    • Length: 21 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.3 out of 5 stars 215 ratings
    • Acclaimed historian A. N. Wilson gives a sweeping, definitive biography of one of the most recognizable, yet enigmatic monarchs of all time....

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    • How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better
    • By: Tyler Cowen
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.1 out of 5 stars 126 ratings
    • America has been through the biggest financial crisis since the great Depression, unemployment numbers are frightening, median wages have been flat since the 1970s....

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    • Governor of the Netherlands and Early 16th-Century Europe's Greatest Diplomat
    • By: Rozsa Gaston
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.2 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • For fans of ALISON WEIR and PHILIPPA GREGORY ◆ FIRST PLACE WINNER - 2023 CHAUCER Book Awards - Early Historical Fiction ◆ WINNER - 2023 READERS...

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    • The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens
    • By: Nicola Clark
    • Narrated by: Nicola Clark, Karen Cass
    • Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.6 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • Every Tudor Queen had ladies-in-waiting. They were her confidantes and her chaperones. Only the Queen's ladies had the right to enter her most private chambers, spending hours helping her to get dressed and undressed, caring for her clothes and jewels, listening to her secrets.

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    • Queen of the Iceni (Women of War, Book 1)
    • By: History Nerds
    • Narrated by: Ailish Jeffers
    • Series: Women of War, Book 1
    • Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-23
    • Language: English
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    • This short and concise book offers a compelling glimpse into the remarkable life of a fearless leader who defied the norms of her time....

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    • Queen Elizabeth I and the Wars of Religion
    • By: Susan Ronald
    • Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.3 out of 5 stars 287 ratings
    • Acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald delivers a stunning account of Elizabeth I that focuses on her role in the Wars of Religion - the battle between Protestantism and Catholicism that tore Europe apart in the sixteenth century....

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    • Great Depression Era Emotional Drama of Family Ties and Survival, Coming of Age Romance, Multicultural Relationships
    • By: TAMMY LOCKAMY
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.9 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • THE RETURN OF MARY After fourteen exceptionally long years, Mary Bentley, who was missing since the age of five has at last been found by her mum ...

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    • The True Story of the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II
    • By: William Stevenson
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Camm
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.1 out of 5 stars 394 ratings
    • A rousing tale of espionage and unsung valor, this is the captivating true story of Vera Atkins, Great Britain's spymistress from the age of 25....

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