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The Regency Years
- During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love, and Britain Becomes Modern
- By: Robert Morrison
- Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
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The Victorians are often credited with ushering in our current era, yet the seeds of change were planted in the years before. The Regency (1811-1820) began when the profligate Prince of Wales - the future King George IV - replaced his insane father, George III, as Britain's ruler. Around the regent surged a society steeped in contrasts: evangelicalism and hedonism, elegance and brutality, exuberance and despair. The arts flourished at this time with a showcase of extraordinary writers and painters such as Jane Austen, Lord Byron, the Shelleys, John Constable, and J. M. W. Turner.
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What a time!
- By BK on 06-18-19
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The Regency Years
- During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love, and Britain Becomes Modern
- Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 04-30-19
- Language: English
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The Victorians are often credited with ushering in our current era, yet the seeds of change were planted in the years before. The Regency (1811-1820) began when the profligate Prince of Wales - the future King George IV - replaced his insane father, George III, as Britain's ruler....
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Anne Boleyn
- By: Marie Louise Bruce
- Narrated by: Gemma Dawson
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
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Marie Louise Bruce's engrossing account of Anne Boleyn charts the rise and fall of this remarkable young woman through the course of her short life, from her early days at Hever Castle, to the luxurious courts of France and England, to her terrifying last days in the Tower of London. By utilizing a wealth of primary sources, including the love letters between Henry and Anne along with innumerable documents written by courtiers and ambassadors, Bruce brings to life the splendor of the Tudor court and its most famous king and queen.
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factually inaccurate
- By Marie A. on 12-02-22
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Anne Boleyn
- Narrated by: Gemma Dawson
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 11-02-21
- Language: English
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Marie Louise Bruce's engrossing account of Anne Boleyn charts the rise and fall of this remarkable young woman through the course of her short life, from her early days at Hever Castle, to the luxurious courts of France and England, to her terrifying last days in the Tower of London....
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Christmas in England
- Christmas Around the World
- By: Cheryl L. Enderlein
- Narrated by: anonymous
- Length: 7 mins
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A yule log burns brightly in a fireplace. Children pop open Christmas crackers to get a surprise. Families enjoy treats such as mince pie and plum pudding. These are the sights and sounds of Christmas in England. Come explore the many English traditions that bring people of this country together at Christmas.
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Christmas in England
- Christmas Around the World
- Narrated by: anonymous
- Length: 7 mins
- Release date: 02-23-22
- Language: English
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A yule log burns brightly in a fireplace. Children pop open Christmas crackers to get a surprise. Families enjoy treats such as mince pie and plum pudding. These are the sights and sounds of Christmas in England....
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The Finest Hours (Young Readers Edition)
- The True Story of a Heroic Sea Rescue (The True Rescue Series, Book 1)
- By: Michael J. Tougias, Casey Sherman
- Narrated by: Alex Boyles
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
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On the night of February 18, 1952, during one of the worst winter storms that New England has ever seen, two oil tankers just off the shore of Cape Cod were torn in half by the force of the storm. This middle-grade adaptation of an adult nonfiction book tells the story of the shipwreck and a harrowing Coast Guard rescue when four men in a tiny lifeboat overcame insurmountable odds and saved more than thirty stranded sailors.
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The Finest Hours (Young Readers Edition)
- The True Story of a Heroic Sea Rescue (The True Rescue Series, Book 1)
- Narrated by: Alex Boyles
- Series: True Rescue Series, Book 1
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 06-21-22
- Language: English
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On the night of February 18, 1952, during one of the worst winter storms that New England has ever seen, two oil tankers just off the shore of Cape Cod were torn in half by the force of the storm....
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Ladies-in-Waiting
- Women Who Served Anne Boleyn
- By: Sylvia Barbara Soberton
- Narrated by: Naomi Madelin
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
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The aspects of Anne Boleyn's life and death are fiercely debated by historians, yet her ladies-in-waiting remain an understudied topic. Much emphasis is usually put on Anne's relationships with the men in her life: her suitors, her royal husband, her father and brother, and her putative lovers who were executed on May 17, 1536. By concentrating on a previously neglected area of Anne Boleyn's female household, this book seeks to identify the women who served Anne and investigate what roles ladies-in-waiting played in this Queen's household.
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Inconsistently Researched
- By Marie A. on 05-01-23
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Ladies-in-Waiting
- Women Who Served Anne Boleyn
- Narrated by: Naomi Madelin
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 02-28-23
- Language: English
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The aspects of Anne Boleyn's life and death are fiercely debated by historians, yet her ladies-in-waiting remain an understudied topic....
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James and John
- A True Story of Prejudice and Murder
- By: Chris Bryant
- Narrated by: Chris Bryant
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
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They had nothing to expect from the mercy of the crown; their doom was sealed; no plea could be urged in extenuation of their crime, and they well knew that for them there was no hope in this world. When Charles Dickens wrote these tragic lines he was penning fact, not fiction. He had visited the condemned cells at the infamous prison at Newgate, where seventeen men who had been sentenced to death were awaiting news of their pleas for mercy. Two men were particularly striking: James Pratt and John Smith, who had been convicted of homosexuality.
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James and John
- A True Story of Prejudice and Murder
- Narrated by: Chris Bryant
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 02-15-24
- Language: English
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They had nothing to expect from the mercy of the crown; their doom was sealed; no plea could be urged in extenuation of their crime, and they well knew that for them there was no hope in this world. When Charles Dickens wrote these tragic lines he was penning fact, not fiction....
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Coming to England
- By: Floella Benjamin
- Narrated by: Baroness Floella Benjamin
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
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Floella Benjamin was just a young girl when she, her sister and two brothers arrived in England in 1960 to join their parents, whom they had not seen for 15 months. They had left their island home of Trinidad to make a new life in London—part of a whole generation of West Indians who were encouraged to move to Britain and help rebuild the country after the Second World War. Reunited with her mother, Floella was too overwhelmed at first to care about the cold weather and the noise and dirt from the traffic.
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Coming to England
- Narrated by: Baroness Floella Benjamin
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 06-09-22
- Language: English
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This is the incredible story of Floella's journey from Trinidad to London, as part of the Windrush generation, to the House of Lords....
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Coming to England
- An Inspiring True Story Celebrating the Windrush Generation
- By: Floella Benjamin
- Narrated by: Floella Benjamin
- Length: 8 mins
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Follow 10-year-old Floella as she and her family set sail from the Caribbean to a new life in London. Alone on a huge ship for two weeks, then tumbled into a cold and unfriendly London, coming to England wasn't at all what Floella had expected.... What will her new school be like? Will she meet the queen?
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Coming to England
- An Inspiring True Story Celebrating the Windrush Generation
- Narrated by: Floella Benjamin
- Length: 8 mins
- Release date: 09-30-21
- Language: English
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The inspiring true story of Baroness Floella Benjamin: from Trinidad, to London as part of the Windrush generation, to the House of Lords....
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September 1, 1939
- W. H. Auden and the Afterlife of a Poem
- By: Ian Sansom
- Narrated by: Ian Sansom
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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This is an audiobook about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change. More than a work of literary criticism or literary biography, it is a record of why and how we create and respond to great poetry. This an audiobook about a poet, W. H. Auden, a wunderkind, a victim-beneficiary of a literary cult of personality who became a scapegoat and a poet-expatriate largely excluded from British literary history because he left.
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If you care about Auden
- By Joseph on 11-14-21
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September 1, 1939
- W. H. Auden and the Afterlife of a Poem
- Narrated by: Ian Sansom
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 08-22-19
- Language: English
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This is an audiobook about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change. More than a work of literary criticism or literary biography, it is a record of why and how we create and respond to great poetry....
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Country Life
- A Story of Peaks and Troughs
- By: Giles Wood, Mary Killen
- Narrated by: Giles Wood, Mary Killen
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
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Former townies Giles and Mary swapped city life for rural Wiltshire over thirty years ago, and they've each embraced it in their own very different ways. Mary has happily traded sophisticated London salons for monthly lectures at the Farmers' Club, competitive school quizzes, church interactions and local Auction House sales. While Giles has immersed himself in the catastrophic consequences of conventional farming, his organic no-dig veg-patch, the increasingly disproportionate response by local landlords to harmless trespassers and the strange death of the village house martins.
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Country Life
- A Story of Peaks and Troughs
- Narrated by: Giles Wood, Mary Killen
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 04-27-23
- Language: English
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Former townies Giles and Mary swapped city life for rural Wiltshire over thirty years ago, and they've each embraced it in their own very different ways....
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Stolen History
- The Truth About the British Empire and How It Shaped Us
- By: Sathnam Sanghera
- Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
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You've probably heard the word 'empire' before. Perhaps because of the Roman empire. Or maybe even the Star Wars films. But what about the British Empire? Why don't we learn much about this? And what even is an empire, anyway? This book will answer all the important questions about Britain's imperial history. It will explore how Britain's empire once made it the most powerful nation on earth, and how it still affects our lives in many ways today - from the words we use, to the food we eat, the sports we play and even to every grown-up's fixation with a good cup of tea.
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Stolen History
- The Truth About the British Empire and How It Shaped Us
- Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 06-08-23
- Language: English
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You've probably heard the word 'empire' before. Perhaps because of the Roman empire. Or maybe even the Star Wars films....
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