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  • Killers of the King cover art

    • Killers of the King

    • The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I
    • By: Charles Spencer
    • Narrated by: Richard Trinder
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings

    • January, 1649. After seven years of fighting in the bloodiest war in Britain’s history, Parliament faced a problem: what to do with a defeated king, a king who refused to surrender....

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    • Devil-Land

    • England Under Siege, 1588-1688
    • By: Clare Jackson
    • Narrated by: Emma Gregory
    • Length: 24 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 21-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings

    • Clare Jackson's dazzling original account of English history's most turbulent and radical era tells the story of a nation in a state of near continual crisis....

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    • Republic

    • Britain's Revolutionary Decade, 1649–1660
    • By: Alice Hunt
    • Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
    • Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 24-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • Events moved fast in the 1650s. Something cataclysmic happened every year, something that would thrust the newly formed republic, its people, and its eventual 'Lord Protector' Oliver Cromwell, in an entirely new direction.

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    • Restoration London

    • Everyday Life in the 1660s
    • By: Liza Picard
    • Narrated by: Sean Barrett
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 27-07-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • From poverty to pets, from medicine to magic, from slang to sex, from wallpaper to women's rights....

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    • Providence Lost

    • The Rise and Fall of Cromwell's Protectorate
    • By: Paul Lay
    • Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 26-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 78 ratings

    • England, 1651. Oliver Cromwell has defeated his royalist opponents in two civil wars, executed the Stuart King Charles I, laid waste to Ireland, and crushed the late king's son and his Scottish allies....

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    • The Man Who Invented Fiction

    • How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World
    • By: William Egginton
    • Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In the early 17th century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a novel....

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    • The Fall

    • Last Days of the English Republic
    • By: Henry Reece
    • Narrated by: Richard Trinder
    • Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 18-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • Why did England's one experiment in republican rule fail? In this fascinating history, Henry Reece explores the full story of the English republic's downfall.

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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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    • Lady Bette and the Murder of Mr Thynn

    • By: N. A. Pickford
    • Narrated by: Katie Scarfe
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 13-03-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Lady Bette, the 14-year-old heiress to the vast Northumberland estates, becomes the victim of a plot by her grandmother to marry her to the dissident fortune-hunter Thomas Thynn....

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    • 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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  • Charles I: An Abbreviated Life cover art

    • Charles I: An Abbreviated Life

    • Penguin Monarchs, Book 4
    • By: Mark Kishlansky
    • Narrated by: John Sackville
    • Series: Penguin Monarchs
    • Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 28-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings

    • A remarkable portrait of one of the most talented, thoughtful, loyal, moral, artistically alert and yet, somehow, disastrous of all this country's rulers....

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    • Hot Protestants

    • A History of Puritanism in England and America
    • By: Michael P. Winship
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 21-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • On fire for God - a sweeping history of puritanism in England and America....

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  • Oliver Cromwell: A Life from Beginning to End cover art

    • Oliver Cromwell: A Life from Beginning to End

    • By: Hourly History
    • Narrated by: William Irvine
    • Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
    • Release date: 22-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings

    • One of the most controversial figures in British history, Oliver Cromwell entered as an insignificant member of the English gentry and left it as the all-powerful Lord Protector....

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    • English Civil War: A History from Beginning to End

    • By: Hourly History
    • Narrated by: William Irvine
    • Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
    • Release date: 20-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 35 ratings

    • In 1642, King Charles I and the elected Parliament of England went to war over the future of the Stuart kingdom. Over the next nine years, three civil wars would be fought, devastating the populations of England, Scotland, and Ireland....

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    • Unfabling the East

    • The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia
    • By: Jürgen Osterhammel, Robert Savage - translator
    • Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
    • Length: 25 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 13-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

    • During the long 18th century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. Author Jürgen Osterhammel tells the story of the European Enlightenment's nuanced encounter with the great civilizations of the East....

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    • Viceroys

    • By: Christopher Lee
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 30-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings

    • Viceroys is the story of the British aristocracy sent to govern India during the reigns of five British monarchs. It is also the story of how the modern British identity was established....

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    • They Flew

    • A History of the Impossible
    • By: Carlos M. N. Eire
    • Narrated by: Emmanuel Chumaceiro
    • Length: 16 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 13-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era—tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft—even as skepticism, atheism, and empirical science were starting to supplant religious belief in the paranormal....

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    • The Dutch Moment

    • War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World
    • By: Wim Klooster
    • Narrated by: Fred Filbrich
    • Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 15-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

    • In The Dutch Moment, Wim Klooster shows how the Dutch built and eventually lost an Atlantic empire that stretched from the homeland in the United Provinces to the Hudson River and from Brazil and the Caribbean to the African Gold Coast....

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    • The Favourite

    • By: Ophelia Field
    • Narrated by: Natalie Boscombe
    • Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 34 ratings

    • This biography brings Sarah Churchill's own voice, passionate and intelligent, back to life and casts a critical eye over images of the Duchess handed down through art, history and literature....

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