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The Tudors: A Captivating Guide to the History of England from Henry VII to Elizabeth I
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Desmond Manny
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
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Five Tudor monarchs sat on the throne of England and Ireland from 1485 to 1603. The family earned their royal rights through strategic planning and battlefield prowess, and kept them because of intellect, strength, and sheer determination. The Tudors, one of England’s most powerful and famous royal dynasties, knitted together a fragmented and small island nation that became one of the world’s financial, colonial, and technological superpowers.
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Its good to be a kind.
- By Jasmine Norton on 16-10-18
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The Tudors: A Captivating Guide to the History of England from Henry VII to Elizabeth I
- Narrated by: Desmond Manny
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 10-10-18
- Language: English
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The Sack of Rome
- By: E.R. Chamberlin
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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In the early morning of 6 May, 1527, the 20,000 starving, unpaid troops of Emperor Charles V began their assault on the great walls of Rome. After only a few hours they had overcome the barricades; the city into which they streamed was now in their grip. This uncontrollable force of German landsknechts, Spanish soldiers, and Italian mercenaries showed no mercy as they plundered, raped, and slayed their way through the holy city.
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The Sack of Rome
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 07-02-23
- Language: English
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Cryptic
- From Voynich to the Angel Diaries, the Story of the World's Mysterious Manuscripts
- By: Garry J. Shaw
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Books can change the world. They can influence, entertain, transport, and enlighten. But across the centuries, authors have disguised their work with codes and ciphers, secret scripts and magical signs. What made these authors decide to keep their writings secret? What were they trying to hide?
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Cryptic
- From Voynich to the Angel Diaries, the Story of the World's Mysterious Manuscripts
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 13-01-26
- Language: English
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Magus
- The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa
- By: Anthony Grafton
- Narrated by: Nick Pearse
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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At the heart of the extraordinary ferment of the High Renaissance stood a distinctive, strange and beguiling figure: the magus. An unstable mix of scientist, bibliophile, engineer, fabulist and fraud, the magus ushered in modern physics and chemistry while also working on everything from secret codes to siege engines to magic tricks. Anthony Grafton's wonderfully original book discusses the careers of men who somehow managed to be both figures of startling genius and - by some measures - credulous or worse.
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Magus
- The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa
- Narrated by: Nick Pearse
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 22-02-24
- Language: English
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How to Be a Renaissance Woman
- The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity
- By: Jill Burke
- Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Beauty, make-up, art, power: How to Be a Renaissance Woman presents an alternative history of this period as told by the women behind the paintings, providing a window into their often overlooked or silenced lives. Can the pressures women feel to look good be traced back to the sixteenth century?...
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How to Be a Renaissance Woman
- The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity
- Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 09-07-24
- Language: English
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Tigress Of Forli
- The Life of Caterina Sforza
- By: Elizabeth Lev
- Narrated by: Daphne Kouma
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Bloomsbury presents Tigress of Forli by Elizabeth Lev, read by Daphne Kouma. If I were to write the story of my life it would shock the world', Caterina Sforza, 1463-1509. As action packed as as a Game of Thrones novel, the complete life of one of Italy's most fearless women. Between her birth...
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Tigress Of Forli
- The Life of Caterina Sforza
- Narrated by: Daphne Kouma
- Series: Great Lives
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 26-05-26
- Language: English
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Florence: The Fascinating History of Tuscany’s Greatest City
- By: Kelly Mass
- Narrated by: Doug Greene
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Florence was a major center of middle ages European trade and banking, and also one of the most affluent cities in the world at the time. A lot of academics believe it was the beginning of the Renaissance, and it has been called "The Athens of the Middle Ages". Periods of supremacy by the strong Medici family, and also several spiritual and republican transformations, have marked the nation's unpredictable political history. The city was the capital of the Kingdom of Italy from 1865 to 1871 (developed in 1861).
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Florence: The Fascinating History of Tuscany’s Greatest City
- Narrated by: Doug Greene
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Release date: 01-04-22
- Language: English
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The Prince Who Would Be King
- The Life and Death of Henry Stuart
- By: Sarah Fraser
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Henry Stuart’s life is the last great forgotten Jacobean tale. Shadowed by the gravity of the Thirty Years’ War and the huge changes taking place across Europe in seventeenth-century society, economy, politics and empire, his life was visually and verbally gorgeous. NOW THE SUBJECT OF BBC2...
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Well written biography of a great Prince
- By CATRIONA SYME on 08-09-21
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The Prince Who Would Be King
- The Life and Death of Henry Stuart
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 04-05-17
- Language: English
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Virtue Politics
- Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy
- By: James Hankins
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 23 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Convulsed by a civilizational crisis, the great thinkers of the Renaissance set out to reconceive the nature of society. Corrupt and reckless tyrants sowing discord and ruling through fear; elites who prized wealth and status over the common good; military leaders waging endless wars. Their solution was simple and radical. They would rebuild their city, and their civilization, by transforming the moral character of its citizens. Soulcraft, they believed, was a precondition of successful statecraft.
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Virtue Politics
- Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 23 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 28-09-21
- Language: English
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This Earthly Globe
- A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World
- By: Andrea Di Robilant
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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During the Age of Discovery a little-known public servant in the Venetian government, Giovambattista Ramusio, anonymously assembled and edited three volumes—over two million words—that revealed our world as never before. It was, to use a current expression, the biggest Wikileak of the Renaissance. In an enthralling narrative, Andrea di Robilant brings to vivid life the man who used all his political skill, along with the help of conniving diplomats and spies, to ferret out a remarkable collection of journals, private letters and classified government reports.
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This Earthly Globe
- A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 15-08-24
- Language: English
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Out of Italy
- Two Centuries of World Domination and Demise
- By: Fernand Braudel, Siân Reynolds - translator
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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In the fifteenth century, even before the city states of the Apennine Peninsula began to coalesce into what would become, several centuries later, a nation, "Italy" exerted enormous influence over all of Europe and throughout the Mediterranean. Viewing the Italy (the many Italies?) of that time through the lens of today allows us to gather a fragmented, multi-faceted, and seemingly contradictory history into a single unifying narrative that speaks to our current reality as much as it does to a specific historical period. This is what the French historian Fernand Braudel achieves here.
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Why is this the only Braudel on Audible?
- By JCM on 13-10-24
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Out of Italy
- Two Centuries of World Domination and Demise
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 07-06-22
- Language: English
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The Dreamer
- Highland Treasure Trilogy Series, Book 1
- By: May McGoldrick
- Narrated by: Ruth Urquhart
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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When her late father was branded a traitor to the king, Catherine Percy found sanctuary in Scotland. But a case of mistaken identity put her in a compromising position with the Highland earl sworn to protect her. Marriage to him saved her reputation, but nothing could save her from the stormy passion that bent her innocent body to his will - and shattered his last defense. The acclaimed author of The Thistle and the Rose presents an exciting new trilogy. Three sisters each hold a clue to their family's treasure - and the key to the hearts of three Highland warriors....
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The Dreamer
- Highland Treasure Trilogy Series, Book 1
- Narrated by: Ruth Urquhart
- Series: Highland Treasure Trilogy , Book 1
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 25-12-18
- Language: English
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The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
- Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library
- By: Edward Wilson-Lee
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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WINNER OF THE 2019 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE The fascinating history of Christopher Columbus’s illegitimate son Hernando, guardian of his father’s flame, courtier, bibliophile and catalogue supreme, whose travels took him to the heart of 16th-century Europe’ Honor Clerk, Spectator, Books...
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The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
- Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 17-05-18
- Language: English
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The Reputation and Legacy of Henry IV
- Ian Mortimer Keynote Speeches
- By: Ian Mortimer
- Narrated by: Ian Mortimer
- Length: 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Henry IV is not famous except for the plays that bear his name: He is not even a "much-maligned" king. He is normally overshadowed by his far more famous son, Henry V, despite his many achievements. Shakespeare is partly to blame for Henry's diminution and his son's exaggerated stature but not completely; we just don't know what to make of a man who took the throne from the rightful king.
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The Reputation and Legacy of Henry IV
- Ian Mortimer Keynote Speeches
- Narrated by: Ian Mortimer
- Length: 56 mins
- Release date: 12-04-22
- Language: English
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The Voynich Manuscript
- The History of the Mysterious Renaissance Codex That Has Never Been Deciphered
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Bill Hare
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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For as long as language and communication have existed, humans have invented ways to mask their messages from prying eyes. One could be forgiven for assuming there are no ciphers left unsolved. On the contrary, a diverse array of both ancient and modern cryptographic challenges, which have stumped even the most seasoned code crackers of today, exist, and may exist for generations to come. Among the most famous of these memorandums is a 600-year-old document that continues to mystify: the Voynich Manuscript.
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The Voynich Manuscript
- The History of the Mysterious Renaissance Codex That Has Never Been Deciphered
- Narrated by: Bill Hare
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
- Release date: 15-09-17
- Language: English
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The Republic of Venice and Republic of Genoa: The History of the Italian Rivals and Their Mediterranean Empires
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Although Genoa cannot compete in the popular imagination with some of Italy’s more famous cities, this busy port town perched above the sea once boasted a powerful empire that rivaled that of Venice. It also lasted for roughly the same time period, rising in the early Middle Ages and coming to an end at the hands of Napoleon Bonaparte near the end of the 18th century. Today, historians are starting to correct the imbalance that has focused on Venice, Florence, and Rome, and new histories are gradually introducing Genoa to the world, even as much remains to be uncovered.
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Excellent summary of Venetian and Genoese history
- By Peter Robertson on 27-04-22
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The Republic of Venice and Republic of Genoa: The History of the Italian Rivals and Their Mediterranean Empires
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 30-05-19
- Language: English
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Age of Discovery
- Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance
- By: Ian Goldin, Chris Kutarna
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Age of Discovery explores a world on the brink of a new Renaissance and asks: how do we share more widely the benefits of unprecedented progress? How do we endure the inevitable tumult generated by accelerating change? How do we each thrive through this tangled, uncertain time? From gains in health, education, wealth and technology to crises of conflict, disease and mass migration, the similarities between today's world and that of the 15th century are both striking and prophetic: we have been here before.
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Important and thought-provoking book
- By Amazon Customer on 28-07-16
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Age of Discovery
- Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 21-07-16
- Language: English
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Thirty Years' War
- A History from Beginning to End
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 1 min
- Unabridged
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If you had to name the most destructive conflicts in human history, you likely wouldn’t put the Thirty Years’ War near the top of that list, but in fact, this conflict resulted in more than eight million fatalities throughout Europe. It resulted in widespread destruction, and it bankrupted the majority of the powers involved. For such a destructive war, the Thirty Years’ War is not well-known, and yet it changed the geopolitical face of Europe as well as the role of religion and nation-states in society. This audiobook tells the compelling story of the Thirty Years’ War.
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Thirty Years' War
- A History from Beginning to End
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 1 min
- Release date: 14-01-22
- Language: English
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Beatrice's Last Smile
- By: Mark Gregory Pegg
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 21 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Mark Gregory Pegg’s history of the Middle Ages opens and closes with martyrdom, the first that of a young Roman mother in a North African amphitheater in 203 and the second a French girl burned to death beside the Seine in 1431. Both Vibia Perpetua and Jeanne la Pucelle died for their Christian beliefs, yet that for which they willingly sacrificed their lives connects and separates them. Both were divinely inspired, but one believed her deity shared the universe with other gods, and the other knew that her Creator ruled heaven and earth.
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A compelling listen
- By Christine on 31-07-25
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Beatrice's Last Smile
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 21 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 15-08-23
- Language: English
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Mary Boleyn
- The True Story of Henry VIII's Favourite Mistress
- By: Josephine Wilkinson
- Narrated by: Debra Burton
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Mary Boleyn, ‘the infamous other Boleyn girl’, began her court career as the mistress of the king of France. François I of France would later call her ‘The Great Prostitute’ and the slur stuck. Mary would emerge the sole survivor of a family torn apart by lust and ambition, and it is in Mary and her progeny that the Boleyn legacy rests.
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Bad book
- By Anonymous on 06-06-25
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Mary Boleyn
- The True Story of Henry VIII's Favourite Mistress
- Narrated by: Debra Burton
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 20-01-14
- Language: English
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