16th Century

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    • The 16th-Century Contest That Shaped the Modern World
    • By: Roger Crowley
    • Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 18-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • The story of the 16th-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific.

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    • By: Susan Doran
    • Narrated by: Joanna Daniel
    • Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 23-06-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • This is the story of Elizabeth I's inner circle and the crucial human relationships which lay at the heart of her personal and political life....

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    • Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
    • By: Liza Picard
    • Narrated by: Liza Picard
    • Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 26-07-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Like its popular and acclaimed predecessors, Restoration London and Dr Johnson's London....

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    • A History of the English Reformation
    • By: Peter Marshall
    • Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
    • Length: 35 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 29-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Centuries on, what the Reformation was and what it accomplished remain deeply contentious. Peter Marshall's sweeping new history argues that 16th-century England was a society neither desperate for nor allergic to change, but one open to ideas of "reform" in various competing guises....

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    • 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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    • A Military History
    • By: William Urban
    • Narrated by: Brian Troxell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 22-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The Teutonic Knights were powerful and ferocious advocates of holy war. William Urban's narrative charts the rise and fall of the Order and, in an accessible and engaging style, throws light on a band of knights whose deeds and motives have long been misunderstood....

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    • By: Jillianne Hamilton
    • Narrated by: Stevie Zimmerman
    • Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 18-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This audiobook combines Jillianne Hamilton's sassy, fun, and snarky storytelling with one of history's most alluring eras. Focusing on the lives of the wives, this audiobook gives the six unfortunate queens the biography for which they almost certainly wouldn't have asked....

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    • By: John Guy
    • Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Nothing drove Henry VIII, England's wealthiest and most powerful king, more than producing a legitimate male heir and perpetuating his dynasty....

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    • The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World
    • By: Eric Metaxas
    • Narrated by: Eric Metaxas
    • Length: 20 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • From author Eric Metaxas comes a brilliant and inspiring biography of the most influential man in modern history, Martin Luther, in time for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation....

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    • Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the Conflicts That Continue to Shape Our World
    • By: Brad S. Gregory
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • On the 500th anniversary of the Reformation comes this compelling, illuminating, and expansive religious history that examines the complicated and unintended legacies of Martin Luther....

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    • The Reformation and Its Legacy
    • By: Diarmaid MacCulloch
    • Narrated by: Neil Scott-Barbour
    • Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 16-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • The most profound characteristic of Western Europe in the Middle Ages was its cultural and religious unity, a unity secured by a common alignment with the Pope in Rome....

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    • Mother of the Tudor Dynasty
    • By: Elizabeth Norton
    • Narrated by: Debra Burton
    • Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 20-01-14
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Born in the midst of the Wars of the Roses, Margaret Beaufort became the greatest heiress of her time....

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    • The Meaning of Machiavelli's Masterpiece
    • By: Maurizio Viroli
    • Narrated by: Chris Kayser
    • Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 27-10-13
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Overturning popular misconceptions and challenging scholarly consensus, Maurizio Viroli provides a fresh introduction to Machiavelli's The Prince....

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    • From Elizabeth of York to Elizabeth I
    • By: Amy Licence
    • Narrated by: Debra Burton
    • Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 20-01-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Illegitimate children, adulterous queens, impotent kings, and a whole dynasty resting on their shoulders....

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    • A History from Beginning to End
    • By: Hourly History
    • Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
    • Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-22
    • Language: English
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    • The Spanish Empire was the first truly global empire and the first to be described as one on which “the sun never sets.” It rapidly grew to become one of the largest and most powerful empires in the history of the world and brought us goods such as potatoes, chocolate....

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    • By: Neil MacGregor
    • Narrated by: Neil MacGregor
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 21-06-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • What was life like for Shakespeare's first audiences? In this fascinating series, Neil MacGregor attempts to answer these questions by examining 20 objects from that turbulent period....

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    • The Great Adventures of Gulbadan
    • By: Ruby Lal
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 26-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Situated in the early decades of the magnificent Mughal Empire, this first ever biography of Princess Gulbadan offers an enthralling portrait of a charismatic adventurer and unique pictures of the multicultural society in which she lived.

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    • By: Jeremy Black
    • Narrated by: Simon Barber
    • Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 29-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In England in the Age of Shakespeare, Jeremy Black takes readers on a tour of life in the streets, homes, farms, churches, and palaces of the Bard’s era....

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