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  • The Thirty Years War cover art

    • The Thirty Years War

    • Europe's Tragedy
    • By: Peter H. Wilson
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 33 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 33 ratings

    • The Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world....

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    • 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 69 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 5 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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    • Black Flags, Blue Waters

    • The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
    • By: Eric Jay Dolin
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 16-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings

    • Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic and surprising history of American piracy's "Golden Age" - spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s - when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond....

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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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    • 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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    • 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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 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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    • Under the Black Flag

    • The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
    • By: David Cordingly
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 29-11-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • As he explodes many accepted pirate myths (i.e. "walking the plank" is pure fiction), Cordingly replaces them with a truth that is more complex and often bloodier....

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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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    • The Pirate Hunter

    • By: Richard Zacks
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 19-03-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • Captain Kidd has gone down in history as America's most ruthless buccaneer....

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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 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 Enlightenment

    • And Why it Still Matters
    • By: Anthony Pagden
    • Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
    • Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 07-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • One of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world....

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    • 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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    • Steel Lobsters

    • Crown, Commonwealth, and the Last Knights in England
    • By: Myke Cole
    • Narrated by: Oliver Hembrough
    • Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-24
    • Language: English
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    • The 17th-century battlefield ushered in a new era, with formed musketeers and pistol-wielding cavalry gradually taking over from the knights and men-at-arms that had dominated the European battlefield. Based on a detailed study of the primary sources, Steel Lobsters tells the story.

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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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    • Mayflower

    • A History from Beginning to End
    • By: Hourly History
    • Narrated by: Jimmy Kieffer
    • Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
    • Release date: 15-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • The story of the Mayflower is one of adventure, courage, and destiny. Leaving England in September of 1620, the ship carried 102 English Separatists to a new life, one that came with the freedom to practice their religious beliefs as they saw fit....

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    • Hoax

    • The Catholic Plot That Never Was
    • By: Victor Stater
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 13-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • In 1678, a handful of perjurers claimed that the Catholics of England planned to assassinate the king. Victor Stater examines the Popish Plot in full, arguing that it had a profound and lasting significance on British politics....

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