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    • The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
    • By: William Dalrymple
    • Narrated by: Sid Sagar
    • Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 17-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,162 ratings
    • The Anarchy tells the remarkable story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously unregulated private company....

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    • By: Peter FitzSimons
    • Narrated by: Michael Carman
    • Length: 22 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 30-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 464 ratings
    • The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before. Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti and take them to the West Indies, the Bounty's crew found themselves in a tropical paradise. Five months later, they did not want to leave.

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    • Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
    • By: Colin Woodard
    • Narrated by: Lewis Grenville
    • Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 14-08-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 539 ratings
    • The untold story of a heroic band of Caribbean pirates whose defiance of imperial rule inspired revolt in colonial outposts across the world....

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    • HMS Hermione and the Royal Navy’s Revenge
    • By: Angus Konstam
    • Narrated by: Sid Sagar
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 29-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Mutiny on the Spanish Main tells the dramatic story of HMS Hermione, a British frigate which, in 1797, was the site of the bloodiest mutiny in British naval history, which saw the death of her captain and many of her officers....

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    • The Greatest Siege in British History
    • By: Roy Adkins, Lesley Adkins
    • Narrated by: John Telfer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • For over three and a half years, from 1779 to 1783, the tiny territory of Gibraltar was besieged and blockaded, on land and at sea, by the overwhelming forces of Spain and France....

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    • By: Liza Picard
    • Narrated by: Fiona Shaw
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • Like its popular and acclaimed predecessor, Restoration London, this book is the result of the author's passionate interest in the practical details of the everyday life of our ancestors....

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    • 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 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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    • Portrait of a Woman
    • By: Robert K. Massie
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Series: The Romanovs
    • Length: 23 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 221 ratings
    • Robert K. Massie returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became Catherine the Great. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself into empress of Russia by sheer determination....

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    • From Their First Rise and Settlement in the Island of Providence, to the Present Time
    • By: Daniel Defoe
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 15-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • This work is the prime source for the biographies of many well-known pirates of that era and shaped the popular notions about pirates of the day....

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    • By: Amanda Foreman
    • Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
    • Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • Lady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her day....

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    • The History of the French Revolution
    • By: Jeremy D. Popkin
    • Narrated by: Pete Cross, Jeremy D. Popkin
    • Length: 21 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the listener in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society....

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    • A Military History
    • By: Dennis Showalter
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Frederick the Great is one of history's most important leaders. Famed for his military successes and domestic reforms, his campaigns were a watershed in the history of Europe, securing Prussia's place as a continental power and inaugurating a new pattern of total war....

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    • 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris
    • By: Colin Jones
    • Narrated by: Sasha Higgins
    • Length: 18 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 18-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • The day of 9 Thermidor is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At midnight, Maximilien Robespierre was planning to destroy one of the most dangerous plots that the Revolution had faced....

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    • 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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    • Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia
    • By: Michael Farquhar
    • Narrated by: Enn Reitel
    • Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Scandal! Intrigue! Cossacks! Here the world’s most engaging royal historian chronicles the world’s most fascinating imperial dynasty: the Romanovs, whose three-hundred-year reign was remarkable for its shocking violence, spectacular excess, and unimaginable venality....

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    • Banastre Tarleton and the British Legion
    • By: John Knight
    • Narrated by: Ian Putnam
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 28-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The British Legion was one of the most remarkable regiments, not only of the American Revolution, but of any war. A corps made up of American Loyalists, it saw its first action in New York and then engaged in almost every battle in the Southern colonies....

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    • How Younger Sons Made Their Way in Jane Austen's England
    • By: Rory Muir
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 23-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Historian Rory Muir weaves together the stories of many obscure and well-known young men of good family but small fortune, shedding light on an overlooked aspect of Regency society....

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