British Empire Memoir
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Broken Threads
- My Family from Empire to Independence
- By: Mishal Husain
- Narrated by: Mishal Husain
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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An extraordinary history of Mishal Husain’s four grandparents, whose lives were shaped by the tumultuous politics and prejudices of empire, war and partition. Through a narrative odyssey that traces the complexities of her own ancestry, Mishal Husain sheds incredible light on a landmark historical period. Mary, a devout Catholic of Anglo-Indian parentage, leaves a struggling family to train as a nurse. Tahirah was born to middle-class Muslim parents and grows up with an emphasis on education and aspiration.
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Interesting story told well
- By S Marchant on 20-12-24
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Broken Threads
- My Family from Empire to Independence
- Narrated by: Mishal Husain
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 06-06-24
- Language: English
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An extraordinary history of Mishal Husain’s four grandparents, whose lives were shaped by the tumultuous politics and prejudices of empire, war and partition.
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The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution and the Fate of the Empire
- The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
- By: Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 21 hrs and 5 mins
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The loss of America was a stunning and unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and political leaders in Britain must have been to blame, but were they? This intriguing audiobook makes a different argument. Weaving together the personal stories of ten prominent men historian Andrew O'Shaughnessy dispels the incompetence myth and uncovers the real reasons that rebellious colonials were able to achieve victory.
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British View
- By Manish on 02-05-19
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The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution and the Fate of the Empire
- The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 21 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 13-11-13
- Language: English
- The loss of America was a stunning and unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire....
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In Search of a Kingdom
- Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire
- By: Laurence Bergreen
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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In this grand and thrilling narrative, the acclaimed biographer of Magellan, Columbus, and Marco Polo brings alive the singular life and adventures of Sir Francis Drake, the pirate/explorer/admiral whose mastery of the seas during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I changed the course of history.
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Thoroughly enjoyable
- By Dylan Baynham on 14-12-24
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In Search of a Kingdom
- Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 16-03-21
- Language: English
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In this grand and thrilling narrative, the acclaimed biographer of Magellan, Columbus, and Marco Polo brings alive the singular life and adventures of Sir Francis Drake, the pirate/explorer/admiral whose mastery of the seas during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I changed....
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Blood, Fire and Gold
- The Story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici
- By: Estelle Paranque
- Narrated by: Anna Wilson-Jones
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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In 16th-century Europe, two women came to hold all the power, against all the odds. They were Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici. One a Virgin Queen who ruled her kingdom alone, and the other a clandestine leader who used her children to shape the dynasties of Europe, much has been written about these iconic women. But nothing has been said of their complicated relationship: 30 years of friendship, competition and conflict that changed the face of Europe.
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Interesting and well researched
- By Dora on 22-06-23
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Blood, Fire and Gold
- The Story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici
- Narrated by: Anna Wilson-Jones
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 30-06-22
- Language: English
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In 16th-century Europe, two women came to hold all the power, against all the odds. They were Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici....
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Gandhi, Smuts and Race in the British Empire
- Of Passive and Violent Resistance
- By: Peter Baxter
- Narrated by: Peter Baxter
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Towards the end of 1906, a meeting took place between two emerging giants of the age, Mohandas K. Gandhi and General Jan Christian Smuts. United under the same empire, but separated by distance and culture, Smuts was born in the Cape Colony, and Gandhi in Porbandar, a duchy of the Indian province of Gujarat. Both, however, went on to study law in Britain, and while developing a great admiration for the institutions of empire, each man also suffered his own particular crisis of faith.
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Gandhi, Smuts and Race in the British Empire
- Of Passive and Violent Resistance
- Narrated by: Peter Baxter
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 22-06-18
- Language: English
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Towards the end of 1906, a meeting took place between two emerging giants of the age, Mohandas K. Gandhi and General Jan Christian Smuts....
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The Grand Tour
- Letters from the British Empire Expedition 1922
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Fenella Woolgar
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
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In 1922 Agatha Christie set sail on a 10-month voyage around the British Empire with her husband as part of a trade mission to promote the forthcoming British Empire Exhibition. Leaving her two-year-old daughter behind with her sister, Agatha set sail at the end of January and did not return until December, but she kept up a detailed weekly correspondence with her mother, describing in detail the exotic places and people she encountered as the mission travelled through South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii and Canada.
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The Grand Tour
- Letters from the British Empire Expedition 1922
- Narrated by: Fenella Woolgar
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 23-06-22
- Language: English
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Unpublished for 90 years, Agatha Christie’s extensive and evocative letters from her year-long round-the-world trip to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and America as part of the British trade mission for the famous 1924 Empire Exhibition....
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Imperial Intimacies
- A Tale of Two Islands
- By: Hazel V. Carby
- Narrated by: Hazel V. Carby
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
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“Where are you from?” was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl in post-war London. One of the so-called brown babies of the Windrush generation, born to a Jamaican father and Welsh mother, Carby’s place in her home, her neighbourhood, and her country of birth was always in doubt.
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Imperial Intimacies
- A Tale of Two Islands
- Narrated by: Hazel V. Carby
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 07-12-21
- Language: English
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“Where are you from?” was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl in post-war London. One of the so-called brown babies of the Windrush generation, born to a Jamaican father and Welsh mother....
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