Georgian History

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    • The immersive and brilliant historical guide to Regency Britain
    • By: Ian Mortimer
    • Narrated by: Ian Mortimer
    • Length: 17 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 14-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 371 ratings
    • In the latest volume of his celebrated series of Time Traveller's Guides - after the Middle Ages, Elizabethan England and Restoration Britain - Ian Mortimer turns to what is arguably the most loved period in British history: the Regency (a.k.a. Georgian England)....

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    • By: Hallie Rubenhold
    • Narrated by: Emily Pennant-Rea, Hallie Rubenhold
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 271 ratings
    • Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies, a salacious publication detailing the names and 'specialties' of the capital's prostitutes, eventually became one of the 18th century's most successful literary works as well as an essential accessory for any serious gentleman of pleasure....

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    • By: Sue Wilkes
    • Narrated by: Christine Rendel
    • Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Immerse yourself in the vanished world inhabited by Jane Austen's contemporaries. Packed with detail and anecdotes, this is an intimate exploration of how the middle and upper classes lived from 1775, the year of Austen's birth, to the coronation of George IV in 1820....

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    • The Life and Reign of Britain's Most Misunderstood Monarch
    • By: Andrew Roberts
    • Narrated by: Philip Stevens
    • Length: 36 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
    • Roberts argues that, far from being a tyrant or incompetent, George III was one of our most admirable monarchs. George III shows one of Britain's premier historians at his sparkling best....

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    • The True Story of One British Ship's Battle Against the Slave Trade
    • By: A.E. Rooks
    • Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
    • Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A ground-breaking history of the Black Joke, the most famous member of the British Royal Navy’s anti-slavery squadron, and the long fight to end the transatlantic slave trade....

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    • Satire, Scandal and Printmakers in Georgian London
    • By: Alice Loxton
    • Narrated by: Alice Loxton
    • Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 16-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • One of the UK's most exciting young historians presents a brilliant new history of Georgian Britain through the eyes of the artists who immortalized it....

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    • Soldier and Statesman in a Revolutionary World
    • By: Richard Middleton
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 22-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Richard Middleton presents the first biography of Charles Cornwallis in 40 years - the soldier, governor, and statesman whose career covered America, India, Britain, and Ireland....

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    • The Creation of a World Capital
    • By: Simon Jenkins
    • Narrated by: Anthony Howell
    • Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 17-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • London: a settlement founded by the Romans, occupied by the Saxons, conquered by the Danes and ruled by the Normans....

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    • Life in Nelson’s Navy
    • By: Patrick O’Brian
    • Narrated by: Ronald Pickup
    • Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
    • Release date: 17-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • What was daily life in Nelson's navy really like, for everyone from the captain down to the rawest recruit? What did they eat? What songs did they sing? What was the schedule of watches? How were the officers and crew paid, and what was the division of prize-money? Find out....

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    • The Lives and Loves of Regency Women
    • By: Felicity Day
    • Narrated by: Heather Tracy
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 29-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Taking us behind drawing room doors and into high society ballrooms, The Game of Hearts follows six leading ladies and their family, friends, and contemporaries as they move from matchmaking to matrimony and beyond....

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    • Epic Tales from Britain’s Wildest Century
    • By: Robert Peal
    • Narrated by: Robert Peal, Nicola Coughlan, Adjoa Andoh, Ash Hunter
    • Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • With 12 epic tales from Britain’s wildest century, this is a rapid journey through those who made history between 1714 and the 1830s....

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    • A Forgotten Georgian History
    • By: Gretchen Gerzina
    • Narrated by: Debra Michaels
    • Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 29-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Georgian England had a large and distinctive black community. Yet all of them, prosperous citizens or newly freed slaves, ran the risk of kidnap and sale to plantations. Their dramatic, often moving story is told in this audiobook....

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    • How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery
    • By: Michael Taylor
    • Narrated by: James MacCallum
    • Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 05-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • For 200 years, the abolition of slavery in Britain has been a cause for self-congratulation - but no longer....

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    • The Poet Who Changed the World
    • By: Jonathan Bate
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • William Wordsworth wrote the first great poetic autobiography. We owe to him the idea that places of outstanding natural beauty should become what he called ‘a sort of national property’....

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    • The History and Archaeology of the Last Clan Battle
    • By: Tony Pollard - Edited by
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • In this fascinating and original book, a team of leading historians and archaeologists reconsiders every aspect of the battle. They examine the latest historical and archaeological evidence, question every assumption, and rewrite the story of the campaign in vivid detail....

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    • The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
    • By: Brian Merchant
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 26-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • The "rich and gripping" true story of the first time machines came for human jobs—and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech and AI today (Naomi Klein)....

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    • Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels
    • By: Adam Nicolson
    • Narrated by: Roger Davis
    • Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 30-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Best-selling and award-winning writer Adam Nicolson tells the story, almost day by day, of the year in the late 1790s that Coleridge, Wordsworth, his sister Dorothy and an ever-shifting cast of friends, dependents and acolytes spent together in the Quantock Hills in Somerset....

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    • The Fight for Rights 1829
    • By: Antonia Fraser
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 29-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • The story of Catholic Emancipation begins with the Anti-Catholic Gordon Riots in 1780, fuelled by a reduction in Penal Laws against Catholics harking back to the 16th century. Fifty years later, the passing of the Emancipation Bill was hailed as a 'bloodless revolution'....

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    • How Georgian Britain's Worst Husband Met His Match
    • By: Wendy Moore
    • Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
    • Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 15-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • Wedlock is the remarkable story of the Countess of Strathmore and her marriage to Andrew Robinson Stoney....

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