Modern Greats

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    • Murder and Mayhem in Early Modern Britain
    • By: Blessin Adams
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 30-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 145 ratings
    • Nine historic crimes. One familiar obsession....

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    • By: Dorsey Armstrong, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Dorsey Armstrong
    • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 17-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 631 ratings
    • Was King Arthur a real person? What about Robin Hood? Is the Holy Grail a cup, or something else altogether? Did Europeans really burn millions of people at the stake for witchcraft? These are just a few of the questions you will explore with the help of medieval scholar Dorsey Armstrong....

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    • How the British Navy Changed the Modern World
    • By: Arthur Herman
    • Narrated by: John Curless
    • Length: 29 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 19-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 324 ratings
    • The extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in history....

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    • By: Andrew Marr
    • Narrated by: David Timson
    • Length: 29 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 346 ratings
    • A History of Modern Britain confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics....

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    • By: Andrew Marr
    • Narrated by: David Timson
    • Length: 20 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 146 ratings
    • Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation was shaken by war and peace....

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    • By: Andrew Marr
    • Narrated by: Andrew Marr
    • Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 446 ratings
    • Nominated for the British Book Awards, Popular Non-Fiction Award, 2008.
      Shortlisted for the Audiobook Download of the Year, 2007.

      A History of Modern Britain confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics....

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    • or Sixty Years of Making the Same Stupid Mistakes
    • By: John O'Farrell
    • Narrated by: John O'Farrell
    • Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 193 ratings
    • Following his hugely popular account of the previous 2000 years, John O'Farrell now comes bang up to date with a hilarious modern history asking 'How the hell did we end up here?'...

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    • A Timeless Journey from Celtic Origins to Modern Great Britain
    • By: History Brought Alive
    • Narrated by: Christian Neale
    • Series: British Isles, Book 2
    • Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 19-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Wales might seem like a quiet corner of the globe, but its history is anything but silent…. From Celtic warriors to Roman conquerors, this book takes you on a journey exploring a captivating nation forged through centuries of battles and achievements.

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    • America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
    • By: Jay Winik
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 31 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into revolution....

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    • By: Andrew Marr
    • Narrated by: Andrew Marr
    • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 15-10-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 229 ratings
    • In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire....

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    • Chief Inspector Gamache, Book 12
    • By: Louise Penny
    • Narrated by: Adam Sims
    • Series: Chief Inspector Gamache, Book 12
    • Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 30-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 175 ratings
    • Former chief inspector Gamache has been hunting killers his entire career, and as the new commander of the Sûreté Academy, he is given the chance to combat corruption and brutality....

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    • How Britain Made the Modern World
    • By: Niall Ferguson
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Niall Ferguson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 855 ratings
    • Penguin presents the unabridged audiobook edition of Empire by Niall Ferguson, read by Jonathan Keeble....

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    • Crisis and Change in Modern Britain, from 1945 to Truss
    • By: Steve Richards
    • Narrated by: Steve Richards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 21-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • In Turning Points, seasoned political commentator and broadcaster Steve Richards explores the most consequential events in modern British history....

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    • A People’s History of the City That Shaped the Modern World
    • By: Brian Groom
    • Narrated by: David Judge
    • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 23-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Long before Manchester gave the world titans of industry, comedy, music and sport, it was the cosmopolitan Roman fort of Mamucium. But it was as the ‘shock city’ of the Industrial Revolution that Manchester really made its mark on the world stage....

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    • How Modern Britain Was Forged
    • By: Andrew Marr
    • Narrated by: Raj Ghatak
    • Length: 16 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • In this wonderfully told history, spanning back to when Queen Elizabeth became queen in 1953, Andrew Marr traces the people who have made Britain the country it is today....

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    • A Modern History
    • By: T.M. Devine
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 33 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 19-03-24
    • Language: English
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    • An account of the last three hundred years of Scottish history offers a look at Scottish identity and culture.

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    • How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West
    • By: Andrew Wilson
    • Narrated by: Andrew Wilson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • In this skillfully researched audiobook, Andrew Wilson explains how 7 historic events in 1776 shaped today’s post-Christian West and equips believers to share God’s truth in the current social landscape.

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    • Isaac Newton, The Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
    • By: Edward Dolnick
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • The Clockwork Universe is the story of a band of men who lived in a world of dirt and disease but pictured a universe that ran like a perfect machine....

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