Victorian History

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    • The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
    • Auteur(s): Sarah Ogilvie
    • Narrateur(s): Joan Walker, Sarah Ogilvie
    • Durée: 11 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-10-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • The Dictionary People is a celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, word by word....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
    • Auteur(s): Saidiya Hartman
    • Narrateur(s): Allyson Johnson
    • Durée: 10 h et 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-04-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the 20th century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Royal Marriages That Shaped Europe
    • Auteur(s): Deborah Cadbury
    • Narrateur(s): Charlotte Strevens
    • Durée: 13 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-05-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted the most international power and influence: as a matchmaking grandmother. Queen Victoria's Matchmaking travels through the palaces of Europe, weaving in scandals, political machinations, and family tensions....

    Prix courant: 32,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure
    • Auteur(s): Tim Jeal
    • Narrateur(s): Clive Chafer
    • Durée: 14 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-12-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • From award-winning author Tim Jeal comes a vivid examination of the six larger-than-life men and one extraordinary woman who set out to find the source of the White Nile in the 19th century....

    Prix courant: 24,49$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Breed and Blood in Victorian Britain (Animals, History, Culture)
    • Auteur(s): Michael Worboys, Julie-Marie Strange, Neil Pemberton
    • Narrateur(s): Keith McCarthy
    • Durée: 9 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-04-19
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In The Invention of the Modern Dog, Michael Worboys, Julie-Marie Strange, and Neil Pemberton explore when, where, why, and how Victorians invented the modern way of ordering and breeding dogs.

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Friedrich Engels
    • Narrateur(s): Derek Le Page
    • Durée: 14 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-12-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Engels set out to show that the working classes in factories were far worse off in terms of general health, life expectancy, working hours and working conditions than they had been in the agricultural environment that existed in previous centuries....

    Prix courant: 32,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858
    • Auteur(s): Rosemary Ashton
    • Narrateur(s): Corrie James
    • Durée: 12 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-08-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Historian Rosemary Ashton reveals in this compelling microhistory that London in 1858 was marked by significant, if unrecognized, turning points....

    Prix courant: 23,38$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
    • Auteur(s): Kate Summerscale
    • Narrateur(s): Simon Vance
    • Durée: 9 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2008-10-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 évaluations
    • In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. Scotland Yard sent its best man to investigate, Inspector Jonathan Whicher....

    Prix courant: 27,25$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Captivating Guide to an Era in American History That Overlaps the Reconstruction Era and Coincides with Parts of the Victorian Era in Britain Along with the Belle Époque in France
    • Auteur(s): Captivating History
    • Narrateur(s): Jason Zenobia
    • Durée: 4 h
    • Date de publication: 2021-01-12
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • From a modern perspective, it may seem that the United States was a major powerhouse since its early days. However, the truth is far from it. This transformation from a weak and relatively poor dominion into a world-class international power was undoubtedly a long process....

    Prix courant: 18,74$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Secrets from a Victorian Woman’s Wardrobe
    • Auteur(s): Kate Strasdin
    • Narrateur(s): Karen Cass
    • Durée: 9 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-06-06
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In 1838, a young woman was given a diary on her wedding day. Collecting snippets of fabric from a range of garments she carefully annotated each one, creating a unique record of her life and times. Her name was Mrs Anne Sykes....

    Prix courant: 21,29$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer
    • Auteur(s): Dean Jobb
    • Narrateur(s): Steven Crossley
    • Durée: 9 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-07-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals,” Sherlock Holmes observed. Incredibly, at the time these words appeared in print, a real-life Canadian doctor, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream, was stalking and murdering women in London’s downtrodden Lambeth neighborhood....

    Prix courant: 32,62$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London
    • Auteur(s): Oskar Jensen
    • Narrateur(s): Oskar Jensen
    • Durée: 10 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-05-28
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Dickensian London is brought to real and vivid life in this innovative, accessible social history, revealing the true character of this place and time through the stories of its street denizens.

    Prix courant: 21,92$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Life
    • Auteur(s): A. N. Wilson
    • Narrateur(s): Gareth Armstrong
    • Durée: 19 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-02-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • To many Queen Victoria was a ruler shrouded in myth and mystique, portrayed as an aging, stiff widow....

    Prix courant: 32,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest
    • Auteur(s): Lesley Poling-Kempes
    • Narrateur(s): Jo Anna Perrin
    • Durée: 11 h et 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-02-20
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Ladies of the Canyons is the true story of remarkable women who left the security and comforts of genteel Victorian society and journeyed to the American Southwest in search of a wider view of themselves and their world....

    Prix courant: 22,82$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • Auteur(s): Martin Hewitt
    • Narrateur(s): Mike Cooper
    • Durée: 3 h et 50 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-11-24
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In The Victorians: A Very Short Introduction Martin Hewitt offers a guide through the thickets of judgement and debate which have grown around the period and its people, to offer a historical overview of the Victorians and their legacies....

    Prix courant: 14,47$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Father of Economics
    • Auteur(s): Jesse Norman
    • Narrateur(s): Jesse Norman
    • Durée: 13 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-09-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • A dazzlingly original account of the life and thought of Adam Smith, the greatest economist of all time....

    Prix courant: 32,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Lytton Strachey
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Keeble
    • Durée: 11 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-10-26
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Eminent Victorians, Lytton Strachey's wonderfully witty and Wildean quartet of biographies, stands out as one of the most radical and groundbreaking works of its genre....

    Prix courant: 31,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames
    • Auteur(s): Lara Maiklem
    • Narrateur(s): Xanthe Elbrick
    • Durée: 9 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-11-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • A quixotic journey through London's past, Mudlark plumbs the banks of the Thames to reveal the stories hidden behind the archaeological remnants of an ancient city....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Winner Takes All, Book 1
    • Auteur(s): Kate Noble
    • Narrateur(s): Beverley A. Crick
    • Série: Winner Takes All, Livre 1
    • Durée: 10 h et 33 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-07-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • Making a wager that he can have any woman he desires even without his title, Ned switches places with John Turner, his friend and secretary. But once he does, Ned's luck suddenly abandons him....

    Prix courant: 41,67$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): E. K. Johnston
    • Narrateur(s): Katherine Kellgren
    • Durée: 8 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-10-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • Victoria-Margaret is the crown princess of the empire. The tradition of genetically arranged matchmaking will soon guide her into a politically advantageous marriage....

    Prix courant: 29,14$ ou 1 crédit

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