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  • The Thirty Years War cover art

    • The Thirty Years War

    • Europe's Tragedy
    • Written by: Peter H. Wilson
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 33 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 2023-05-02
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • The Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world....

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    • Black Flags, Blue Waters

    • The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
    • Written by: Eric Jay Dolin
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 2018-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 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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    • Born to Be Hanged

    • The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
    • Written by: Keith Thomson
    • Narrated by: Feodor Chin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 2022-05-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • The year is 1680, in the heart of the Golden Age of Piracy, and more than 300 daring, hardened pirates—a potent mix of low-life scallywags and a rare breed of gentlemen buccaneers—gather on a remote Caribbean island....

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    • City of Light, City of Poison

    • Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
    • Written by: Holly Tucker
    • Narrated by: Kate Reading
    • Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 2017-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Appointed to conquer the "crime capital of the world", the first police chief of Paris faces an epidemic of murder in the late 1600s....

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    • Lieutenant Nun

    • The True Story of a Cross-Dressing, Transatlantic Adventurer Who Escaped from a Spanish Convent in 1599 and Lived as a Man
    • Written by: Catalina de Erauso, Michele Stepto - translator, Gabriel Stepto - translator
    • Narrated by: Adriana Pascua
    • Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 2024-02-13
    • Language: English
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    • One of the earliest known autobiographies by a woman, this is the extraordinary tale of Catalina de Erauso, who in 1599 escaped from a Basque convent dressed as a man and went on to live one of the most wildly fantastic lives of any woman in history....

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    • Republic

    • Britain's Revolutionary Decade, 1649–1660
    • Written by: Alice Hunt
    • Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
    • Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 2024-09-24
    • Language: English
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    • Events moved fast in the 1650s. Something cataclysmic happened every year, something that would thrust the newly formed republic, its people, and its eventual 'Lord Protector' Oliver Cromwell, in an entirely new direction.

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  • English Civil War: A History from Beginning to End cover art

    • English Civil War: A History from Beginning to End

    • Written by: Hourly History
    • Narrated by: William Irvine
    • Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
    • Release date: 2017-12-20
    • Language: English
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    • In 1642, King Charles I and the elected Parliament of England went to war over the future of the Stuart kingdom. Over the next nine years, three civil wars would be fought, devastating the populations of England, Scotland, and Ireland....

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    • Vermeer's Hat

    • The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
    • Written by: Timothy Brook
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 2013-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • A Vermeer painting shows a military officer in a Dutch sitting room, talking to a laughing girl....

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    • The Invention of Science

    • A New History of the Scientific Revolution
    • Written by: David Wootton
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 22 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 2016-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • A groundbreaking examination of the greatest event in history, the Scientific Revolution, and how it came to change the way we understand ourselves and our world....

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    • Hot Protestants

    • A History of Puritanism in England and America
    • Written by: Michael P. Winship
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 2019-05-21
    • Language: English
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    • On fire for God - a sweeping history of puritanism in England and America....

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    • The Devils of Loudun

    • A True Story of Demonic Possession
    • Written by: Aldous Huxley
    • Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
    • Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 2017-08-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In 1632, an entire convent in the small French village of Loudun was apparently possessed by the devil....

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    • Batavia's Graveyard

    • The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
    • Written by: Mike Dash
    • Narrated by: Guy Bethell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 2016-11-29
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • It was the autumn of 1628, and the Batavia, the Dutch East India Company's flagship, was loaded with a king's ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java....

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    • Under the Black Flag

    • The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
    • Written by: David Cordingly
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 2011-11-29
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 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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    • How the Old World Ended

    • The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution 1500-1800
    • Written by: Jonathan Scott
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 2020-09-23
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • Killers of the King

    • The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I
    • Written by: Charles Spencer
    • Narrated by: Richard Trinder
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 2021-11-11
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • January, 1649. After seven years of fighting in the bloodiest war in Britain’s history, Parliament faced a problem: what to do with a defeated king, a king who refused to surrender....

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    • The Taste of Conquest

    • The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice
    • Written by: Michael Krondl
    • Narrated by: Todd McLaren
    • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 2007-11-05
    • Language: English
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    • In this engaging, anecdotal history of food, world conquest, and desire, a chef-turned-journalist tells the story of three legendary cities that transformed the globe in the quest for spice....

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    • A Commonwealth of Thieves

    • The Improbable Birth of Australia
    • Written by: Thomas Keneally
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 2006-10-02
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • It was 1786 when Arthur Phillip, an ambitious captain in the Royal Navy, was assigned the formidable task of organizing an expedition to Australia in order to establish a penal colony....

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    • They Flew

    • A History of the Impossible
    • Written by: Carlos M. N. Eire
    • Narrated by: Emmanuel Chumaceiro
    • Length: 16 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 2024-02-13
    • Language: English
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    • Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era—tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft—even as skepticism, atheism, and empirical science were starting to supplant religious belief in the paranormal....

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  • Oliver Cromwell: A Life from Beginning to End cover art

    • Oliver Cromwell: A Life from Beginning to End

    • Written by: Hourly History
    • Narrated by: William Irvine
    • Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
    • Release date: 2017-12-22
    • Language: English
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    • One of the most controversial figures in British history, Oliver Cromwell entered as an insignificant member of the English gentry and left it as the all-powerful Lord Protector....

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