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    • By: Alison Weir
    • Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
    • Length: 25 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 810 ratings
    • This magnificent biography of Henry VIII is set against the cultural, social and political background of his court and the splendour of his many sumptuous palaces....

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    • The Wars of the Roses
    • By: Alison Weir
    • Narrated by: Maggie Mash
    • Length: 22 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 729 ratings
    • Lancater and York is a riveting account of the Wars of the Roses, from the beloved and best-selling historian Alison Weir....

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    • My Story and the Reality of Sinn Féin
    • By: Máiría Cahill
    • Narrated by: Máiría Cahill
    • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 28-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • Rough Beast is Máiría Cahill's harrowing story of her life and of what she went through at the hands of what is now Ireland’s largest and richest party....

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    • The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home
    • By: Alison O'Reilly
    • Narrated by: Amy Molloy
    • Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 01-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • In 1946, 26 year-old Bridget Dolan walked up the path to the front door of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home. Alone and pregnant, she was following in the footsteps of more than a century’s worth of lost souls....

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    • 1,000 Years of Royal Deaths
    • By: Suzie Edge
    • Narrated by: Suzie Edge
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 29-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 287 ratings
    • Medical historian Dr Suzie Edge examines 1,000 years of royal deaths to present a humorous deep-dive into the varied—and oft-gruesome—deaths of the king and queens of England and Scotland....

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    • The Extraordinary Life and Times of Raine Spencer
    • By: Tina Gaudoin
    • Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 27-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • Debutante of the year. Able politician. Femme fatale. Just some of the many labels attached to the irrepressible, controversial Raine Spencer: Countess, socialite and stepmother to Diana, Princess of Wales. Three Times a Countess recounts Raine's compelling and glamorous life....

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    • The Dawn of Tudor England
    • By: Thomas Penn
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 277 ratings
    • A fresh look at the endlessly fascinating Tudors - the dramatic and overlooked story of Henry VII and his founding of the Tudor Dynasty....

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    • Tom Crean – Antarctic Survivor
    • By: Michael Smith
    • Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 197 ratings
    • Tom Crean was the farmer’s son from Kerry who sailed on three major expeditions to the unknown Antarctic over a century ago. He served with both Captain Robert Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton, spent longer on the ice than either and outlived them both....

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    • By: Ronald Hutton
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • In this first volume in a pioneering account of Oliver Cromwell, Ronald Hutton provides a major new interpretation of one of the greatest figures in history....

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    • By: Alison Weir
    • Narrated by: Maggie Mash
    • Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 14-11-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 188 ratings
    • Mary Boleyn was the mistress of two kings, Francois I of France and Henry VIII of England, and sister to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s second wife....

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    • The Inside Story of Charles, Andrew and the Rivalry That Has Defined the Royal Family
    • By: Nigel Cawthorne
    • Narrated by: Samuel Hill
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 31-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Telling the story of their lives from children to modern day, this fascinating and revelatory book will look at the fraught relationship (and fiery rivalry) between King Charles and Prince Andrew....

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    • By: John Humphreys, Stuart Tootal
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 29-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Coinciding with the 80th anniversary of Operation MARKET GARDEN, The Last Para is be the final firsthand account of this legendary action, told with incredible honesty and irrepressible spirit.

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    • Portrait of a Love Affair
    • By: Gyles Brandreth
    • Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
    • Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • This is a story of the most well documented, most commented on love affair of our times....

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    • The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
    • By: Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
    • Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
    • Length: 26 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 28-03-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 363 ratings
    • J. Robert Oppenheimer, an iconic figure of the 20th century, was a brilliant physicist who led efforts to build an atomic bomb but later confronted the moral consequences of scientific progress....

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    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 24 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 376 ratings
    • Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us - an ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings....

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    • My Part in His Downfall
    • By: Spike Milligan
    • Narrated by: Spike Milligan
    • Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 730 ratings
    • At Victoria station the R.T.O. gave me a travel warrant, a white feather and a picture of Hitler marked 'This is your enemy'. I searched every compartment, but he wasn't on the train....

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    • Memoirs of Rudolf Hoess, Kommandant SS
    • By: Rudolf Hoess
    • Narrated by: Tim Dalgleish
    • Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 16-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 172 ratings
    • The first-hand account of the life, career, and the practices of horror at Auschwitz....

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    • Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy
    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice, and vicious cruelty - all have been associated with their name. And yet, paradoxically, this family lived when the Renaissance was coming into its full flowering in Italy....

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