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Black and British
- A Forgotten History, from the acclaimed historian and star of 'Celebrity Traitors'
- By: David Olusoga
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Length: 24 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Winner of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize Winner of the Longman History Today Trustees’ Award Longlisted for the Orwell Prize Unflinching and revealing, Black and British is a vital history that reveals how black British lives have been woven into the fabric of the nation for centuries – from...
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Fantastically detailed Exceptionally informative
- By lionel on 30-04-17
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Black and British
- A Forgotten History, from the acclaimed historian and star of 'Celebrity Traitors'
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Length: 24 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 03-11-16
- Language: English
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Misjustice
- How British Law Is Failing Women
- By: Helena Kennedy
- Narrated by: Helena Kennedy
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Performance78
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Helena Kennedy forensically examines the pressing new evidence that women are being discriminated against when it comes to the law. From the shocking lack of female judges to the scandal of female prisons and the double discrimination experienced by BAME women, Kennedy shows with force and fury that change for women must start at the heart of what makes society just.
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Brilliant and important
- By Alex Temple on 22-04-20
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Misjustice
- How British Law Is Failing Women
- Narrated by: Helena Kennedy
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 05-09-19
- Language: English
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If We Tolerate This
- How the British establishment made the far right respectable
- By: Daniel Trilling
- Narrated by: Rory Kinnear
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Read by Rory Kinnear (Black Mirror, James Bond, Toxic Town) From political journalist Daniel Trilling, If We Tolerate This is a vital look at Britain's alarming shift towards far-right politics and what can be done to reverse it. The language of the far right is now in the mouths of our...
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Very well researched and deeply worrying
- By Mark Anthony on 26-05-26
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If We Tolerate This
- How the British establishment made the far right respectable
- Narrated by: Rory Kinnear
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 30-04-26
- Language: English
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Heirs and Graces
- A History of the Modern British Aristocracy
- By: Eleanor Doughty
- Narrated by: Florence Howard
- Length: 18 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. The fascinating new history of the British Aristocracy since the Second World War There are fewer than 5000 people who can genuinely claim to be members of the British aristocracy, and yet they loom large in the popular consciousness. We're fascinated by their houses...
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So many mispronunciations
- By Duncan reed on 09-10-25
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Heirs and Graces
- A History of the Modern British Aristocracy
- Narrated by: Florence Howard
- Length: 18 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 04-09-25
- Language: English
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The Making of Them: The British Attitude to Children and the Boarding School System
- By: Nick Duffell
- Narrated by: Hugh Trethowan
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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At the dawn of the 21st century, British society is still shaped by a private education system devised to gentrify the Victorian middle classes and produce gentlemen to run the Empire. Yet it is not on the political agenda. It is rarely the subject of public debate, and we remain blind to its psychological implications. Can we afford to go on ignoring this issue? Will we continue to sacrifice the welfare of our children to satisfy our antiquated social aspirations?
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Nearly
- By Izzy on 13-11-20
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The Making of Them: The British Attitude to Children and the Boarding School System
- Narrated by: Hugh Trethowan
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 17-02-16
- Language: English
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Drax of Drax Hall
- How One British Family Got Rich (and Stayed Rich) from Sugar and Slavery
- By: Paul Lashmar
- Narrated by: Simon Manyonda
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Spanning 400 years, Drax of Drax Hall is a story of a plantation owning dynasty that has never been told. It all started when James Drax, one of the first settlers in Barbados in 1627, founded the British sugar industry. His descendants went on to write the book on how to run a slave plantation. For more than two hundred years, the family enslaved up to 330 people at any time and became enormously rich.
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Drax of Drax Hall
- How One British Family Got Rich (and Stayed Rich) from Sugar and Slavery
- Narrated by: Simon Manyonda
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 12-02-26
- Language: English
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The Road to Somewhere
- The New Tribes Shaping British Politics
- By: David Goodhart
- Narrated by: Simon Bubb
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall179
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Performance158
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Many Remainers reported waking up the day after the Brexit vote feeling as if they were living in a foreign country. In fact, they were merely experiencing the same feeling that many British people have felt every day for years. Goodhart shows us how people have come to be divided into two camps: the 'Anywheres', who have 'achieved' identities, derived from their careers and education, and the 'Somewheres', who get their identity from a sense of place and from the people around them, and who feel a sense of loss due to mass immigration and rapid social change.
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Excellent analysis of a split UK society
- By G. M. Page on 28-08-19
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The Road to Somewhere
- The New Tribes Shaping British Politics
- Narrated by: Simon Bubb
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 28-09-17
- Language: English
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Where We Live: The Fractured Art of British Housebuilding and How to Build the Homes we Need
- By: Jonathan Glancey
- Narrated by: Alan Turton
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Britain is in the grip of a housing crisis. It has, in fact, been in the grip of a housing crisis since the Industrial Revolution, when the population soared and people crammed into towns and cities in search of work. What followed is a tale of suburbia, green belts and, since the 1980s, the...
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Where We Live: The Fractured Art of British Housebuilding and How to Build the Homes we Need
- Narrated by: Alan Turton
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 18-06-26
- Language: English
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How to Be a Patriot
- Why love of country can end our very British culture war
- By: Sunder Katwala
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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How do we define patriotism in a diverse society? What divides us and what brings us together? Why do we feel uncomfortable celebrating our country’s history? How to be a Patriot offers a new way of understanding our collective identity in a country wracked by division and brimming with...
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How to Be a Patriot
- Why love of country can end our very British culture war
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 15-06-23
- Language: English
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Entitled
- A Critical History of the British Aristocracy
- By: Chris Bryant
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Exploring the extraordinary social and political dominance enjoyed by the British aristocracy over the centuries, Entitled seeks to explain how a tiny number of noble families rose to such a position in the first place. It reveals the often nefarious means they have employed to maintain their wealth, power, and prestige and examines the greed, ambition, jealousy, and rivalry which drove aristocratic families to guard their interests with such determination.
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Interesting but spoiled by narrator
- By Mary Carnegie on 01-04-24
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Entitled
- A Critical History of the British Aristocracy
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 19-07-22
- Language: English
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Things We Should Talk About
- Conversations on Identity, Belonging and Being British
- By: Alex Beresford
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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'I realised that time is precious, and what we do with it matters, especially if we want to create change. And that begins with conversation.' Growing up the son of a Black father and white mother in 1980s Britain, Alex Beresford has always known that identity isn't straightforward. From the...
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Things We Should Talk About
- Conversations on Identity, Belonging and Being British
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 10-09-26
- Language: English
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Black British Lives Matter
- By: Lenny Henry, Marcus Ryder
- Narrated by: Lennry Henry, Marcus Ryder, Debra Michaels, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Recognising Black British experience within the Black Lives Matter movement, 19 prominent Black figures explain why Black lives should be celebrated when too often they are undervalued. Drawing from personal experience, they stress how Black British people have unique perspectives and experiences that enrich British society and the world; how Black lives are far more interesting and important than the forces that try to limit it.
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I needed to Hear This Book
- By Mr S B Hookham on 02-03-22
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Black British Lives Matter
- Narrated by: Lennry Henry, Marcus Ryder, Debra Michaels, Ben Onwukwe, Liyah Summers, David Adjaye
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 16-11-21
- Language: English
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Black, Listed
- Black British Culture Explored
- By: Jeffrey Boakye
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance99
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Who is a roadman really? What's wrong with calling someone a 'lighty'? Why do people think black guys are cool? These are just some of the questions being wrestled with in Black, Listed, an exploration of 21st-century black Identity told through a list of insults, insights and everything in between. Taking a panoramic look at global black history, interrogating both contemporary and historical culture, Black, Listed investigates the ways in which black communities (and individuals) have been represented, oppressed, mimicked, celebrated and othered.
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Interested in a UK perspective? Get this then!
- By james Thurlby-Brooks on 04-11-19
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Black, Listed
- Black British Culture Explored
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 18-04-19
- Language: English
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Dope Girls: The Birth Of The British Drug Underground
- By: Marek Kohn
- Narrated by: Jaimi Barbakoff
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a discussion of the transformation of drug use (especially morphine and cocaine, which was once commonly available in any chemist's shop) into a national menace. It revolves around the death of Billie Carleton, a West End musical actress, in 1918. Its cast of characters includes Brilliant Chang, a Chinese restaurant proprietor and Edgar Manning, a jazz drummer from Jamaica. They were eventually identified as the villains of the affair and invested with a highly charged sexual menace.
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Dope Girls: The Birth Of The British Drug Underground
- Narrated by: Jaimi Barbakoff
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 21-11-24
- Language: English
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Moneyland
- The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats Who Rule the World
- By: Oliver Bullough
- Narrated by: Oliver Bullough
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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"If you want to know why international crooks and their eminently respectable financial advisors walk tall and only the little people pay taxes, this is the ideal book for you. Every politician and moneyman on the planet should read it, but they won't because it's actually about them." —John...
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Moneyland
- The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats Who Rule the World
- Narrated by: Oliver Bullough
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 07-05-19
- Language: English
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The Happiness of the British Working Class
- By: Jamie L. Bronstein
- Narrated by: Lianne Walker
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Drawing from careful examinations of their personal narratives, Jamie L. Bronstein investigates the ways in which working people thought about the good life as seen through their experiences with family and friends, rewarding work, interaction with the natural world, science and creativity, political causes and religious commitments, and physical and economic struggles. Informed by the history of emotions and the philosophical and social-scientific literature on happiness, this book reflects broadly on the industrial-era working-class experience in an era of immense social and economic change.
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The Happiness of the British Working Class
- Narrated by: Lianne Walker
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 19-12-23
- Language: English
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The Life and Times of a Very British Man
- By: Kamal Ahmed
- Narrated by: Kamal Ahmed
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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A poignant, challenging and witty memoir by one of Britain’s most senior journalists about the history of - and resistance to - immigration in the UK. In April 1968, Conservative MP Enoch Powell delivered a speech that was to frame the debate about immigration in the UK for the next 50 years. ‘We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to allow the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents,’ he said. ‘It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.’ Kamal Ahmed was six months old at the time of Powell’s speech.
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Social vs personal history of being an 'other'.
- By K. J. Kelly on 25-10-18
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The Life and Times of a Very British Man
- Narrated by: Kamal Ahmed
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 18-10-18
- Language: English
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The British Gentry, the Southern Planter, and the Northern Family Farmer
- Agriculture and Sectional Antagonism in North America
- By: James L. Huston
- Narrated by: Drew Bott
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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This groundbreaking study of agriculture's role in the war defies long-held notions that Northern industrialization and urbanization led to clashes between North and South. Huston argues that the ideological chasm between plantation owners in the South and family farmers in the North led to the political eruption of 1854-1856 and the birth of a sectionalized party system.
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The British Gentry, the Southern Planter, and the Northern Family Farmer
- Agriculture and Sectional Antagonism in North America
- Narrated by: Drew Bott
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 07-03-19
- Language: English
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