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Regicide
- Bloodlines, Betrayals, and the Royal Murders That Shaped History
- By: J. Duncan
- Narrated by: Michael O'Flaherty
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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Twenty kings. Twenty centuries. Twenty murders that bent the arc of civilization. From Julius Caesar's assassination on the Ides of March to King Faisal's shooting in a Riyadh palace, the killing of a sovereign has never been merely the end of a life — it has always been the beginning of a transformation. Regicide traces one pivotal royal murder from each century between the 1st and the 20th, revealing the systemic failures, factional conspiracies, and human blind spots that brought down the most powerful leaders on earth.
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Regicide
- Bloodlines, Betrayals, and the Royal Murders That Shaped History
- Narrated by: Michael O'Flaherty
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 15-05-26
- Language: English
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Unearthing Britannia's Tribes
- A BBC history of Iron Age Britain
- By: David Miles, Caradoc Peters, Melanie Giles, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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From warrior queens to King Arthur, this epic collection explores the tribes, rulers and civilisations of Britain's Iron Age In the first millennium BC, the Iron Age arrived in Britain, bringing with it huge technological and social changes. New civilisations arose, the landscape was transformed...
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You can get this for free on BBC sounds
- By Toby on 03-06-24
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Unearthing Britannia's Tribes
- A BBC history of Iron Age Britain
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 16-02-23
- Language: English
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Those About To Die
- By: Daniel P. Mannix
- Narrated by: Brian P. Craig
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
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Putting the games in the context of Rome's rise and dramatic fall, Mannix captures all the history, planning, and savage pageantry that went into creating the first spectator sports. But as Rome begin to fall in the fifth century, so did the games, devolving into nothing more than pointless massacres. In the end, millions of humans and animals were sacrificed in barbaric displays. What were once ceremonies given in honor of gods met an inglorious fate, yet they still captivate the imagination of people today.
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Makes you think
- By Panagiotis on 28-05-26
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Those About To Die
- Narrated by: Brian P. Craig
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 27-08-24
- Language: English
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In Our Time: 25 Journeys Through the History of the Islamic World
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the history of the Islamic world through its religion, thinkers, poetry, empire and rulers 'An ever-growing library of wisdom' The Economist Since 1998, In Our Time has been the go-to radio programme for knowledge seekers and inquiring minds. Tackling big topics...
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In Our Time: 25 Journeys Through the History of the Islamic World
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Series: In Our Time
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 16-03-23
- Language: English
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The Great Warming
- Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
- By: Brian Fagan
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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The history of the Great Warming of a half millennium ago suggests that we may yet be underestimating the power of climate change to disrupt our lives todayand our vulnerability to drought, writes Fagan, is the silent elephant in the room.
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well researched
- By pj on 01-03-12
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The Great Warming
- Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 16-02-10
- Language: English
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The Road
- A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past
- By: Christopher Hadley
- Narrated by: Guy Slocombe
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR ‘An absolute joy to read and an early contender for every list of History Books of the Year’ Sunday Telegraph ‘On nearly every page a random passage takes one’s breath away’ The Times Have you ever heard the march of legions on a lonely country road? For two...
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Great research, very interesting
- By Cats_alone on 28-06-25
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The Road
- A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past
- Narrated by: Guy Slocombe
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 19-01-23
- Language: English
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Ancient Civilizations
- Revealing the Origins of Egypt, Babylon, Greece, and Rome to the Aztec Empire
- By: Oscar Johnson
- Narrated by: Gregory Dukeson
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Travel across thousands of years and countless cultures with this lively, informative, and entertaining exploration of ancient civilizations. Covering the period from 3500 BC to 1500 AD, this audiobook blends history, storytelling, and humour into a single guide that’s as enjoyable as it is enlightening. Whether you’re a lifelong history fan or simply curious about how ancient civilizations shaped the world, you’ll find plenty to learn, laugh at, and share.
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Informative!
- By Kora Lloyd on 16-11-25
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Ancient Civilizations
- Revealing the Origins of Egypt, Babylon, Greece, and Rome to the Aztec Empire
- Narrated by: Gregory Dukeson
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 03-11-25
- Language: English
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How to Survive History
- How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History’s Deadliest Catastrophes
- By: Cody Cassidy
- Narrated by: Nathan Adams Stark
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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In each chapter of How to Survive History, Cody Cassidy explores how to survive one of history's greatest threats: succumbing to the lava flows of Pompeii, drowning on board the Titanic, falling prey to the Black Death, and more. Using hindsight and modern science to estimate everything from how fast you'd need to run to outpace a T. rex to the advantages of different body types in surviving the Donner Party tragedy, Cassidy gives you a detailed battle plan for survival, helping you learn about the era at the same time
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How to Survive History
- How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History’s Deadliest Catastrophes
- Narrated by: Nathan Adams Stark
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 01-05-24
- Language: English
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China in World History
- By: Paul S. Ropp
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
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Here is a fascinating compact history of Chinese political, economic, and cultural life, ranging from the origins of civilization in China to the beginning of the 21st century. Historian Paul Ropp combines vivid story-telling with astute analysis to shed light on some of the larger questions of Chinese history. Offering a global perspective, the book tells how China's nomadic neighbors to the north and west influenced much of the political, military, and even cultural history of China.
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A brief overview, not as comprehensive.
- By Stuart H on 25-01-24
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China in World History
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 09-10-18
- Language: English
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Fatherhood
- A History of Love and Power
- By: Augustine Sedgewick
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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An Economist, GQ and Times Book of the Year 2025 An ambitious history of masculinity and family, from the Bronze Age to the modern day, Fatherhood dares to offer a more caring and affirmative vision of the roles men currently play in society. 'Superbly intelligent . . . a rewarding Sapiens-style...
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Fatherhood
- A History of Love and Power
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 29-05-25
- Language: English
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What Is Ancient History?
- By: Walter Scheidel
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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It's easy to think that ancient history is, well, ancient history—obsolete, irrelevant, unjustifiably focused on Greece and Rome, and at risk of extinction. In What Is Ancient History?, Walter Scheidel presents a compelling case for a new kind of ancient history—a global history that captures antiquity's pivotal role as a decisive phase in human development, one that provided the shared foundation of our world and continues to shape our lives today.
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What Is Ancient History?
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 22-04-25
- Language: English
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Inheritance
- The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World
- By: Harvey Whitehouse
- Narrated by: Harvey Whitehouse
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
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One of the world's leading anthropologists reveals how our evolutionary past informed the birth and rise of global civilisation. Unveiling a visionary new way of studying human history - one that stunningly weaves together experimental psychology, anthropology and quantitative social science - Harvey Whitehouse uncovers the three evolutionary biases that shape our social behaviour: conformism, religiosity and tribalism.
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Green behind the ears.
- By Amazon Customer on 04-04-26
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Inheritance
- The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World
- Narrated by: Harvey Whitehouse
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 13-06-24
- Language: English
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Silk
- A History in Three Metamorphoses
- By: Aarathi Prasad
- Narrated by: Lucinda Roberts
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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There is not just one story of silk. In silk is science, history and mythology. In silk is the future. Aarathi Prasad’s Silk is a gorgeous new history weaving together the story of a unique material that has fascinated the world for millennia. Through the scientists who have studied silk, and...
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Silk
- A History in Three Metamorphoses
- Narrated by: Lucinda Roberts
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 06-07-23
- Language: English
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A Thousand Small Sanities
- The Moral Adventure of Liberalism
- By: Adam Gopnik
- Narrated by: Adam Gopnik
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
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'WITTY, HUMANE, LEARNED' NEW YORK TIMES The New York Times-bestselling author offers a stirring defence of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our time Not since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack, from both right and left. The crisis of...
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The reader/author sometimes trips over his words
- By Rebecca Oliver on 18-02-20
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A Thousand Small Sanities
- The Moral Adventure of Liberalism
- Narrated by: Adam Gopnik
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 16-05-19
- Language: English
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The Anglo-Saxon Settlement of England
- The History and Legacy of the Anglo-Saxons at the Start of the Middle Ages
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
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Shortly after Emperor Hadrian came to power in the early second century CE, he decided to seal off Scotland from Roman Britain with an ambitious wall stretching from sea to sea. The sheer scale of Hadrian’s Wall still impresses people today, but as the Western Roman Empire collapsed in the late fifth century, Hadrian’s Wall was abandoned and Roman control of the area broke down. Little is known of this period of British history, but soon the Anglo-Saxons showed up and began to settle the land, creating a patchwork of little kingdoms and starting a new era of British history.
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The Anglo-Saxon Settlement of England
- The History and Legacy of the Anglo-Saxons at the Start of the Middle Ages
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
- Release date: 10-12-20
- Language: English
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Rome Is Burning
- Nero and the Fire that Ended a Dynasty
- By: Anthony A. Barrett
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
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According to legend, the Roman emperor Nero set fire to his majestic imperial capital on the night of July 19, 64 AD and fiddled while the city burned. It’s a story that has been told for more than two millennia - and it’s likely that almost none of it is true. In Rome Is Burning, distinguished Roman historian Anthony Barrett sets the record straight, providing a comprehensive and authoritative account of the Great Fire of Rome, its immediate aftermath, and its damaging long term consequences for the Roman world.
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Rome Is Burning
- Nero and the Fire that Ended a Dynasty
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Series: Turning Points in Ancient History
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 10-11-20
- Language: English
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The Islamic Golden Age
- A BBC History 770-1258 CE
- By: Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, Kamila Shamsie
- Narrated by: Kamila Shamsie, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
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Between the eighth and 13th century, the Islamic world flourished. This 500-year period of monumental political and cultural change became known as its 'Golden Age', characterised by unprecedented advancement in the fields of architecture, invention, medicine, innovation and philosophy, which still inform huge parts of the modern world. In these 20 episodes, we hear about some of the most remarkable events and individuals of this extraordinary epoch.
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Disappointed
- By Zam on 09-11-23
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The Islamic Golden Age
- A BBC History 770-1258 CE
- Narrated by: Kamila Shamsie, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 12-08-21
- Language: English
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The Written World
- The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization
- By: Martin Puchner
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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The story of literature in sixteen acts—from Homer to Harry Potter, including The Tale of Genji, Don Quixote, The Communist Manifesto, and how they shaped world history In this groundbreaking book, Martin Puchner leads us on a remarkable journey through time and around the globe to reveal the...
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The Written World
- The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 24-10-17
- Language: English
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Minoans
- A Captivating Guide to an Essential Bronze Age Society in Ancient Greece Called the Minoan Civilization
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Richard L. Walton
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
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The Minoans were an ancient civilization that built their settlements on islands in the Aegean Sea. They lived almost 5,000 years ago and left behind traces of their lives, but not enough for people to create a complete picture. Ever since the early 20th century, the Minoans have been a subject of interest, thanks to the discoveries and excavations by Sir Arthur Evans, a British archaeologist who found the first Minoan ruins and named them after the mythological King Minos and his Minotaur.
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- By Anonymous on 13-05-26
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Minoans
- A Captivating Guide to an Essential Bronze Age Society in Ancient Greece Called the Minoan Civilization
- Narrated by: Richard L. Walton
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
- Release date: 06-03-20
- Language: English
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The Black Death
- A Global History of Humanity's Most Devastating Pandemic
- By: Thomas Asbridge
- Narrated by: Thomas Asbridge, Justin Avoth
- Length: 19 hrs and 1 min
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“A magisterial history” (The Guardian) of humanity’s greatest natural disaster—the Black Death—that reveals the true global impact and terrible human cost of this calamity, from the renowned author of The Crusades and The Greatest Knight. “Terrific—and truly terrifying. Thomas...
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The Black Death
- A Global History of Humanity's Most Devastating Pandemic
- Narrated by: Thomas Asbridge, Justin Avoth
- Length: 19 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 26-05-26
- Language: English
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