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Thomas Cromwell
- A Life
- By: Diarmaid MacCulloch
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 26 hrs and 38 mins
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Thomas Cromwell by Diarmid MacCulloch, read by David Rintoul. Thomas Cromwell is one of the most famous - or notorious - figures in English history. Born in obscurity in Putney, he became a fixer for Cardinal Wolsey in the 1520s. After Wolsey's fall, Henry VIII promoted him to a series of ever greater offices, and by the end of the 1530s he was effectively running the country for the King.
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Enormously interesting and very entertaining.
- By Campesque on 21-12-18
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Thomas Cromwell
- A Life
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 26 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 27-09-18
- Language: English
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The King's Painter
- The Life and Times of Hans Holbein
- By: Franny Moyle
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
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Hans Holbein the Younger is chiefly celebrated for his beautiful and precisely realised portraiture, which includes representations of Henry VIII, Thomas More, Thomas Cromwell, Anne of Cleves, Jane Seymour and an array of the Tudor lords and ladies he encountered during the course of two sojourns in England. But beyond these familiar images, which have come to define our perception of the world of the Henrician court, Holbein was a protean and multi-faceted genius.
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Master artist
- By Elizabeth Pegg(manners) on 22-07-23
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The King's Painter
- The Life and Times of Hans Holbein
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 12-05-22
- Language: English
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The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
- By: Jacob Burckhardt
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
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In this landmark study of Italy from the 14th through the early 16th centuries, Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt chronicles the rise of Florence and Venice as powerful city-states, the breakup of the medieval worldview that came with the rediscovery of Greek and Roman culture, and the new emphasis on the role of the individual. All these, Burckhardt explains, went hand in hand with the explorations of science and the more naturalistic depiction of the world in art and literature.
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The Cultural Life Of The Italian Renaissance
- By Stephen Gott on 21-07-20
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The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 08-11-06
- Language: English
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The Great White Bard
- Shakespeare, Race and the Future
- By: Farah Karim-Cooper
- Narrated by: Farah Karim-Cooper
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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Professor Farah Karim-Cooper grew up loving the Bard, perhaps because Romeo and Juliet felt Pakistani to her. But why was being white as a ‘snowy dove’ essential to Juliet’s beauty? Combining piercing analysis of race, gender and otherness in beloved plays from Othello to The Tempest with a radical reappraisal of Elizabethan London, The Great White Bard entreats us neither to idealise nor to fossilise Shakespeare but instead to look him in the eye and reckon with the discomforts of his plays, playhouses and society.
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Eye-opening and highly necessary!
- By Jess on 04-01-24
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The Great White Bard
- Shakespeare, Race and the Future
- Narrated by: Farah Karim-Cooper
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 15-08-23
- Language: English
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The Library
- A Fragile History
- By: Andrew Pettegree, Arthur Der Weduwen
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
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Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed in a single day, ornamented with gold leaf and frescoes or filled with bean bags and children's drawings - the history of the library is rich, varied and stuffed full of incident. In this, the first major history of its kind, Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen explore the contested and dramatic history of the library
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Liked this so much I bought the hardback
- By AWK on 05-11-21
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The Library
- A Fragile History
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 14-10-21
- Language: English
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The Borgias
- The Hidden History
- By: G. J. Meyer
- Narrated by: Enn Reitel
- Length: 19 hrs and 58 mins
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The startling truth behind one of the most notorious dynasties in history is revealed in a remarkable new account by the acclaimed author of The Tudors and A World Undone. Sweeping aside the gossip, slander, and distortion that have shrouded the Borgias for centuries, G. J. Meyer offers an unprecedented portrait of the infamous Renaissance family and their storied milieu.
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Great story... Impossible narration
- By Marc on 01-08-13
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The Borgias
- The Hidden History
- Narrated by: Enn Reitel
- Length: 19 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 02-04-13
- Language: English
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Blenheim
- Battle for Europe
- By: Charles Spencer
- Narrated by: Charles Spenser
- Length: 6 hrs
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By the summer of 1704, Louis XIV's vast armies dominated Europe. France defeated every alliance formed against her and Louis was poised to extend his frontier to the Rhine and install a French prince on the throne of Spain. Two men saved Europe from French military domination: the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy. Marlborough masterminded a brilliant campaign, working with Eugene to surprise the French invaders inside Germany.
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Excellent
- By Chris on 05-02-12
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Blenheim
- Battle for Europe
- Narrated by: Charles Spenser
- Length: 6 hrs
- Release date: 09-08-06
- Language: English
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The Teutonic Knights
- A Military History
- By: William Urban
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
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The Teutonic Knights were powerful and ferocious advocates of holy war. Their history is suffused with crusading, campaigning, and struggle. Feared by their enemies but respected by medieval Christendom, the knights and their Order maintained a firm hold over the Baltic and Northern Germany and established a formidable regime that flourished across Central Europe for 300 years. William Urban's narrative charts the rise and fall of the Order and, in an accessible and engaging style, throws light on a band of knights whose deeds and motives have long been misunderstood.
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The Teutonic Knights
- A Military History
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 22-08-22
- Language: English
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The Reformation
- History in an Hour
- By: Edward A. Gosselin
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
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Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.
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Too much in an hour
- By Ian on 11-10-18
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The Reformation
- History in an Hour
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Release date: 16-01-13
- Language: English
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Princes of the Renaissance
- By: Mary Hollingsworth
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
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A history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most influential patrons. From the late Middle Ages, the independent Italian city states were taken over by powerful families who installed themselves as dynastic rulers. Inspired by the humanists, the princes of 15th- and 16th-century Italy immersed themselves in the culture of antiquity, commissioning palaces, villas and churches inspired by the architecture of ancient Rome, and offering patronage to artists and writers.
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Well written tremendously interesting
- By C. De Vico on 21-04-24
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Princes of the Renaissance
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 04-02-21
- Language: English
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Elizabeth
- The Forgotten Years
- By: John Guy
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings
- Length: 17 hrs and 16 mins
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History has pictured Elizabeth I as Gloriana, an icon of strength and power - and has focused on the early years of her reign. But in 1583, when Elizabeth is 50, there is relentless plotting among her courtiers - and still to come is the Spanish Armada and the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots. We have not, until now, had the full picture.
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Brilliant
- By Kay Howlett on 12-06-17
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Elizabeth
- The Forgotten Years
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings
- Length: 17 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 08-06-16
- Language: English
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The Gunpowder Plot
- By: Antonia Fraser
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
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With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded the fateful night of November 5th 1605, she unravels the tangled web of religion and politics that spawned the plot.
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A Roller Coaster
- By Alan on 26-12-08
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The Gunpowder Plot
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 03-01-07
- Language: English
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All His Spies
- The Secret World of Robert Cecil
- By: Stephen Alford
- Length: Not Yet Known
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Robert Cecil, statesman and spymaster, lived through an astonishingly threatening period in English history. Queen Elizabeth had no clear successor and enemies both external and internal threatened to destroy England as a Protestant state, most spectacularly with the Spanish Armada and the Gunpowder Plot. All His Spies is a wonderfully engaging and original work of history. Many listeners are familiar with the great events of this tumultuous time, but All His Spies shows how easily these dramas could have turned out very differently.
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All His Spies
- The Secret World of Robert Cecil
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 04-07-24
- Language: English
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Isabella of Castile
- Europe's First Great Queen
- By: Giles Tremlett
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 19 hrs and 33 mins
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In 1474, a 23-year-old woman ascended the throne of Castile, the largest and strongest kingdom in Spain. Ahead of her lay the considerable challenge not only of being a young female ruler in an overwhelmingly male-dominated world but also of reforming a major European kingdom that was riddled with crime, corruption, and violent political factionism. Her pivotal reign was long and transformative, uniting Spain and setting the stage for its golden era of global dominance.
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A fascinating but grim tale, very well read.
- By Philadelphus on 17-01-20
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Isabella of Castile
- Europe's First Great Queen
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 19 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 09-02-17
- Language: English
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Mary Queen of Scots
- Film Tie-In
- By: John Guy
- Narrated by: Jan Cramer
- Length: 22 hrs and 55 mins
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Who was the real Mary Queen of Scots? The most enigmatic ruler of England lived a life of incredible drama and turmoil: crowned Queen of Scotland at nine months old, and Queen of France at 16 years, she grew up in the crosshairs of Europe's political battles to become Queen Elizabeth's archrival.
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Absolutely brilliant book.
- By Rozenda on 30-01-19
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Mary Queen of Scots
- Film Tie-In
- Narrated by: Jan Cramer
- Length: 22 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 17-01-19
- Language: English
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The Verge
- Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years That Shook the World
- By: Patrick Wyman
- Narrated by: Patrick Wyman
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
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In the best-selling tradition of The Swerve and A Distant Mirror, The Verge tells the story of a period that marked a decisive turning point for both European and world history. Here, author Patrick Wyman examines two complementary and contradictory sides of the same historical coin: the world-altering implications of the developments of printed mass media, extreme taxation, exploitative globalization, humanistic learning, gunpowder warfare, and mass religious conflict in the long term, and their intensely disruptive consequences in the short-term.
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Accessible, quality history...
- By Jaki on 23-07-21
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The Verge
- Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years That Shook the World
- Narrated by: Patrick Wyman
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 20-07-21
- Language: English
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Magus
- The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa
- By: Anthony Grafton
- Narrated by: Nick Pearse
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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At the heart of the extraordinary ferment of the High Renaissance stood a distinctive, strange and beguiling figure: the magus. An unstable mix of scientist, bibliophile, engineer, fabulist and fraud, the magus ushered in modern physics and chemistry while also working on everything from secret codes to siege engines to magic tricks. Anthony Grafton's wonderfully original book discusses the careers of men who somehow managed to be both figures of startling genius and - by some measures - credulous or worse.
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Magus
- The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa
- Narrated by: Nick Pearse
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 22-02-24
- Language: English
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Six Wives
- The Queens of Henry VIII
- By: David Starkey
- Narrated by: Patricia Hodge
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
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The first of Henry VIII's wives was Catherine of Aragon, the pious Catholic princess who suffered years of miscarriages and still births and yet failed to produce a male heir.
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I now know a lot more!
- By Harold on 27-07-08
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Six Wives
- The Queens of Henry VIII
- Narrated by: Patricia Hodge
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 24-06-05
- Language: English
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Henrietta Maria
- Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen
- By: Leanda de Lisle
- Narrated by: Daphne Kouma
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
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Henrietta Maria is the most reviled consort to have worn the crown of Britain's Three Kingdoms. Condemned as that 'Popish brat of France', a 'notorious whore' and traitor, she remains in popular memory the wife who wore the breeches and turned her husband Catholic—so causing a civil war—and a cruel and bigoted mother. Leanda de Lisle's White King was hailed as 'the definitive modern biography about Charles I' (Observer). Here she considers Henrietta Maria's point of view, unpicking the myths to reveal a very different queen.
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excellent thanks
- By Becky Marlow on 29-11-22
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Henrietta Maria
- Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen
- Narrated by: Daphne Kouma
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 04-08-22
- Language: English
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The Lion House
- The Rise of Suleyman the Magnificent
- By: Christopher de Bellaigue
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
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Venice, 1522. Intelligence arrives from the east confirming Europe's greatest fear: the vastly rich Ottoman Sultan has all he needs to wage total war - and his sights are set on Rome. With Christendom divided, Suleyman the Magnificent has his hand on its entrails. From the palaces of Istanbul to the blood-soaked fields of Central Europe and the scorched coasts of North Africa, The Lion House pioneers a bold new style of eye-witness history to tell a true story of power at its most glittering, personal and perilous.
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A Rare exquisite glimpse into the Ottoman Empire
- By DeltaAlphaXray on 19-03-22
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The Lion House
- The Rise of Suleyman the Magnificent
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 03-03-22
- Language: English
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