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Christopher Winn
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Best-selling author Christopher Winn explores Britain's royal past, unearthing a rich legacy of castles and palaces, cathedrals and country retreats, battlefields and monuments where kings and queens lived and died.
In this exploration of royal British history, discover whose heart is buried near the Tower of London, which palace was built on top of a mulberry garden, the world's oldest and largest occupied castle, and the first building in Britain to have latrines.
From the Palace of Scone to the Palace of Westminster; from Pembroke Castle, the birthplace of Henry VII, to Pontefract Castle, where Richard II starved to death; and from banqueting halls to beheading sites, this gem of a book is guaranteed to inform and amuse in equal measure.
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"Packed full of fascinating facts and anecdotes, Christopher Winn's I Never Knew That About Royal Britain contains entertaining trivia about the UK's royal castles and palaces." (Saturday Daily Express)
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Castles, Customs, and Kings
- True Tales by English Historical Fiction Authors
- De: Debra Brown, M.M. Bennetts
- Narrado por: Ruth Golding
- Duración: 25 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 70
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 60
A compilation of essays from the English Historical Fiction Authors blog, this book provides a wealth of historical information from Roman Britain to early 20th-century England. Over 50 different authors share hundreds of real life stories and tantalizing tidbits discovered while doing research for their own historical novels.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Historical Tidbits
- De Troy en 08-03-15
De: Debra Brown, y otros
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Daughters of Chivalry
- The Forgotten Princesses of King Edward Longshanks
- De: Kelcey Wilson-Lee
- Narrado por: Christine Rendel
- Duración: 12 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50
Virginal, chaste, humble, patiently waiting for rescue by brave knights and handsome princes: this idealized—and largely mythical—notion of the medieval noblewoman still lingers. Yet the reality was very different, as Kelcey Wilson-Lee shows in this vibrant account of the five daughters of Edward I, often known as Longshanks. The lives of these sisters—Eleanora, Joanna, Margaret, Mary, and Elizabeth—ran the gamut of experiences open to royal women in the Middle Ages.
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5 out of 5 stars
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DoC
- De Terri Issa en 11-15-23
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Henry VIII: King and Court
- De: Alison Weir
- Narrado por: Phyllida Nash
- Duración: 25 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 488
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 436
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 432
This magnificent biography of Henry VIII is set against the cultural, social and political background of his court - the most spectacular court ever seen in England - and the splendour of his many sumptuous palaces. An entertaining narrative packed with colourful description and a wealth of anecdotal evidence, but also a comprehensive analytical study of the development of both monarch and court during a crucial period in English history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A concise focus with tremendous detail
- De kwdayboise (Kim Day) en 05-24-17
De: Alison Weir
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Taj Mahal
- Passion and Genius at the Heart of the Moghul Empire
- De: Diana Preston, Michael Preston
- Narrado por: James Adams
- Duración: 10 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 118
While Galileo was suffering under house arrest at the hands of Pope Urban VIII, the 30 Years War was ruining Europe, and the Pilgrims were struggling to survive in the New World, work began on what would become one of the Seven Wonders of the World: the Taj Mahal. Built by the Moghul emperor Shah Jahan as a memorial to his beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal, its flawless symmetry and gleaming presence have for centuries dazzled all who have seen it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A broad perspective
- De Neil en 11-01-09
De: Diana Preston, y otros
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Tudor
- Passion. Manipulation. Murder. The Story of England's Most Notorious Royal Family
- De: Leanda de Lisle
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 16 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 106
The Tudors are England's most notorious royal family. But, as Leanda de Lisle's gripping new history reveals, they are a family still more extraordinary than the one we thought we knew. The Tudor canon typically starts with the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 before speeding on to Henry VIII and the Reformation. But this leaves out the family's obscure Welsh origins and the ordinary man known as Owen Tudor who would fall (literally) into a queen's lap - and later her bed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Clear and detailed
- De Tad Davis en 04-13-16
De: Leanda de Lisle
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The Borgias and Their Enemies
- 1431-1519
- De: Christopher Hibbert
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 513
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 459
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 453
The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy. The powerful, voracious Rodrigo Borgia, better known to history as Pope Alexander VI, was the central figure of the dynasty. Two of his seven papal offspring also rose to power and fame. The Borgias were notorious for seizing power, wealth, land, and titles through bribery, marriage, and murder. The story of the family's dramatic rise from its Spanish roots to the highest position in Italian society is an absorbing tale.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Covers the bases, but falls a little flat.
- De Chap Walker en 06-16-13
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Iron, Fire and Ice
- The Real History That Inspired Game of Thrones
- De: Ed West
- Narrado por: Rory Barnett
- Duración: 20 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 538
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 469
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 464
A young pretender raises an army to take the throne. Learning of his father’s death, the adolescent, dashing and charismatic and descended from the old kings of the North, vows to avenge him. He is supported in this war by his mother, who has spirited away her two younger sons to safety. Against them is the queen, passionate, proud, and strong-willed and with more of the masculine virtues of the time than most men. She too is battling for the inheritance of her young son, not yet fully grown but already a sadist who takes delight in watching executions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fun history for all -not just Game of Thrones fans
- De Annabells en 06-14-19
De: Ed West
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Daughters of the Sun
- Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire
- De: Ira Mukhoty
- Narrado por: Shernaz Patel
- Duración: 13 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
In 1526, when the nomadic Timurid warrior-scholar Babur rode into Hindustan, his wives, sisters, daughters, aunts and distant female relatives travelled with him. These women would help establish a dynasty and empire that would rule India for the next 200 years and become a byword for opulence and grandeur. In Daughters of the Sun, we meet remarkable characters like Khanzada Begum who, at 65, rode on horseback through 750 kilometres of icy passes and unforgiving terrain to parley on behalf of her nephew, Humayun....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Repetitive Content
- De Sharmistha en 07-18-22
De: Ira Mukhoty
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Foundation
- The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors: The History of England, Book 1
- De: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrado por: Clive Chafer
- Duración: 18 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 857
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 777
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 772
In Foundation the chronicler of London and of its river, the Thames, takes us from the primeval forests of England's prehistory to the death of the first Tudor king, Henry VII, in 1509. He guides us from the building of Stonehenge to the founding of the two great glories of medieval England: common law and the cathedrals. He shows us glimpses of the country's most distant past - a Neolithic stirrup found in a grave, a Roman fort, a Saxon tomb, a medieval manor house.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Most Annoying Narrator EVER
- De JudieBee en 12-25-15
De: Peter Ackroyd
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Castles
- Their History and Evolution in Medieval Britain
- De: Marc Morris
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 9 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 65
Beginning with their introduction in the 11th century, and ending with their widespread abandonment in the 17th, Marc Morris explores many of the country's most famous castles, as well as some spectacular lesser-known examples. At times this is an epic tale, driven by characters like William the Conqueror, King John, and Edward I, full of sieges and conquest on an awesome scale.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book!
- De B Hart en 06-21-18
De: Marc Morris
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In Search of the Dark Ages
- De: Michael Wood
- Narrado por: Marston York
- Duración: 14 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 67
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 67
In Search of the Dark Ages is an unrivalled exploration of the origins of English identity, and the best-selling book that established Michael Wood as one of Britain's leading historians. Now, on the book's 40th anniversary, this fully revised and expanded edition illuminates further the fascinating and mysterious centuries between the Romans and the Norman Conquest.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant!
- De Dee Goulet en 08-31-22
De: Michael Wood
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The House of Medici
- Its Rise and Fall
- De: Christopher Hibbert
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 11 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 158
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 145
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 145
This enthralling book charts the family's huge influence on the political, economic, and cultural history of Florence. Beginning in the early 1430s with the rise of the dynasty under the near-legendary Cosimo de Medici, it moves through their golden era as patrons of some of the most remarkable artists and architects of the Renaissance, to the era of the Medici Popes and Grand Dukes, Florence's slide into decay and bankruptcy, and the end, in 1737, of the Medici line.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Laundry list of names
- De Elizabeth W en 01-02-17
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George and Marina
- Duke and Duchess of Kent
- De: Christopher Warwick
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 7 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 71
For eight brief years, before he was tragically killed in a mysterious air crash during the Second World War, Prince George, Duke of Kent, son of King George V and Queen Mary, and his beautiful wife, Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, were the British monarchy's - indeed, high society's - most glamorous royal couple; and as golden royal icons, they are still remembered.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Engaging
- De Jean en 06-02-17
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The Wars of the Roses
- The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
- De: Dan Jones
- Narrado por: John Curless
- Duración: 15 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,541
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,117
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,100
The 15th century saw the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history. The crown of England changed hands five times as two branches of the Plantagenet dynasty fought to the death for the right to rule. Now, celebrated historian Dan Jones describes how the longest reigning British royal family tore itself apart until it was finally replaced by the Tudors. Some of the greatest heroes and villains in history were thrown together in these turbulent times.
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5 out of 5 stars
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No Need for a Score Card
- De Troy en 01-16-15
De: Dan Jones
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Behind the Throne
- A Domestic History of the British Royal Household
- De: Adrian Tinniswood
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 14 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 219
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 199
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 198
In Behind the Throne, historian Adrian Tinniswood uncovers the reality of five centuries of life at the English court, taking the listener on a remarkable journey from one Queen Elizabeth to another and exploring life as it was lived by clerks and courtiers and clowns and crowned heads: the power struggles and petty rivalries, the tension between duty and desire, the practicalities of cooking dinner for thousands and of ensuring the king always won when he played a game of tennis.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very Worthwhile
- De G. Cole en 12-13-18
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The Tigress of Forli
- Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de' Medici
- De: Elizabeth Lev
- Narrado por: Edita Brychta
- Duración: 14 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 50
In this glittering biography, Elizabeth Lev reexamines Caterina Sforza's extraordinary life and accomplishments. Raised in the court of Milan and wed at age ten to the pope’s corrupt nephew, Caterina was ensnared in Italy’s political intrigues early in life. After turbulent years in Rome’s papal court, she moved to the Romagnol province of Forlì. Following her husband’s assassination, she ruled Italy’s crossroads with iron will, martial strength, political savvy—and an icon’s fashion sense. In finally losing her lands to the Borgia family, she put up a resistance that inspired all of Europe.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent history of a fearless woman
- De Linda M en 11-18-24
De: Elizabeth Lev
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The Wars of the Roses: A Captivating Guide to the English Civil Wars That Brought down the Plantagenet Dynasty and Put the Tudors on the Throne
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Desmond Manny
- Duración: 3 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 16
The Wars of the Roses were a complex set of battles, skirmishes, and kidnappings during the 15th century in England. They had their roots in the nearby Civil War of France, which greatly influenced English politics for years to come. Though there is no one universally-accepted start or end date for these wars, the major events throughout the wars occurred between 1455 and 1485.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Atrocious narration, poor timing, not recommended
- De B. en 01-21-19
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In this intimate history of the extraordinary Black Plague pandemic that swept through the British Isles in 1665, Evelyn Lord focuses on the plague's effects on smaller towns, where every death was a singular blow affecting the entire community. Lord's fascinating reconstruction of life during plague times presents the personal experiences of a wide range of individuals, from historical notables to common folk. The Great Plague brings this dark era to vivid life through stories of loss and survival from those who grieved, those who fled, and those who hid to await their fate.
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On the heels of her triumphant How to Be a Victorian, Ruth Goodman travels even further back in English history to the era closest to her heart, the dramatic period from the crowning of Henry VII to the death of Elizabeth I. Drawing on her own adventures living in re-created Tudor conditions, Goodman serves as our intrepid guide to 16th-century living. Proceeding from daybreak to bedtime, this charming, illustrative work celebrates the ordinary lives of those who labored through the era.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book!
- De Kathi en 02-18-16
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The Domestic Revolution
- How the Introduction of Coal into Victorian Homes Changed Everything
- De: Ruth Goodman
- Narrado por: Jennifer M. Dixon
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No single invention epitomizes the Victorian era more than the black cast-iron range. Aware that the 21st-century has reduced it to a quaint relic, Ruth Goodman was determined to prove that the hot coal stove provided so much more than morning tea: It might even have kick-started the Industrial Revolution. Wielding the wit and passion seen in How to Be a Victorian, Goodman traces the tectonic shift from wood to coal in the mid-16th century - from sooty trials and errors during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I to the totally smog-clouded reign of Queen Victoria.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Zombie Apocalypse
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Serving Victoria
- Life in the Royal Household
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During her 63-year reign, Queen Victoria gathered around herself a household dedicated to her service. For some, royal employment was the defining experience of their lives; for others it came as an unwelcome duty or as a prelude to greater things. Serving Victoria follows the lives of six members of her household, from the governess to the royal children, from her maid of honor to her chaplain and her personal physician.
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5 out of 5 stars
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- De Joie Bostwick en 01-24-25
De: Kate Hubbard
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The House of Dudley
- A New History of Tudor England
- De: Joanne Paul
- Narrado por: Kristin Atherton
- Duración: 17 h y 13 m
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 44
Each Tudor monarch made their name with a Dudley by their side—or by crushing one beneath their feet. The Dudleys thrived at the court of Henry VII but were sacrificed to the popularity of Henry VIII. Rising to prominence in the reign of Edward VI, the Dudleys lost it all by advancing Jane Grey to the throne over Mary I. That was until the reign of Elizabeth I, when the family was once again at the center of power and would do anything to remain there . . . With three generations of felled favorites, what was it that caused this family to keep rising so high and falling so low?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Blood Sisters
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- De: Sarah Gristwood
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To contemporaries, the Wars of the Roses were known collectively as a "cousins' war." The series of dynastic conflicts that tore apart the ruling Plantagenet family in 15th-century England was truly a domestic drama, as fraught and intimate as any family feud before or since. As acclaimed historian Sarah Gristwood reveals in Blood Sisters, while the events of this turbulent time are usually described in terms of the male leads who fought and died seeking the throne, a handful of powerful women would prove just as decisive as their kinfolks' clashing armies.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The narrator is killing me....
- De DaNick en 10-02-20
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The Great Plague
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In this intimate history of the extraordinary Black Plague pandemic that swept through the British Isles in 1665, Evelyn Lord focuses on the plague's effects on smaller towns, where every death was a singular blow affecting the entire community. Lord's fascinating reconstruction of life during plague times presents the personal experiences of a wide range of individuals, from historical notables to common folk. The Great Plague brings this dark era to vivid life through stories of loss and survival from those who grieved, those who fled, and those who hid to await their fate.
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On the heels of her triumphant How to Be a Victorian, Ruth Goodman travels even further back in English history to the era closest to her heart, the dramatic period from the crowning of Henry VII to the death of Elizabeth I. Drawing on her own adventures living in re-created Tudor conditions, Goodman serves as our intrepid guide to 16th-century living. Proceeding from daybreak to bedtime, this charming, illustrative work celebrates the ordinary lives of those who labored through the era.
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- De: Ruth Goodman
- Narrado por: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Duración: 11 h y 17 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 93
No single invention epitomizes the Victorian era more than the black cast-iron range. Aware that the 21st-century has reduced it to a quaint relic, Ruth Goodman was determined to prove that the hot coal stove provided so much more than morning tea: It might even have kick-started the Industrial Revolution. Wielding the wit and passion seen in How to Be a Victorian, Goodman traces the tectonic shift from wood to coal in the mid-16th century - from sooty trials and errors during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I to the totally smog-clouded reign of Queen Victoria.
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To contemporaries, the Wars of the Roses were known collectively as a "cousins' war." The series of dynastic conflicts that tore apart the ruling Plantagenet family in 15th-century England was truly a domestic drama, as fraught and intimate as any family feud before or since. As acclaimed historian Sarah Gristwood reveals in Blood Sisters, while the events of this turbulent time are usually described in terms of the male leads who fought and died seeking the throne, a handful of powerful women would prove just as decisive as their kinfolks' clashing armies.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The narrator is killing me....
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Henry VIII: King and Court
- De: Alison Weir
- Narrado por: Phyllida Nash
- Duración: 25 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 436
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 432
This magnificent biography of Henry VIII is set against the cultural, social and political background of his court - the most spectacular court ever seen in England - and the splendour of his many sumptuous palaces. An entertaining narrative packed with colourful description and a wealth of anecdotal evidence, but also a comprehensive analytical study of the development of both monarch and court during a crucial period in English history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A concise focus with tremendous detail
- De kwdayboise (Kim Day) en 05-24-17
De: Alison Weir
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Mutants
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- De: Armand Marie Leroi
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 24
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Stepping effortlessly from myth to cutting-edge science, Mutants gives a brilliant narrative account of our genetic code and the captivating people whose bodies have revealed it - a French convent girl who found herself changing sex at puberty; children who, echoing Homer's Cyclops, are born with a single eye in the middle of their foreheads; a village of long-lived Croatian dwarves; one family, whose bodies were entirely covered with hair, was kept at the Burmese royal court for four generations and gave Darwin one of his keenest insights into heredity.
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Fascinating
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As the only child of the Prince Regent and Caroline of Brunswick, Princess Charlotte of Wales (1796-1817) was the heiress presumptive to the throne. Her parents' marriage had already broken up by the time she was born. She had a difficult childhood and a turbulent adolescence, but she was popular with the public, who looked to her to restore the good name of the monarchy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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excellent
- De meganajjcec en 10-12-20
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Poisons
- From Hemlock to Botox and the Killer Bean Calabar
- De: Peter Macinnis
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 74
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 73
A wide-ranging and provocative look - teeming with little-known facts and engaging stories - at a subject of the direst interest. Poisons permeate our world. They are in the environment, the workplace, the home. They are in food, our favorite whiskey, medicine, well water. They have been used to cure disease as well as incapacitate and kill. They smooth wrinkles, block pain, stimulate, and enhance athletic ability. In this entertaining and fact-filled audiobook, science writer Peter Macinnis considers poisons in all their aspects. He recounts stories of the celebrated poisoners in history and literature....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Poison, Americas past time
- De Sean’s tunes en 03-05-25
De: Peter Macinnis
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Two Houses, Two Kingdoms
- A History of France and England, 1100-1300
- De: Catherine Hanley
- Narrado por: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Duración: 15 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
The twelfth and thirteenth centuries were a time of personal monarchy, when the close friendship or petty feuding between kings and queens could determine the course of history. The Capetians of France and the Angevins of England waged war, made peace, and intermarried. In this lively history, Catherine Hanley traces the great clashes, and occasional friendships, of the two dynasties. Along the way, she emphasizes the fascinating and influential women of the houses—including Eleanor of Aquitaine—and shows how personalities and familial bonds shaped the fate of two countries.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great book with a bit of slant
- De Ky en 12-20-22
De: Catherine Hanley
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The King in Love
- Edward VII's Mistresses
- De: Theo Aronson
- Narrado por: Shaun Grindell
- Duración: 13 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 54
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 44
The King in Love is an all-embracing account of the loves of that celebrated royal womanizer, Edward VII - as prince of Wales and as king. It is also a study of the three women with whom the king was most deeply in love - his "official" mistresses, Lillie Langtry, Daisy Warwick, and Alice Keppel.
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3 out of 5 stars
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good read, bad listen
- De Robyn en 09-11-15
De: Theo Aronson
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Great Ladies
- The Forgotten Witnesses to the Lives of Tudor Queens
- De: Sylvia Barbara Soberton
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Jasicki
- Duración: 6 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 33
Some ladies who served at the Tudor court are only faceless silhouettes lost to the sands of time, but there are those who dedicated their lives to please their royal mistresses and left documentation, allowing us to piece their life stories together and link them to the stories of Tudor queens. These female attendants saw their queens and princesses up close and often used their intimate bonds to their own benefit. Some were beloved, others hated. This is the story of the ladies of the Tudor court like you've never heard it before.
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3 out of 5 stars
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the title is deceiving
- De Dr. A. en 12-15-19
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Disaster!
- A History of Earthquakes, Floods, Plagues, and Other Catastrophes
- De: John Withington
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 17 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 54
A comprehensive catalog of the most devastating and deadly events-natural or man-made-in human history. If you follow the news it can seem like injury, sickness, and death are now constant, inescapable occurrences that threaten us every second of every day. But such catastrophic events - as terrible and frightening as they are - have been happening for as long as mankind has walked the Earth.... and even before. From ancient volcanoes and floods to epidemics of cholera and smallpox to Hitler's mass killings in the 20th century, humanity's continued existence has always seemed perilous.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic account of disasters!
- De Gardenstate Reader en 12-30-19
De: John Withington
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English History Made Brief, Irreverent, and Pleasurable
- De: Lacey Baldwin Smith
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
- Duración: 9 h y 43 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,416
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,136
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,128
Here at last is a history of England that is designed to entertain as well as inform and that will delight the armchair traveler, the tourist, or just about anyone interested in history. No people have engendered quite so much acclaim or earned so much censure as the English: extolled as the Athenians of modern times, yet hammered for their self-satisfaction and hypocrisy. But their history has been a spectacular one.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Cartoons mentioned in Publisher's Summary omitted
- De Megan G. en 08-27-18
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Lost Heirs of the Medieval Crown
- The Kings and Queens Who Never Were
- De: J.F. Andrews
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 25
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 25
When William the Conqueror died in 1087, he left the throne of England to William Rufus . . . his second son. The result was an immediate war as Rufus's elder brother Robert fought to gain the crown he saw as rightfully his; this conflict marked the start of 400 years of bloody disputes as the English monarchy's line of hereditary succession was bent, twisted, and finally broken when the last Plantagenet king, Richard III, fell at Bosworth in 1485.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Listen
- De PrettyinPink en 01-03-24
De: J.F. Andrews
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Matilda
- Empress, Queen, Warrior
- De: Catherine Hanley
- Narrado por: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Duración: 12 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 202
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 185
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 183
A life of Matilda - empress, skilled military leader, and one of the greatest figures of the English Middle Ages.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Both entertaining and scholarly
- De Anonymous User en 09-10-19
De: Catherine Hanley
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Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants
- Frequently Asked Questions About the Ancient Greeks and Romans
- De: Garrett Ryan
- Narrado por: Stephen Graybill
- Duración: 7 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 359
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 289
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 289
Why didn't the ancient Greeks or Romans wear pants? How did they shave? How likely were they to drink fine wine, use birth control, or survive surgery? In a series of short and humorous essays, Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants explores some of the questions about the Greeks and Romans that ancient historian Garrett Ryan has answered in the classroom and online. Unlike most books on the classical world, the focus is not on famous figures or events, but on the fascinating details of daily life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Garret Ryan delivers an accessible and thoroughly entertaining deep dive
- De Rafael en 11-03-21
De: Garrett Ryan