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  • Henry VIII: King and Court cover art

    • Henry VIII: King and Court

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

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    • Mary Boleyn

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

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    • The Borgias

    • Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy
    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings

    • The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice, and vicious cruelty - all have been associated with their name. And yet, paradoxically, this family lived when the Renaissance was coming into its full flowering in Italy....

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    • Spycraft

    • Tricks and Tools of the Dangerous Trade from Elizabeth I to the Restoration
    • By: Pete Langman, Nadine Akkerman
    • Narrated by: Nan McNamara
    • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 25-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • In this engaging, accessible account, Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman explore the methods spies actually used in the period, including disguises, invisible inks, and even poisons....

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    • Great Ladies

    • The Forgotten Witnesses to the Lives of Tudor Queens
    • By: Sylvia Barbara Soberton
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Jasicki
    • Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings

    • There has been a great deal written about Tudor queens, but less so about those women who surrounded the throne, who may have held even more power and influence than those who actually wore the golden crown. This is the story of the ladies of the Tudor court....

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    • Elizabeth's London

    • Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
    • By: Liza Picard
    • Narrated by: Liza Picard
    • Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 26-07-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Like its popular and acclaimed predecessors, Restoration London and Dr Johnson's London....

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    • The Teutonic Knights

    • A Military History
    • By: William Urban
    • Narrated by: Brian Troxell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 22-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • The Teutonic Knights were powerful and ferocious advocates of holy war. 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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    • Catherine de' Medici

    • The Life and Times of the Serpent Queen
    • By: Mary Hollingsworth
    • Narrated by: Rachel Bavidge, Sophie Hunter
    • Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • History is rarely kind to women of power, but few have had their reputations quite so brutally shredded as Catherine de’ Medici, Italian-born queen of France and influential mother of three successive French kings.

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  • How the Medici Shaped the Renaissance cover art

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    • The Habsburg Way

    • 7 Rules for Turbulent Times
    • By: Eduard Habsburg
    • Narrated by: Eduard Habsburg
    • Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • Eduard Habsburg, a member of the family and archduke of Austria, shares insights about the Seven Principles (maxims) at the root of Habsburg thought, action, politics, and family life....

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  • Legends of the Renaissance: The Life and Legacy of Leonardo da Vinci cover art

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  • Legends of the Renaissance: The Life and Legacy of Michelangelo cover art

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    • The Voynich Manuscript

    • The History of the Mysterious Renaissance Codex That Has Never Been Deciphered
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Bill Hare
    • Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
    • Release date: 15-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A diverse array of ancient and modern cryptographic challenges exists today. Among the most famous is a 600-year-old document that continues to mystify: the Voynich Manuscript....

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    • Out of Italy

    • Two Centuries of World Domination and Demise
    • By: Fernand Braudel, Siân Reynolds - translator
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • In the fifteenth century, even before the city states of the Apennine Peninsula began to coalesce into what would become, several centuries later, a nation, "Italy" exerted enormous influence over all of Europe and throughout the Mediterranean....

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    • Providence Lost

    • The Rise and Fall of Cromwell's Protectorate
    • By: Paul Lay
    • Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 26-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 78 ratings

    • England, 1651. Oliver Cromwell has defeated his royalist opponents in two civil wars, executed the Stuart King Charles I, laid waste to Ireland, and crushed the late king's son and his Scottish allies....

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    • The Borgias

    • The Hidden History
    • By: G. J. Meyer
    • Narrated by: Enn Reitel
    • Length: 19 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Useful Enemies

    • Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750
    • By: Noel Malcolm
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 16 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 21-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings

    • From the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the 18th century, many Western European writers viewed the Ottoman Empire with almost obsessive interest. In this path-breaking audiobook, Noel Malcolm ranges through these vital centuries of East-West interaction....

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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
    • Release date: 09-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • In 1474, a 23-year-old woman ascended the throne of Castile, the largest and strongest kingdom in Spain. Ahead of her lay the challenge of being a young female ruler....

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    • Beatrice's Last Smile

    • By: Mark Gregory Pegg
    • Narrated by: Richard Burnip
    • Length: 21 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 15-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

    • A new history of the Middle Ages, Beatrice's Last Smile reveals how Christianity and Islam evolved out of a shared cultural and religious ferment, and how this shaped the development of the West....

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