Victorian English History

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    • Everyday Life in Dickens' London
    • By: Judith Flanders
    • Narrated by: Corrie James
    • Length: 16 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 171 ratings
    • Judith Flanders, one of Britain's foremost social historians, explores the world portrayed so vividly in Dickens' novels....

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    • The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers
    • By: Tom Standage
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 229 ratings
    • The Victorian Internet tells the colorful story of the telegraph's creation and remarkable impact and of the visionaries, oddballs, and eccentrics who pioneered it....

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    • El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
    • By: Mike Davis
    • Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • ike Davis discloses the relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history....

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    • The Life of the American Beauty Who Became the Toast—and Scandal—of Two Continents, Ruled an Age and Raised a Son—Winston Churchill—Who Shaped History
    • By: Ralph G. Martin
    • Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt
    • Length: 26 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Jennie Churchill was not merely Winston’s mother. She was the most captivating and desired woman of her age. Originally from Brooklyn, Jennie became the reigning queen of British society. Beautiful and defiant, she lived with an honesty that made her the talk of two continents....

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    • How Love Conquered Marriage
    • By: Stephanie Coontz
    • Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu
    • Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-27-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 228 ratings
    • In Marriage, a History, historian and marriage expert Stephanie Coontz takes listeners from the marital intrigues of ancient Babylon to the torments of Victorian lovers....

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    • By: Donald Rumbelow
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 134 ratings
    • Fully updated and revised, Donald Rumbelow's classic work is the ultimate examination of the facts, theories, fictions, and fascinations surrounding the greatest whodunit in history....

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    • How the Introduction of Coal into Victorian Homes Changed Everything
    • By: Ruth Goodman
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 11-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 100 ratings
    • "The queen of living history" (Lucy Worsley) returns with an immersive account of how English women sparked a worldwide revolution - from their own kitchens....

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    • How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
    • By: Judith Flanders
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 19 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • In this fascinating exploration of murder in 19th-century England, Judith Flanders examines some of the most gripping cases that captivated the Victorians and gave rise to the first detective fiction....

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    • Modern Adventures in Nineteenth-Century Culture, Cooking, Fashion, and Technology
    • By: Sarah A. Chrisman
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-24-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • We all know that the best way to study a foreign language is to go to a country where it's spoken, but can the same immersion method be applied to history? Find out....

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    • The Prince of Wales and the Women He Loved
    • By: Catharine Arnold
    • Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
    • Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Edward, Prince of Wales, better known as "Bertie", was the eldest son of Queen Victoria. Charming and dissolute, he was a larger-than-life personality with king-size appetites....

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    • Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
    • By: Saidiya Hartman
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 148 ratings
    • Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the 20th century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes....

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    • A Biography of Princess Louise
    • By: Lucinda Hawksley
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 183 ratings
    • The secrets of Queen Victoria's sixth child, Princess Louise, may be destined to remain hidden forever. What was so dangerous about this artistic, tempestuous royal that her life has been documented more by rumor and gossip than hard facts?....

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    • The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady
    • By: Kate Summerscale
    • Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 06-19-12
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • Kate Summerscale brilliantly recreates the Victorian world, chronicling in exquisite detail the life of Isabella Robinson, wherein the longings of a frustrated wife collided with a society clinging to rigid ideas....

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    • A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest
    • By: Lesley Poling-Kempes
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • Ladies of the Canyons is the true story of remarkable women who left the security and comforts of genteel Victorian society and journeyed to the American Southwest in search of a wider view of themselves and their world....

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    • Conspiracy, Revenge and the Phoenix Park Murders That Stunned Victorian England
    • By: Julie Kavanagh
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 14 hrs
    • Release date: 09-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • One sunlit evening, May 6, 1882, Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke, Chief Secretary and Undersecretary for Ireland, were ambushed and stabbed to death while strolling through Phoenix Park in Dublin....

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    • A History
    • By: Eugene Rogan
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 27 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 658 ratings
    • In this definitive history of the modern Arab world, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on Arab sources and texts to place the Arab experience in its crucial historical context....

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    • Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and of the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes
    • By: Lisa Rosner
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • On Halloween night, 1828, in the West Port district of Edinburgh, Scotland, a woman sometimes known as Madgy Docherty was last seen in the company of William Burke and William Hare. Docherty was the final victim of the most atrocious murder spree of the century....

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    • The Anglo-Arab Wars of 1870-1920
    • By: Neil Faulkner
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 18 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • The Ottoman Sultan called for a "Great Jihad" against the Entente powers at the start of the First World War. He was building on half a century of conflict between British colonialism and the people of the Middle East and North Africa....

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    • The Victorian Jihad, 1869-1899
    • By: Dominic Green
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 151 ratings
    • Three Empires on the Nile tells of the rise of the first modern Islamic state and its fateful encounter with the British Empire of Queen Victoria....

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