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 172 ratings
    • Judith Flanders, one of Britain's foremost social historians, explores the world portrayed so vividly in Dickens' novels....

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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 100 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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    • 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 20 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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    • 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 136 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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    • Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858
    • By: Rosemary Ashton
    • Narrated by: Corrie James
    • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Historian Rosemary Ashton reveals in this compelling microhistory that London in 1858 was marked by significant, if unrecognized, turning points....

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    • Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever
    • By: Lydia Reeder
    • Narrated by: Sara Sheckells
    • Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • How Victorian male doctors used false science to argue that women were unfit for anything but motherhood—and the brilliant doctor who defied them.

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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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    • 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 150 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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    • 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 105 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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    • A Captivating Guide to the Life of Queen Victoria and an Era in the History of the United Kingdom Known for Its Hierarchy-Based Social Order
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Kevin Hung-Liang
    • Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • When Queen Victoria stepped onto the throne of Great Britain and Ireland in 1837, gone were the days when the monarch had supreme authority over the kingdom....

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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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    • 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 62 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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    • 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 662 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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    • By: Emilie Autumn
    • Narrated by: Emilie Autumn
    • Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 218 ratings
    • Two young women, living centuries apart, both accused of madness, communicate across time to fight a common enemy...their doctors. Emilie begins a secret diary to document her terrifying experience and to maintain her sanity in the asylum for wayward Victorian girls. But when Emilie opens her notebook to find a desperate letter from a young woman, imprisoned within an insane asylum in Victorian England and bearing her own name and description, a portal to another world is blasted wide open.

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    • In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames
    • By: Lara Maiklem
    • Narrated by: Xanthe Elbrick
    • Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 92 ratings
    • A quixotic journey through London's past, Mudlark plumbs the banks of the Thames to reveal the stories hidden behind the archaeological remnants of an ancient city....

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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 230 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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    • Winner Takes All, Book 1
    • By: Kate Noble
    • Narrated by: Beverley A. Crick
    • Series: Winner Takes All, Book 1
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 07-22-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 153 ratings
    • Making a wager that he can have any woman he desires even without his title, Ned switches places with John Turner, his friend and secretary. But once he does, Ned's luck suddenly abandons him....

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    • By: Simon Young
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Johns
    • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In the last fifty years, folklorists have amassed an extraordinary corpus of contemporary legends including "the Choking Doberman," "the Eaten Ticket," and "the Vanishing Hitchhiker." But what about the urban legends of the past? These legends and tales have rarely been collected....

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    • Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
    • By: Lindsey Fitzharris
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,378 ratings
    • In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of 19th-century surgery on the eve of profound transformation....

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