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Free Download The War of the Roses: An Alternative History of Britain (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CPN697BK | 2023 | 9 hours and 42 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 282 MB
Author: Timothy Venning
Narrator: Liam Gerrard
Timothy Venning’s exploration of the alternative paths that British history might easily have taken moves on to the Wars of the Roses. What if Richard of York had not given battle in vain? How would a victory for Warwick the Kingmaker at the Battle of Barnet changed the course of the struggle for power? What if the Princes had escaped from the tower or the Stanleys had not betrayed their king at Bosworth? These are just a few of the fascinating questions posed by this book. As always, while necessarily speculative, Dr. Venning discusses all the scenarios within the benefit of a deep understanding of the major driving forces, tensions, and trends that shaped British history. In so doing, he helps the listener to understand why things panned out as they did, as well as what might have been in this tumultuous period.

Free Download The War of the Roses: An Alternative History of Britain (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CPN697BK | 2023 | 9 hours and 42 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 282 MB
Author: Timothy Venning
Narrator: Liam Gerrard
Timothy Venning’s exploration of the alternative paths that British history might easily have taken moves on to the Wars of the Roses. What if Richard of York had not given battle in vain? How would a victory for Warwick the Kingmaker at the Battle of Barnet changed the course of the struggle for power? What if the Princes had escaped from the tower or the Stanleys had not betrayed their king at Bosworth? These are just a few of the fascinating questions posed by this book. As always, while necessarily speculative, Dr. Venning discusses all the scenarios within the benefit of a deep understanding of the major driving forces, tensions, and trends that shaped British history. In so doing, he helps the listener to understand why things panned out as they did, as well as what might have been in this tumultuous period.

Free Download Templars: The Knights Who Made Britain (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKM2QZLC | 2023 | 10 hours and 53 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 309 MB
Author: Steve Tibble
Narrator: Michael Page
A gripping account of the Knights Templar, challenging received wisdom to show how these devout medieval knights played a profound role in making modern Britain. The Knights Templar have an enduring reputation-but not one they would recognize. Originally established in the twelfth century to protect pilgrims, the Order is remembered today for heresy, fanaticism, and even satanism. In this bold new interpretation, Steve Tibble sets out to correct the record. The Templars, famous for their battles on Christendom’s eastern front, were in fact dedicated peace-mongers at home.

Free Download One Fine Day: Britain’s Empire on the Brink (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWK96B7L | 2023 | 27 hours and 11 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 792 MB
Author: Matthew Parker
Narrator: Ben Onwukwe
This critical historical exploration shows a portrait of the British Empire at both the peak of its global reach and the moment it began to topple. September 29, 1923. Once the Palestine Mandate officially takes effect, the British Empire-now covering a quarter of the world’s land and boasting a population of 460 million-is the largest the world has ever seen. But it is also an empire in rapid transition. Nationalist and Pan-African movements are gaining momentum throughout West Africa, thanks as much to Marcus Garvey as to the sustained efforts of local activists and politicians.

Free Download On the World Around Us: 25 Explorations of Britain, Past and Present (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BMGB47Y2 | 2023 | 6 hours and 49 minutes | MP3@128 kbps | 376 MB
Author: Andrew Martin
Narrator: Andrew Martin
Andrew Martin reflects on Britain’s customs, attitudes and social and supernatural phenomena in these six BBC Radio series. Drawn from Radio 3’s The Essay strand and presented by journalist and award-winning author Andrew Martin, this beguiling collection brings together his witty, Alan Bennett-esque observations on England’s disappearing pastimes, rituals and beliefs. Yorkshire sees him musing on the county of his birth and upbringing, as he considers his ‘Tyke’ identity and the ancient rivalry between Yorkshire and Lancashire; chews over questions of class in ‘God’s Own County’; ponders its past and future; and recalls the coastal jaunts of his youth. In Hanging On, Martin celebrates five aspects of British life that are still with us – just, as he raises a toast to the boating pond; the ventriloquist’s doll; the telephone; the milkman and sex shops.

Free Download Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CPN3RNZ8 | 2023 | 17 hours and 27 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 496 MB
Author: Caroline Elkins
Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt
As part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler, the British colonial government detained nearly the entire population of Kenya’s largest ethnic minority, the Kikuyu-some one and a half million people. The compelling story of the system of prisons and work camps where thousands met their deaths has remained largely untold-the victim of a determined effort by the British to destroy all official records of their attempts to stop the Mau Mau uprising, the Kikuyu people’s ultimately successful bid for Kenyan independence. Caroline Elkins, an assistant professor of history at Harvard University, spent a decade in London, Nairobi, and the Kenyan countryside interviewing hundreds of Kikuyu men and women who survived the British camps, as well as the British and African loyalists who detained them. The result is an unforgettable account of the unraveling of the British colonial empire in Kenya-a pivotal moment in twentieth-century history with chilling parallels to America’s own imperial project.

Free Download How They Broke Britain (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C9DHKY98 | 2023 | 10 hours and 23 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 568 MB
Author: James O’Brien
Narrator: James O’Brien
Something has gone really wrong in Britain. Our economy has tanked, our freedoms are shrinking, and social divisions are growing. Our politicians seem most interested in their own careers, and much of the media only make things worse. We are living in a country almost unrecognisable from the one that existed a decade ago. But whose fault is it really? Who broke Britain and how did they do it? Bold and incisive as ever, James O’Brien reveals the shady network of influence that has created a broken Britain of strikes, shortages and scandals. He maps the web connecting dark think tanks to Downing Street, the journalists complicit in selling it to the public and the media bosses pushing their own agendas. Over ten chapters, each focusing on a particular person complicit in the downfall, James O’Brien reveals how a select few have conspired – sometimes by incompetence, sometimes by design – to bring Britain to its knees.

Free Download An Alternative History of Britain: The Anglo-Saxon Age (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CLVXFQ58 | 2023 | 10 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 289 MB
Author: Timothy Venning
Narrator: Liam Gerrard
Timothy Venning explores the various decision points in a fascinating period of British history and the alternative paths that it might have taken. Dr. Timothy Venning starts within an outline of the process by which much of Britain came to be settled by Germanic tribes after the end of Roman rule, as far as it can be determined from the sparse and fragmentary sources. He then moves on to discuss a series of scenarios, which might have altered the course of subsequent history dramatically. For example, was a reconquest by the native British ever a possibility (under ‘Arthur’ or someone else)? Which of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms might have united England sooner and would this have kept the Danes out? And, of course, what if Harold Godwinson had won at Hastings? While necessarily speculative, all the scenarios are discussed within the framework of a deep understanding of the major driving forces, tensions and trends that shaped British history and help to shed light upon them. In so doing they help the listener to understand why things panned out as they did, as well as what might have been.

Free Download Women’s Health in Britain and America: Texts and Contexts by April Patrick
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 475 Pages | ISBN : 3031412567 | 12.8 MB
Women’s Health in Britain and America: Texts and Contexts offers an unparalleled record of women’s health in the United Kingdom and the United States since 1750. Through chapters on pregnancy and childbirth, contraception and abortion, and breast and gynecological cancers, today’s readers can better understand historical precedents for contemporary issues. Introductory overviews present context about the history of medical care for women, such as diagnosis and treatment of specific conditions, medical advances, social and political contexts, and the effects of these on their lived experiences. The book presents a collection of primary texts including archival memoirs, letters, and diaries as well as published fiction, poetry, and medical advice. Women’s Health in Britain and America provides the necessary background for those new to the subject while also offering unique texts that will engage those already immersed in the field. As the political and social discussions around women’s bodies become more contentious and consequential, the history and the multiplicity of voices presented on these pages are more important than ever.

Free Download Mark Simner, "The Lion and the Dragon: Britain’s Opium Wars with China 1839-1860"
English | ISBN: 1781557179 | 2019 | 304 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
During the middle of the 19th-Century, Britain and China would twice go to war over trade, and in particular the trade in opium. The Chinese people had progressively become addicted to the narcotic, a habit that British merchants were more than happy to feed from their opium-poppy fields in India. When the Qing dynasty rulers of China attempted to suppress this trade-due to the serious social and economic problems it caused-the British Government responded with gunboat diplomacy, and conflict soon ensued.