19th Century

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    • The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers
    • By: Peter FitzSimons
    • Narrated by: Michael Carman
    • Length: 23 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 31-10-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 515 ratings
    • The iconic Australian exploration story - brought to life by Peter FitzSimons, Australia's storyteller....

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    • Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
    • By: Joan Druett
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • In 1864, Captain Thomas Musgrave and his crew of four aboard the schooner Grafton wreck on the southern end of Auckland Island....

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    • By: Alexander Mikaberidze
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 35 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 17-12-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • The Napoleonic Wars saw fighting on an unprecedented scale in Europe and the Americas. It took the wealth of the British Empire, combined with the might of the continental armies, almost two decades to bring down one of the world's greatest military leaders and the empire he had created....

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    • The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front
    • By: Günter K. Koschorrek
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 24-07-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 250 ratings
    • Gunter K. Koschorrek was a machine-gunner on the Russian front in WWII. This book stands as a memorial to the huge numbers on both sides who did not survive and is, over five decades later, the fulfillment of a responsibility he feels to honor the memory of those who perished....

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    • By: Dr. Catie Gilchrist
    • Narrated by: Emma Grant Williams
    • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Most of us today rarely see a dead body. In 19th-century Sydney, when health was precarious and workplaces and the busy city streets were often dangerous, witnessing a death was rather common. And any death that was sudden or suspicious would be investigated by the coroner....

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    • The Terrible True Story of Louisa Collins
    • By: Caroline Overington
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Vuletic
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • In January 1889, Louisa Collins, a mother of 10 children, became the first woman hanged at Darlinghurst Gaol and the last woman hanged in New South Wales. Both of Louisa's husbands had died suddenly and the Crown, convinced that Louisa poisoned them with arsenic, put her on trial....

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    • By: Robert Macklin
    • Narrated by: Michael Carman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 25-06-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • In 1858, 14-year-old Narcisse Pelletier sailed from Marseilles in the French trader Saint-Paul. With a cargo of wine, they stopped in Bombay, then Hong Kong, and from there they set sail with more than 300 Chinese prospectors bound for the goldfields of Ballarat and Bendigo....

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    • By: Orlando Figes
    • Narrated by: Malk Williams
    • Length: 20 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • The terrible conflict that dominated the mid-19th century, the Crimean War, killed at least 800,000 men and pitted Russia against a formidable coalition of Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire....

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    • By: Charles Darwin
    • Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
    • Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-2007
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • A literally world-changing book, Darwin put forward the anti-religious and scientific idea that humans in fact evolved over millions of generations from animals....

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    • A History of the Slaveship that Fought for Emancipation
    • By: Stephen Taylor
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 24-09-2024
    • Language: English
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    • The dramatic biography of a slaveship turned freedom-fighter-which brings new insights into Britain's involvement in the end of the trade in enslaved people.

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    • The Life of a City, 1840-1870
    • By: Liza Picard
    • Narrated by: Anton Lesser
    • Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 19-04-2006
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • All the splendours and horrors of Victorian life will be vividly recalled....

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    • By: Henry Mayhew
    • Narrated by: David Timson
    • Length: 27 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 30-08-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • London Labour and the London Poor is a rare and fascinating insight into the lives and struggles of the 19th-century poor. Written by journalist and reformer Henry Mayhew, it collects hundreds of testimonials from the lower strata of Victorian society....

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    • Sex Workers in Nineteenth-Century Melbourne
    • By: Barbara Minchinton
    • Narrated by: Fiona Macleod, James Saunders
    • Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 01-10-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Sex workers in 19th-century Melbourne were judged morally corrupt by the respectable world around them. But theirs was a thriving trade, with links to the police and political leaders of the day, and the leading brothels were usually managed by women....

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    • A Military History of the Civil War
    • By: Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, Williamson Murray
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 24 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 26-09-2017
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • The Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen....

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    • By: Andrew Marr
    • Narrated by: David Timson
    • Length: 20 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-2016
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation was shaken by war and peace....

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    • Bushranger Frank Gardiner and the Biggest Gold Robbery in Australian History
    • By: Ian W. Shaw
    • Narrated by: Steve Shanahan
    • Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 13-08-2024
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The first comprehensive biography of the godfather of Australian bushranging–Frank Gardiner–leader of the Lachlan gang and mastermind of the largest gold heist in Australian history.

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    • A Biography (250th Birthday Edition)
    • By: Lucy Worsley
    • Narrated by: Lucy Worsley
    • Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 26-09-2024
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth, Lucy Worsley has written an Introduction to her Sunday Times Bestselling biography - the book that leads us into the rooms from which our best-loved novelist quietly changed the world.

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