British Island History
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Island on Fire
- The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire
- Written by: Tom Zoellner
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
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For five horrific weeks after Christmas in 1831, Jamaica was convulsed by an uprising of its enslaved people. What started as a peaceful labor strike quickly turned into a full-blown revolt, leaving hundreds of plantation houses in smoking ruins. By the time British troops had put down the rebels, more than a thousand Jamaicans lay dead from summary executions and extrajudicial murder. While the rebels lost their military gamble, their sacrifice accelerated the larger struggle for freedom in the British Atlantic.
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so interesting!
- By Dylan McBurnie on 2022-02-07
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Island on Fire
- The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 2020-10-20
- Language: English
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From a New York Times best-selling author, a gripping account of the slave rebellion that led to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire....
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Notes from a Small Island
- Written by: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: Bill Bryson
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
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Bill Bryson is an unabashed Anglophile who, through a mistake of history, happened to be born and bred in Iowa. Righting that error, he spent 20 years in England before deciding to repatriate. This was partly to let his wife and children experience life in Bryson's homeland - and partly because he had read that 3.7 million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another. It was thus clear to him that his people needed him. But before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire, Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain.
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A Perfect Picture
- By Ken Y on 2023-06-13
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Notes from a Small Island
- Narrated by: Bill Bryson
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 1999-12-15
- Language: English
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Bill Bryson is an unabashed Anglophile who, through a mistake of history, happened to be born and bred in Iowa. Righting that error, he spent 20 years in England before deciding to repatriate....
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The Island of Extraordinary Captives
- A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp
- Written by: Simon Parkin
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
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Following the events of Kristallnacht in 1938, Peter Fleischmann evaded the Gestapo’s roundups in Berlin by way of a perilous journey to England on a Kindertransport rescue, an effort sanctioned by the UK government to evacuate minors from Nazi-controlled areas.train. But he could not escape the British police, who came for him in the early hours and shipped him off to Hutchinson Camp on the Isle of Man, under suspicion of being a spy for the very regime he had fled.
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The Island of Extraordinary Captives
- A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 2022-11-01
- Language: English
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The “riveting…truly shocking” (The New York Times Book Review) story of a Jewish orphan who fled Nazi Germany for London, only to be arrested and sent to a British internment camp for suspected foreign agents on the Isle of Man, alongside a renowned group of refugee musicians....
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