British Culture

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    • The Strange History of Our National Imagination
    • By: Dominic Sandbrook
    • Narrated by: David Thorpe
    • Length: 23 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-16
    • Language: English
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    • Britain's empire has gone. Our manufacturing base is a shadow of its former self; the Royal Navy has been reduced to a skeleton....

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    • Black British Culture Explored
    • By: Jeffrey Boakye
    • Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 18-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 116 ratings
    • Who is a roadman really? What's wrong with calling someone a 'lighty'? Why do people think black guys are cool? These are just some of the questions being wrestled with in Black, Listed, an exploration of 21st-century black Identity....

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    • By: Matthew Arnold
    • Narrated by: Michael Maloney
    • Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 13-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Culture and Anarchy is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book in 1869....

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    • By: Atinuke
    • Narrated by: Pearl Mackie
    • Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
    • Release date: 31-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Award-winning author Atinuke brings her experience as an oral storyteller to present an eye-opening story of the history of Britain, focusing on a part of our past that has mostly been left out of the history books: Black British history....

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    • A Musical History of Modern Black Britain in 28 Songs
    • By: Jeffrey Boakye, Ngadi Smart - illustrator
    • Narrated by: Jeffrey Boakye
    • Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Lord Kitchener, Neneh Cherry, Smiley Culture, Stormzy.... Groundbreaking musicians whose songs have changed the world. This exhilarating playlist tracks some of the key shifts in modern British history and explores the emotional impact of 28 songs and the artists who performed them....

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    • A Story of the Boston Massacre
    • By: Ann Rinaldi
    • Narrated by: Melissa Hughes
    • Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 28-04-04
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Fourteen-year-old Rachel Marsh is nanny to John and Abigail Adams' children and witnesses firsthand how tension builds in the feisty New England town....

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    • A Short Essential History
    • By: David Olusoga
    • Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
    • Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • A short, essential introduction to Black British history....

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    • By: Mary Berry
    • Narrated by: Patricia Hodge
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 212 ratings
    • The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Mary Berry's autobiography, Recipe for Life, read by the actress Patricia Hodge....

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    • Why Love of Country Can End Our Very British Culture War
    • By: Sunder Katwala
    • Narrated by: Sunder Katwala
    • Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 15-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Sunder Katwala grew up with some identity questions to work through. As a half-Indian, Irish Catholic kid, the chequered history of post-imperial Britain seemed very personal. Yet he came to realise that, with that background, he could hardly be anything but proudly British....

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    • How Black British Leaders Succeed in Organisations and Why It Matters
    • By: Barbara Banda
    • Narrated by: Patricia Grant
    • Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-24
    • Language: English
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    • This book is for anyone who wants to understand what being more inclusive at work means, especially as it relates to black leaders.

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    • An Uncompromising Deep Dive into the History of Bands That Shaped Our Lives and Culture
    • By: PJ Chambers
    • Narrated by: Steve King
    • Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 23-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A top-10 list is nobody’s perfect tool, especially when trying to measure up 10 of the most significant and influential bands of the British Invasion. Nevertheless, this book presents 10 biographies of classic bands of the era widely regarded as the best of the best....

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    • How a Generation of Brits Reinvented Pop Culture
    • By: Karl Stock
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 21-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Karl Stock reveals the true story of the wild times, passion, and determination that helped, hindered, and saw the reinvention of comics....

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    • Lizzie and Belle, Book 2
    • By: J.T. Williams
    • Narrated by: Amanda Bright
    • Series: Lizzie and Belle Mysteries, Book 2
    • Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 30-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Twelve-year-olds Lizzie Sancho and Dido Belle are from different worlds – Lizzie lives in Westminster in her dad’s tea shop, while Belle is an heiress being brought up by her aunt and uncle at grand Kenwood House – but they both share a love of solving mysteries....

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    • The Birth of the British Drug Underground
    • By: Marek Kohn
    • Narrated by: Jaimi Barbakoff
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 21-11-24
    • Language: English
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    • This is a discussion of the transformation of drug use (especially morphine and cocaine, which was once commonly available in any chemist's shop) into a national menace.

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    • By: Karen Hesse
    • Narrated by: David Cole
    • Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-05-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In 1767, 11-year-old Nicholas Young stowed away on Captain James Cook's "Endeavour".....

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