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  Mysterious London: A History of Ancient Mysteries, Odd Individuals, and Unusual Legends Across the English Capital , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 72min

  The Anglo-Saxon charms...are of outstanding importance because they provide more than vague references of exceptional and short texts. They cannot be said to reveal everything, for there are numerous points in which they lamentably fail us, but they are numerous enough and, taken as a body, complete enough to give more than a tantalizing hint of a strange world. The veil of mystification enveloping magic appears to be thin and transparent here. [G. Storms, Anglo-Saxon Magic (1948)] London is one of the great cities of Europe, a center of commerce, art, and science for more almost 2,000 years. Visitors today are treated to world-class museums, pulsing nightlife, and fine dining. But one does not have to search far beyond this prosperous and modern facade to glimpse an older and more unusual London; in fact everywhere one looks, ancient traditions and old patterns emerge. Pagan figures peer down from pub walls, ghosts allegedly haunt major tourist sites, and strange customs continue in places of supposedly Christian worship. London was founded by the Romans shortly after an invasion led during the reign of Emperor Claudius in 43 CE. The site chosen was the north bank of the River Thames, close to a good ford. The Romans called the capital of their new province of Britannia Londinium, derived from Celtic word lond, meaning "wild", after the untouched states of the land. However, archaeology and folklore make clear that the land wasn't entirely uninhabited. Londinium was already a sacred site for the Celts, and several swords and pieces of armor have been dredged up from the Thames, thrown there as offerings by Druids. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Clem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/075226/bk_acx0_075226_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Time Tunnel at the Seaside: Time Tunnel, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 65min

  David Johnson is an ordinary 10-year-old schoolboy who has by pure chance twice stumbled across a time tunnel that takes him back to Roman Londinium. His adventures have led him to become a minor celebrity as well as helping him to do a lot better at school. However, now it is the summer holidays and he is off to North Devon with his mum, his uncle and aunt, and his cousin Sarah. He assumes that time travel is off the menu but circumstances force him and Sarah into yet another challenging trip into the past, which ultimately leads to a happy conclusion for all concerned. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Morton Tooley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/078425/bk_acx0_078425_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Queer City

  'Droll, provocative and crammed to busting with startling facts' Simon Callow, GuardianIn this powerful Sunday Times bestseller Peter Ackroyd looks at London in a whole new way - through the history and experiences of its gay population.In Roman Londinium the city was dotted with lupanaria ('wolf dens' or public pleasure houses), fornices (brothels) and thermiae (hot baths). Then came the Emperor Constantine, with his bishops, monks and missionaries. And so began an endless loop of alternating permissiveness and censure.Ackroyd takes us right into the hidden history of the city; from the notorious Normans to the frenzy of executions for sodomy in the early nineteenth century. He journeys through the coffee bars of sixties Soho to Gay Liberation, disco music and the horror of AIDS.Today, we live in an era of openness and tolerance and Queer London has become part of the new norm. Ackroyd tells us the hidden story of how it got there, celebrating its diversity, thrills and energy on the one hand; but reminding us of its very real terrors, dangers and risks on the other.

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  A Little Knowledge: The Split Worlds, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 845min

  Cathy and Will are now the Duchess and Duke of Londinium, the biggest Fae-touched Nether city, but they have different ideas of what their authority offers. Pressured by his Fae patron, Lord Iris, Will struggles to maintain total control whilst knowing he must have a child with his difficult wife. Cathy wants to muscle the Court through 200 years of social change and free it from its old-fashioned moral strictures. But Cathy learns just how dangerous it can be for a woman who dares to speak out. Meanwhile, as Sam learns more about the Elemental Court, it becomes clear that the Fae are not the only threat to humanity. Sam realizes that he has to make enemies of the most powerful people on the planet or risk becoming the antithesis of all he believes in. Threatened by secret societies, hidden power networks, and Fae machinations, can Sam and Cathy survive long enough to make the changes they want to see in the world? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emma Newman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/006962/bk_tant_006962_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Modern Scholar: Classical Mythology: The Romans , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 475min

  Rome grew from a tiny community of small hill villages near the River Tiber in central Italy to one of the most powerful empires the world has seen. The Romans themselves believed that their great city was founded in the middle of the eighth century BCE. By the middle of the second century CE, Rome had a population of 1.5 million; Alexandria, in Egypt, 500,000; and Londinium, in Briton, 30,000. Not counting locally recruited forces, this vast empire was subjugated and policed with only around 25 legions, or the equivalent of only three and a half times the entire police force of New York City. How was this possible? Military power, colonial organization, superior technology, a well-organized infrastructure, and a cohesive economic system. These elements of Roman genius are well known, but it was the very idea of Rome that proved so persuasive and this Roman ideal was born from mythology. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Professor Peter Meineck. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/003379/bk_reco_003379_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  A Brief History of Roman Britain: Brief Histories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 704min

  The rise and fall of Roman Britain, how they lived and what they left behind... In 55 B.C. Julius Caesar came, saw, conquered and then left. It was not until A.D. 43 that the Emperor Claudius crossed the channel and made Britain the western outpost of the Roman Empire that would span from the Scottish border to Persia. For the next 400 years the island would be transformed. Within that period would see the rise of Londinium, almost immediately burnt to the ground in A.D. 60 by Boudicca; Hadrian's Wall, which was constructed in A.D. 112 to keep the northern tribes at bay, as well as the birth of the Emperor Constantine in third century York. Interwoven with the historical narrative is a social history of the period showing how Roman society grew in Britain. Joan Alcock is a fellow of the University of South London. She is also the author of A Social History of Roman Britain, as well as A Social History of Ancient Rome. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lisa Coleman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/010325/bk_adbl_010325_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Lia Faileas , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 463min

  Queen Boudicca mourned for her tribe. Ancient Britton burned as Londinium was razed to sulfur and dirt. She escaped the battle with the Roman invaders in hot pursuit and two daughters by her side. Her copper hair caught the Celtic breeze. Ireland was her destination. Prasutagus, her king and husband was dead. Her flesh was raped via Roman conquest of her girls. Blood ran down her sword dripping with foreign DNA. Her lineage of Bryonny, Tempest, Aurelia, and Flannery would tell the tale of the two bracelets, a curse on Stonehenge cast by the Druids, love that would conquer, and a story with visions and historic remnants of her mark as royal blood. Historians would love her, hate her, and worship her existence. A courageous beauty with a cloak of many colors joined via Tia Tephi and ancestors in the line of King David. They journeyed with the Diaspora. These will all join into a force of the present, past, and future united within her ancestral heritage to dispel the ancient curse forever. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charlotte Cartlidge. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/105329/bk_acx0_105329_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Ripper Affair: Bannon and Clare , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 644min

  The enthralling conclusion to the Bannon and Clare trilogy from New York Times best-selling author, Lilith Saintcrow. Sorcery. Treason. Madness. And, of course, murder most foul... A shattering accident places Archibald Clare, mentath in the service of Britannia, in the care of Emma Bannon, sorceress Prime. Clare needs a measure of calm to repair his faculties of Logic and Reason. Without them, he is not his best. At all. Unfortunately, calm and rest will not be found. There is a killer hiding in the sorcerous steam-hells of Londinium, murdering poor women of a certain reputation. A handful of frails murdered on cold autumn nights would make no difference...but the killings echo in the highest circles, and threaten to bring the Empire down in smoking ruins. Once more Emma Bannon is pressed into service; once more Archibald Clare is determined to aid her. The secrets between these two old friends may give an ambitious sorcerer the means to bring down the Crown. And there is still no way to reliably find a hansom when one needs it most. The game is afoot... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Moira Quirk. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/001742/bk_hach_001742_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Hadrian's Wall: The History and Construction of Ancient Rome's Most Famous Defensive Fortification , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 75min

  [The Romans], thinking that it might be some help to the allies [Britons], whom they were forced to abandon, constructed a strong stone wall from sea to sea, in a straight line between the towns that had been there built for fear of the enemy, where Severus also had formerly built a rampart. (Bede's description of Hadrian's Wall in the Middle Ages) The Romans were master builders, and much of what they built has stood the test of time. Throughout their vast empire, they have left grand structures, from the Forum and Pantheon in Rome to the theatres and hippodromes of North Africa and the triumphal gates in Anatolia and France. Wherever they went, the Romans built imposing structures to show their power and ability, and one of their most impressive constructions was built on the northernmost fringe of the empire. In 55 BCE Julius Caesar was still dealing with Gaul, but that year he also led the first Romans into Britain, accusing tribes there of aiding the Gauls against him. With winter fast approaching, Caesar's forces did not make their way far into the mainland that year. But the following year Caesar's soldiers advanced into the island's interior and conquered a large swath of territory before a revolt in Gaul once again drew him back across the channel. The Romans eventually established enough of a presence to set up the outpost of Londinium, which ultimately morphed into one of the world's most famous cities today - London. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Phillip J. Mather. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/032584/bk_acx0_032584_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Absinthe Moon: Volume One in the Icarus Project , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 800min

  Welcome to New Londinium, a city that developed from an enclave of stragglers who survived the culminating blast of the last world war. From beneath the lee of a mountain formed as a result of the devastation, a colony gathered and grew. After several hundred years, this post-apocalyptic city is filled to bursting, and everyone - well, nearly everyone - is struggling for a place amidst the city’s Chosen, the elite ruling faction. Robert Mayhew, by all appearances, is a man destined to be numbered amongst these Chosen. But Mayhew is both more than and less than he appears. His unauthorized conception, and a hideous deformity that was the result of his failed termination, have left him with a bloodthirsty lust to exact vengeance on the system that conspired to kill him even before he’d drawn his first breath. In his position as chief curator of the Absinthe Moon - the city’s center of love and leisure - and supported by the Resistance, Mayhew is in just the right position to infiltrate the Icarus Project - the executive body of the city's shadow government - and bring the whole system toppling down. So long as no one gets in his way. Enter Emaline Newell. Utterly devoid of any evidence of the city’s taint, she is a valuable asset to the Absinthe Moon, and to Mayhew in his aims to achieve elite status. As his consort, she might give him just the advantage he needs. Only Emaline has some ideas of her own, and perhaps a few things to teach him about love, loyalty, and the power he wishes to wield. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joshua Saxon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/168460/bk_acx0_168460_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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