Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Richard III (Makers of History series)
    Richard III (Makers of History series)
    Richard III (Makers of History series)
    Audiobook5 hours

    Richard III (Makers of History series)

    Written by Jacob Abbott

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

    5/5

    ()

    About this audiobook

    Jacob Abbott chronicles the unspeakably treacherous rise of Richard III to the throne of England in the midst of the war between the Yorks and the Lancasters and his ultimate fall on the Field of Bosworth. (Introduction by Cathy Barratt)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    Richard III (Makers of History series)
    Author

    Jacob Abbott

    Jacob Abbott (1803-1879) was an American author, pastor, and professor. Born Jacob Abbot Ⅲ, he later added a “t” to the end of his name in order to break away from being “the third”. Abbott began his career as a professor of mathematics and philosophy at Amherst college in Massachusetts. He became a licensed preacher in 1826, and later went on to become the founder and pastor of the Eliot Congregational Church. Jacob Abbott wrote many works, including biographies, religious books, and juvenile fiction. By the end of his career, he co-wrote thirty-one titles, and authored one-hundred and eighty books on his own.

    Related to Richard III (Makers of History series)

    Related audiobooks

    Biography & Memoir For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      There’s Something About Matilda...

      Feb 18, 2021

      Matilda of Flanders was consort to one of England’s most famous kings, William the Conqueror. However, Matilda did not start her life in the public eye. The daughter of Baldwin V of Flanders and Adela of France, Matilda originally held the title of D

      7 min read

    • Article

      Welcome November 2021

      Sep 30, 2021

      Welcome November 2021
      1 min read

    • Article

      Nemesis Of The Normans

      Oct 28, 2021

      Nemesis Of The Normans
      8 min read

    • Article

      TV & RADIO

      Aug 25, 2020

      TV & RADIO
      3 min read

    • Article

      A Clash That Shaped Britain

      Aug 3, 2023

      Robert the Bruce gives the Anglo-Scottish nobility an ultimatum: to support his kingship or be disinherited. Bruce captures the English stronghold of Berwick-on-Tweed. Bruce launches major raids into the north of England as far as Pontefract in Yorks

      1 min read

    • Article

      Reading Corner

      Dec 4, 2020

      Faithful Witness edited by Robert Beaken (£30, SPCK Publishing). The diaries of the king's chaplain provide a ringside view of Edward VIII's abdication, George VI's coronation and more. Lady Charlotte Guest: The Exceptional Life of a Female Industr

      1 min read

    • Article

      The War That Rose From The Dead

      Apr 15, 2021

      The War That Rose From The Dead
      2 min read

    • Article

      Timeline Of... Wars Of The Roses

      Mar 19, 2018

      “THE RESULTING CLASH AT TOWTON IS PROBABLY THE LARGEST AND BLOODIEST BATTLE FOUGHT ON BRITISH SOIL” The wars officially begin when a force led by Richard, Duke of York is intercepted at St Albans by a Lancastrian army including Henry VI and Edmund, D

      2 min read

    • Article

      War Of The Roses

      Jun 11, 2021

      War Of The Roses
      1 min read

    • Article

      Key Events

      Jul 13, 2023

      Key Events
      2 min read

    • Article

      The House Of Stuart

      Aug 20, 2021

      While in England the Stuart dynasty did not begin until the Union of the Crowns in 1603, the family ruled the Scots from 1371, which makes 2021 the 650th anniversary of Robert II’s founding of the supreme House of Stuart. The son of Marjorie, the eld

      12 min read

    • Article

      Burning Horizon

      Mar 16, 2023

      Burning Horizon
      1 min read

    • Article

      More From Us

      Jan 23, 2020

      More From Us
      1 min read

    • Article

      Timeline Of... Wars Of The Roses

      Nov 29, 2018

      “THE RESULTING CLASH AT TOWTON IS PROBABLY THE LARGEST AND BLOODIEST BATTLE FOUGHT ON BRITISH SOIL” The wars officially begin when a force led by Richard, Duke of York is intercepted at St Albans by a Lancastrian army including Henry VI and Edmund, D

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Ultimate Guide To England’s Game Of Thrones

      Mar 27, 2020

      The son of warrior king Henry V and Catherine de Valois, Henry VI was crowned king of both England and France during infancy. He would proceed to oversee England’s final losses in the Hundred Years’ War and famously married the strong and powerful Ma

      5 min read

    • Article

      Also in November 1760

      Oct 1, 2020

      3rd Frederick II’s Prussian forces defeat the Austrian army commanded by Count Leopold Joseph von Daun at the Battle of Torgau in Saxony. For both sides, the battle proves one of the costliest of the Seven Years’ War, with 16,670 Prussian and 15,897

      1 min read

    • Article

      The Battle Of Maldon

      Jan 21, 2021

      The Battle Of Maldon
      1 min read

    • Article

      Barons’ Wars

      Jan 23, 2020

      Barons’ Wars
      2 min read

    • Article

      The Highl And War, Part 1

      Dec 10, 2022

      The Highl And War, Part 1
      13 min read

    • Article

      The Wars That Divided A Nation

      Sep 30, 2021

      The nine-month-old Henry VI ascends the throne after the death of his father, Henry V. A regency council will rule England until he comes of age, in 1437. A rebellion against the king’s government, widely seen as corrupt, is suppressed, but Richard,

      3 min read

    • Article

      Welcome May 2023

      Apr 13, 2023

      Welcome May 2023
      1 min read

    • Article

      Anatomy Of A Downfall

      Sep 3, 2020

      Richard III: A Failed King? by Rosemary Horrox Allen Lane, 128 pages, £14.99 This latest biography of Richard III opens with a startling rollcall of Ricardian failures: the shortest reign of a crowned king since the Norman conquest; the first and las

      1 min read

    • Article

      War In Focus

      Dec 22, 2022

      War In Focus
      1 min read

    • Article

      Was King George III Slandered By Historians? A Biographer Thinks So.

      Feb 8, 2022

      Can the reputation of Britain’s King George III be rehabilitated after centuries of vilification? In “The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III,” author Andrew Roberts calls him “the most unfairly traduced sovereign in the long

      2 min read

    • Article

      Welcome Christmas 2020

      Nov 26, 2020

      Welcome Christmas 2020
      1 min read

    • Article

      Tewkesbury

      Oct 1, 2020

      Tewkesbury
      8 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Richard III (Makers of History series)

    5/5

    1 rating0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words