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 Dec 19, 2024

RuthyK
 Jul 30, 2024
Expert discussions with historians about their areas of research and interest. Always engaging and brimful of new information you never knew about.


 Apr 14, 2024

Simon Nuttall
 Apr 4, 2024
I've listened to this for years, never disappoints. if you like history, highly recomended


 Mar 31, 2024

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The History Extra podcast brings you gripping stories from the past and fascinating historical conversations with the world's leading historical experts. Produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine, History Extra is a free history podcast, with episodes released six times a week. Subscribe now for the real stories behind your favourite films, TV shows and period dramas, as well as compelling insights into lesser-known aspects of the past.    We delve into global history stories spanning the ancient world right up to the modern day. You’ll hear deep dives into the lives of famous historical figures like Cleopatra, Anne Boleyn and Winston Churchill, and explorations of intriguing events from the past, such as the Salem witch trials, the battle of Waterloo and D-Day.    Expect fresh takes on history, helping you get to grips with the latest research, as we explore everything from ancient Roman archaeology and Viking mythology to Renaissance royals and Tudor kings and queens.    Our episodes touch on a wide range of historical eras – from the Normans and Saxons to the Stuarts, Victorians and the Regency period. We cover the most popular historical subjects, from the medieval world to the Second World War, but you’ll also hear conversations on lesser-known parts of our past, including black history and women’s history.    Looking at the history behind today’s headlines, we consider the forces that have shaped today’s world, from the imposing empires that dominated continents, to the revolutions that brought them crashing down. We also examine the impact of conflict across the centuries, from the crusades of the Middle Ages and the battles of the ancient Egyptians to World War One, World War Two and the Cold War.     Plus, we uncover the real history behind myths, legends and conspiracy theories, from the medieval murder mystery of the Princes in the Tower, to the assassination of JFK.     Featuring interviews with notable historians including Mary Beard, Tracy Borman, James Holland and Dan Jones, we cover a range of social, political and military history, with the aim to start conversations about some of the most fascinating areas of the past.  Unlock full access to HistoryExtra.com for 6 months for just 99p https://www.historyextra.com/join/

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Are we celebrating the wrong Magna Carta?
Feb 11, 2025
The forgotten JFK assassination plot
Feb 10, 2025
The Indian Rebellion of 1857: everything you wanted to know
Feb 09, 2025
From dinosaurs to Godzilla: a 15,000-year history of monsters
Feb 07, 2025
How monasteries powered medieval Europe
Feb 05, 2025
Greenland, forest fires and presidential power: history behind the headlines
Feb 04, 2025
George Villiers: from royal favourite to enemy number one
Feb 03, 2025
Extinct animals: everything you wanted to know
Feb 02, 2025
Agony and ecstasy: the lives of mystics
Jan 31, 2025
How medicine became a moneymaker
Jan 30, 2025
Carolingians in crisis: the medieval civil war that shaped Europe
Jan 29, 2025
Charles Dickens: life of the week
Jan 28, 2025
Murder in WW2 London
Jan 27, 2025
British TV history: everything you wanted to know
Jan 26, 2025
The big questions of the Holocaust
Jan 25, 2025
Happiness: history of an emotion
Jan 24, 2025
The 1453 fall of Constantinople: capturing the Byzantine capital
Jan 23, 2025
Inside the mind of the Third Reich
Jan 22, 2025
Sacagawea: life of the week
Jan 21, 2025
Women's bodies: an unreliable history
Jan 20, 2025
Ancient Mesopotamia: everything you wanted to know
Jan 19, 2025
Who moulded Winston Churchill?
Jan 18, 2025
Elizabethan London: a multicultural melting pot
Jan 17, 2025
Strange stories of medieval saints
Jan 16, 2025
What is the greatest historical movie of all time?
Jan 15, 2025
Nell Gwyn: life of the week
Jan 14, 2025
How pigs caused a stink in medieval England
Jan 13, 2025
The Hanseatic League: everything you wanted to know
Jan 12, 2025
Secret forceps & pig bladders: medical objects through time
Jan 10, 2025
How Roman roads transformed Europe
Jan 09, 2025
Hotel Lux: the guesthouse of world revolution
Jan 08, 2025
Introducing History's Greatest Scandals | New Podcast
Jan 07, 2025
Susan B Anthony: life of the week
Jan 07, 2025
How the compass became a political weapon
Jan 06, 2025
Medieval towns: everything you wanted to know
Jan 05, 2025
Harold Wilson: the rock 'n' roll prime minister
Jan 03, 2025
Who is buried at Sutton Hoo?
Jan 02, 2025
Sex and Christianity: 2,000 years of love and fury
Jan 01, 2025
Catherine the Great: life of the week
Dec 31, 2024
The Second Norman Conquest
Dec 30, 2024
The Carolingians: everything you wanted to know
Dec 29, 2024
The SAS in WW2: everything you wanted to know
Dec 28, 2024
Arnhem: 24 hours that shattered Allied dreams
Dec 27, 2024
Tudor England | 5. The wider world
Dec 26, 2024
2024 in review: history behind the headlines
Dec 24, 2024
Shipwrecks: a porthole to the past
Dec 23, 2024
Quaker history: everything you wanted to know
Dec 22, 2024
Christmas history: everything you wanted to know
Dec 21, 2024
How convict labour forged empires
Dec 20, 2024
Tudor England | 4. Religion and superstition
Dec 19, 2024
Secrets of medieval churches
Dec 18, 2024
Isabella of Castile: life of the week
Dec 17, 2024
The massacre that shattered the old Ottoman world
Dec 16, 2024
Underwear history: everything you wanted to know
Dec 15, 2024
Medieval relic hunters: the quest for Notre-Dame's crown of thorns
Dec 13, 2024
Tudor England | 3. Culture and innovation
Dec 12, 2024
Tempting treats & festive feats: christmas shopping down the ages
Dec 11, 2024
Robert the Bruce: life of the week
Dec 10, 2024
Germany's postwar reinvention
Dec 09, 2024
Robot history: everything you wanted to know
Dec 08, 2024
Britain's wild republican decade
Dec 06, 2024
Tudor England | 2. Daily life
Dec 05, 2024
Kublai Khan: ruler of the waves
Dec 04, 2024
Princes in the Tower: could this new discovery solve the mystery?
Dec 03, 2024
The murders at Rillington Place: postwar London's grisliest crimes
Dec 02, 2024
Tudor explorers: everything you wanted to know
Dec 01, 2024
Nelson & Winnie: inside the Mandelas' marriage
Nov 29, 2024
Tudor England | 1. Power and politics
Nov 28, 2024
Tudor England: the big questions | Trailer
Nov 27, 2024
A Victorian cult: inside the strange world of the Agapemone
Nov 27, 2024
History behind the headlines: Trump's win – parallels with the past
Nov 26, 2024
Sport's strangest tales
Nov 25, 2024
Ancient Egyptian warfare: everything you wanted to know
Nov 24, 2024
The bloody road to Rome: liberating Italy from the Nazis in WWII
Nov 22, 2024
The invisible tracks that have shaped the world
Nov 21, 2024
Should we stop talking about the crusades?
Nov 20, 2024
Æthelred the Unready: life of the week
Nov 19, 2024
The golden age of the country house
Nov 18, 2024
Victorian schools: everything you wanted to know
Nov 17, 2024
Gladiators: everything you wanted to know
Nov 16, 2024
Nelson: a life of heroism and scandal
Nov 15, 2024
Medieval make do and mend
Nov 14, 2024
Thomas Cromwell: the triumph and tragedy of Henry VIII's right-hand man
Nov 13, 2024
Joseph McCarthy: life of the week
Nov 12, 2024
Gladiator tales
Nov 11, 2024
The Brontës: everything you wanted to know
Nov 10, 2024
Lord Lucan: the vanishing earl
Nov 08, 2024
The Tyrant, the usurper and the hero | Henry V: hero
Nov 07, 2024
How Stalin won WW2
Nov 06, 2024
The Venerable Bede: life of the week
Nov 05, 2024
Decoding Mary, Queen of Scots
Nov 04, 2024
The Blitz: everything you wanted to know
Nov 03, 2024
The gunpowder plot: everything you wanted to know
Nov 02, 2024
Telling the story of modern Jerusalem
Nov 01, 2024
The Tyrant, the usurper and the hero | Henry IV: usurper
Oct 31, 2024
Satan & the sabbath: witchhunting in the Basque Country
Oct 30, 2024
Florence Nightingale: life of the week
Oct 29, 2024
Introducing History's Greatest Conspiracy Theories
Oct 28, 2024
Cocaine: a Victorian sensation
Oct 28, 2024
Medieval science: everything you wanted to know
Oct 26, 2024
Halloween traditions: everything you wanted to know
Oct 25, 2024
Medieval women: friendship, wanderlust and the medieval hustle
Oct 24, 2024
The Tyrant, the usurper and the hero | Richard II: tyrant
Oct 23, 2024
Chris Packham & Peter Frankopan: can history help tackle the climate crisis?
Oct 22, 2024
History Behind the Headlines: political memoirs, fuel and access to nature
Oct 21, 2024
Tudor spymaster: the secret machinations of Robert Cecil
Oct 20, 2024
The Korean War: everything you wanted to know
Oct 19, 2024
Roman slavery: a brutal life in the ancient empire
Oct 17, 2024
1066: the battle for England | 4. the long and violent Norman Conquest
Oct 16, 2024
Imperial spectacle: inside Britain's 1924 'Empire Exhibition'
Oct 15, 2024
John Milton: life of the week
Oct 14, 2024
Why did people kill for Hitler?
Oct 13, 2024
The Cathars: everything you wanted to know
Oct 12, 2024
Black British History: everything you wanted to know
Oct 11, 2024
Shopping and snacking: a social history of the high street
Oct 10, 2024
1066: the battle for England | 3. Three kings and three battles
Oct 09, 2024
The race to identify all living creatures
Oct 08, 2024
King John: life of the week
Oct 07, 2024
Ordinary Vikings: hidden histories of the Nordic world
Oct 06, 2024
Tea history: everything you wanted to know
Oct 05, 2024
Victorian women detectives
Oct 03, 2024
1066: the battle for England | 2. The power behind the Anglo-Saxon throne
Oct 02, 2024
A hidden history of black civil rights
Oct 01, 2024
Eleanor Roosevelt: life of the week
Sep 30, 2024
How did the US get so many guns?
Sep 29, 2024
Communism: everything you wanted to know
Sep 28, 2024
Liberating WW2 Naples: triumph and tragedy
Sep 26, 2024
1066: the battle for England | 1. Vikings, Normans and rebellious Anglo-Saxons
Sep 25, 2024
Churchill's prewar crisis meetings
Sep 24, 2024
Henry VII: life of the week
Sep 23, 2024
Tokyo 1946: the war crime trial that shaped Japan's future
Sep 22, 2024
The Stuarts: everything you wanted to know
Sep 21, 2024
Hidden environmental histories of the last 500 years
Sep 19, 2024
Ancient Egypt | 5. a lost world?
Sep 18, 2024
Congo, Cold War & CIA plotting: the 1961 assassination that shook Africa
Sep 17, 2024
Viking trade, Titanic and Olympic rings: history behind the headlines
Sep 16, 2024
How ancient India transformed the world
Sep 15, 2024
The Hittites: everything you wanted to know
Sep 14, 2024
The Iranian embassy siege: an SAS hostage drama in London
Sep 12, 2024
Ancient Egypt | 4. religion and death
Sep 11, 2024
Native Americans: a history of power and survival
Sep 10, 2024
Isambard Kingdom Brunel: life of the week
Sep 09, 2024
The 1943 battle of Kursk – and its present-day echoes
Sep 08, 2024
Medieval torture: everything you wanted to know
Sep 07, 2024
Medieval documents in danger
Sep 05, 2024
Ancient Egypt | 3. culture
Sep 04, 2024
Our 10,000-year quest for equality
Sep 03, 2024
Michelangelo: life of the week
Sep 02, 2024
The Battle of Megiddo: ancient Egypt's greatest victory?
Sep 01, 2024
Prehistoric stone circles: everything you want to know
Aug 31, 2024
The plague that brought the Roman empire to its knees
Aug 29, 2024
Ancient Egypt | 2. everyday life
Aug 28, 2024
False rumps & rotten teeth: 400 years of bizarre beauty practices
Aug 27, 2024
Emperor Vespasian: life of the week
Aug 26, 2024
An audacious escape from slavery
Aug 25, 2024
The Abbasid caliphate: everything you wanted to know
Aug 24, 2024
Crusader criminals: how the Holy Land became a hotbed of lawlessness
Aug 22, 2024
Ancient Egypt | 1. civilisation
Aug 21, 2024
Ancient Egypt: the big questions | Trailer
Aug 21, 2024
Gulag doctors: saving lives in Stalin's prison camps
Aug 20, 2024
The far right in Britain: history behind the headlines
Aug 19, 2024
Practical magic: curses, spells & cunning folk
Aug 18, 2024
The history of migration: everything you wanted to know
Aug 17, 2024
Eighteen-year-olds who changed history
Aug 15, 2024
Toilets through time | 4. Victorian lavatories
Aug 14, 2024
How games changed history
Aug 13, 2024
George Orwell: life of the week
Aug 12, 2024
Lines on a map: borders that shaped world history
Aug 11, 2024
Tartan: everything you wanted to know
Aug 10, 2024
Olympic History: everything you wanted to know
Aug 09, 2024
Hidden labs, sex gardens & torture attics: secrets of British royal palaces
Aug 08, 2024
Toilets through time | 3. Tudor garderobes
Aug 07, 2024
Gulbadan Begum: princess, explorer, author
Aug 06, 2024
Anne Frank: life of the week
Aug 05, 2024
Stealing the Mona Lisa
Aug 04, 2024
The Great Exhibition: everything you wanted to know
Aug 03, 2024
Dismemberment & disgrace: the grisly fate of Simon de Montfort
Aug 01, 2024
Toilets through time | 2. Medieval privies
Jul 31, 2024
Has imperial history become too politicised?
Jul 30, 2024
Francis Drake: life of the week
Jul 29, 2024
Our long obsession with the end of the world
Jul 28, 2024
The Grand Tour: everything you wanted to know
Jul 27, 2024
Black Death: everything you wanted to know
Jul 26, 2024
The Decameron: sex, plague, and a medieval Love Island
Jul 25, 2024
Toilets through time | 1. Roman latrines
Jul 24, 2024
Assassinations that shaped US history
Jul 23, 2024
Is democracy doomed? History behind the headlines
Jul 22, 2024
Catherine of Braganza: the Merrie Monarch's forgotten queen
Jul 21, 2024
The Spanish Inquisition: everything you wanted to know
Jul 20, 2024
1217: the year that (almost) changed English history
Jul 18, 2024
Deeds not words | 6. Mission accomplished?
Jul 17, 2024
Kindness & hostility: refugees in wartime Britain
Jul 16, 2024
Catherine de' Medici: life of the week
Jul 15, 2024
The suffragettes who fell in love
Jul 14, 2024
Servants: everything you wanted to know
Jul 13, 2024
Anxieties of the Edwardian age
Jul 11, 2024
Deeds not words | 5. Burning down the house
Jul 10, 2024
How the Plantagenets forged the English state
Jul 09, 2024
Justinian: life of the week
Jul 08, 2024
The woman who saved the children
Jul 07, 2024
Victorian crime and punishment: everything you wanted to know
Jul 06, 2024
How the Dreyfus Affair tore France apart
Jul 04, 2024
Deeds not words | 4. Cat and mouse
Jul 03, 2024
The surprising lives of ancient women
Jul 02, 2024
Boudica: life of the week
Jul 01, 2024
How Stalin ran rings round the west
Jun 30, 2024
British general elections: everything you wanted to know
Jun 29, 2024
Medieval keep fit
Jun 27, 2024
Deeds not words | 3. Making a statement
Jun 26, 2024
A 21st-century Holocaust trial
Jun 25, 2024
Catherine Parr: life of the week
Jun 24, 2024
Invisible ink & toad poison: tools of Elizabethan spycraft
Jun 23, 2024
Chocolate history: everything you wanted to know
Jun 22, 2024
Work-life balance: how our ancestors fought for free time
Jun 20, 2024
Deeds not words | 2. Pankhurst family portrait
Jun 19, 2024
Anne Boleyn: a modern woman?
Jun 18, 2024
Historical apologies & female leaders: History behind the headlines
Jun 17, 2024
Has WW2 become a national religion?
Jun 16, 2024
Beowulf: everything you wanted to know
Jun 15, 2024
Inside Bridgerton's ballrooms
Jun 13, 2024
Deeds not words | 1. Battlelines are drawn
Jun 12, 2024
Deeds not words | Trailer
Jun 12, 2024
War, peace & cherry trees: finding hope after WW2
Jun 11, 2024
Dwight D Eisenhower: life of the week
Jun 10, 2024
Forging first editions: a 1930s crime caper
Jun 09, 2024
The pilgrim fathers: everything you wanted to know
Jun 08, 2024
Beastly Victorians: preventing animal cruelty in the 19th century
Jun 06, 2024
D-Day: was Churchill really against the operation?
Jun 05, 2024
D-Day: Land
Jun 05, 2024
A 17th-century scandal & a writer's secret life
Jun 04, 2024
Plato: life of the week
Jun 03, 2024
Breastfeeding in the Middle Ages
Jun 02, 2024
Death and mourning in Britain: everything you wanted to know
Jun 01, 2024
Julian: the Roman emperor who (almost) changed the world
May 30, 2024
D-Day: Sea
May 29, 2024
A Soviet road trip through 1930s America
May 28, 2024
Galileo: life of the week
May 27, 2024
What was life like as a peasant?
May 26, 2024
The history of museums: everything you wanted to know
May 25, 2024
Forgotten women writers of the Renaissance
May 23, 2024
D-Day: Air
May 22, 2024
Cat crazy: the Victorian mania for moggies
May 21, 2024
Maria Theresa: life of the week
May 20, 2024
Agent Zo: spying against the Nazis
May 19, 2024
The Terror: everything you wanted to know
May 18, 2024
The real Lady Whistledown & the golden age of gossip
May 16, 2024
WW2's greatest battles | 5. Guadalcanal
May 15, 2024
A surprising history of sex between men
May 14, 2024
History Behind the Headlines: student protests down the centuries
May 13, 2024
Tudor ladies-in-waiting: the women who served Henry VIII's queens
May 12, 2024
Ancient Greek theatre: everything you wanted to know
May 11, 2024
The Tattooist of Auschwitz: is it ok to fictionalise the Holocaust?
May 09, 2024
WW2's greatest battles | 4. El Alamein
May 08, 2024
Shardlake: bringing the Tudor murder mystery to the screen
May 07, 2024
Kublai Khan: life of the week
May 06, 2024
Inside a Jim Crow asylum
May 05, 2024
The Spartans: Everything You Wanted to Know
May 04, 2024
Death by nostalgia: the curious history of a dangerous emotion
May 02, 2024
WW2's greatest battles | 3. Battle of the Atlantic
May 01, 2024
Smash hits: 17th-century style
Apr 30, 2024
Benjamin Franklin: life of the week
Apr 29, 2024
OJ Simpson: the trial that gripped the world
Apr 28, 2024
Greg Jenner and Campbell Price delve into the curious and fascinating world of ancient Egyptian mummification
Apr 27, 2024
The Magus: enlightened magician or Renaissance charlatan?
Apr 25, 2024
WW2's greatest battles | 2. Stalingrad
Apr 24, 2024
Aztec myths
Apr 23, 2024
David Lloyd George: life of the week
Apr 22, 2024
Graffiti's golden age: radicalism & romance in the 18th century
Apr 21, 2024
Highwaymen: everything you wanted to know
Apr 20, 2024
An African perspective on the history of Africa
Apr 18, 2024
WW2's greatest battles | 1. Battle of Britain
Apr 17, 2024
WW2's greatest battles | Trailer
Apr 17, 2024
How Kissinger transformed the Cold War
Apr 16, 2024
Lord Byron: life of the week
Apr 15, 2024
Horrible Histories: 15 years of death, poo and talking rats
Apr 14, 2024
Medieval medicine: everything you wanted to know
Apr 13, 2024
Death & hubris in west Africa: how two British expeditions met with disaster
Apr 11, 2024
Conspiracy Revisited: The JFK assassination – Oswald’s second murder
Apr 10, 2024
Clotilda: the last slave ship to America
Apr 09, 2024
History behind the headlines: the Bengal famine
Apr 08, 2024
Spying in the Troubles: the murky world of double agents in Northern Ireland
Apr 07, 2024
Welsh mythology: everything you wanted to know
Apr 06, 2024
Tying the knot: 500 years of wedded bliss and marital misery
Apr 04, 2024
Conspiracy Revisited: The JFK assassination – 95 per cent certain?
Apr 03, 2024
The British empire's divisive legacy
Apr 02, 2024
Saladin: life of the week
Apr 01, 2024
Back in the USSR: the Soviet Sixties
Mar 31, 2024
Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: everything you wanted to know
Mar 31, 2024
Dinosaurs: a Victorian obsession
Mar 29, 2024
Tiger Tamer | 6. battling against Bovril
Mar 28, 2024
How was Elizabeth I shaped by her childhood?
Mar 27, 2024
Joan of Arc: life of the week
Mar 26, 2024
Leftovers: how our ancestors battled food waste
Mar 25, 2024
WW1's eastern front: everything you wanted to know
Mar 24, 2024
Eric 'Winkle' Brown: Britain's most extraordinary pilot
Mar 22, 2024
Tiger Tamer | 5. crazy about wheelbarrows
Mar 21, 2024
Will the real Jesus please stand up?
Mar 20, 2024
Mary Wollstonecraft: life of the week
Mar 19, 2024
An obscenity trial that shocked Victorian Britain
Mar 18, 2024
The Capetians: everything you wanted to know
Mar 17, 2024
Lothar II vs Theutberga: a marriage scandal that shook the ninth century
Mar 15, 2024
Tiger Tamer | 4. celebrity pedestrian
Mar 14, 2024
A political earthquake: Britain's first Labour government
Mar 13, 2024
James VI and I: life of the week
Mar 12, 2024
From Russia to Texas: the search for a Jewish homeland
Mar 11, 2024
British Redcoats: everything you wanted to know
Mar 10, 2024
The West's attempt to crush Bolshevik Russia
Mar 08, 2024
Tiger Tamer | 3. would you let a tiger lick your face?
Mar 07, 2024
Mary & George: the real history behind the new drama
Mar 06, 2024
History Behind the Headlines: ageing politicians & new names for the London Overground
Mar 05, 2024
The man who ran Auschwitz: the real story of The Zone of Interest
Mar 04, 2024
Alcatraz: everything you wanted to know
Mar 03, 2024
Plague, leprosy & murder: unlocking the secrets of medieval bones
Mar 01, 2024
Tiger Tamer | 2. sail, steam & stormy seas
Feb 29, 2024
The EU: from Maastricht to Brexit
Feb 28, 2024
Rudyard Kipling: life of the week
Feb 27, 2024
Winthrop Bell: a Canadian spy who predicted Nazi horrors
Feb 26, 2024
Arts & Crafts movement: everything you wanted to know
Feb 25, 2024
Stonewall: the 1969 fight for gay rights
Feb 24, 2024
The Chinese migrants chasing an American dream
Feb 23, 2024
The Tiger Tamer who went to sea | Trailer
Feb 22, 2024
Tiger Tamer | 1. “the life of a dozen men”
Feb 22, 2024
The Britons who rebuilt postwar Germany
Feb 21, 2024
Christopher Columbus: life of the week
Feb 20, 2024
Slavic Myths: vampires werewolves – and cabbages
Feb 19, 2024
The Roman army: everything you wanted to know
Feb 18, 2024
Chanel: glamour and controversy on the Riviera
Feb 17, 2024
Victorian death rituals
Feb 16, 2024
Conspiracy | 5. Legends of the Knights Templar
Feb 15, 2024
Happily ever after? Love and marriage in Austen's era
Feb 14, 2024
History Behind the Headlines: the Post Office, US elections and Alexander the Great
Feb 13, 2024
Drag: a British history
Feb 12, 2024
Medieval Ireland: everything you wanted to know
Feb 11, 2024
Peking to Paris: the world’s first great motor race
Feb 09, 2024
Conspiracy | 4. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Feb 08, 2024
Love: a weird & wonderful history
Feb 07, 2024
Life of the week: the Duke of Wellington
Feb 06, 2024
Ploughman's for the people: a culinary history of Britain
Feb 05, 2024
Chivalry: everything you wanted to know
Feb 04, 2024
Alexandria: the first modern city
Feb 02, 2024
Conspiracy | 3. Who killed JFK?
Feb 01, 2024
Masters of the Air: the real history behind the new show.
Jan 31, 2024
Life of the week: Spartacus
Jan 30, 2024
The West's enduring fascination with Asia
Jan 29, 2024
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: everything you wanted to know
Jan 28, 2024
Nicholas Winton: the 'British Schindler'
Jan 26, 2024
Conspiracy | 2. Was Pearl Harbor an inside job?
Jan 25, 2024
Ireland's tangled relationship with empire
Jan 24, 2024
Life of the Week: Harold Godwinson (Harold II)
Jan 23, 2024
Britain's long love affair with sport
Jan 22, 2024
The Silk Road: everything you wanted to know
Jan 21, 2024
The Renaissance: an explosion of creativity
Jan 19, 2024
Conspiracy | 1. Was Elizabeth I a man?
Jan 18, 2024
Conspiracy | Series 2 Trailer
Jan 18, 2024
From the Mongols to the Huns: the nomads who dominated Eurasia
Jan 17, 2024
Life of the Week: Frederick Douglass
Jan 16, 2024
The hidden history of women in intelligence
Jan 15, 2024
The Bloomsbury Group: everything you wanted to know
Jan 14, 2024
'Madness' and the supernatural
Jan 12, 2024
Boston Tea Party | 5. A complex legacy
Jan 11, 2024
Why were the Romantics obsessed with Mount Vesuvius?
Jan 10, 2024
Life of the Week: Stalin
Jan 09, 2024
James Longstreet: Confederate Judas
Jan 08, 2024
Medieval popes: everything you wanted to know
Jan 07, 2024
A history of song: from Schumann to Sting
Jan 05, 2024
Boston Tea Party | 4. The crackdown
Jan 04, 2024
Aztec warfare
Jan 03, 2024
History Behind the Headlines: Elections, ‘panda diplomacy’ and the word of the year
Jan 02, 2024
How spies shaped the modern world
Jan 01, 2024
The Habsburgs: everything you wanted to know
Dec 31, 2023
The medieval Welsh Marches: identity on the frontier
Dec 29, 2023
Boston Tea Party | 3. The destruction of the tea
Dec 28, 2023
Sherlock Holmes: the real history that inspired the detective stories
Dec 27, 2023
Life of the week: Queen Victoria
Dec 26, 2023
Merry Christmas from the HistoryExtra podcast
Dec 25, 2023
Druids: everything you wanted to know
Dec 24, 2023
Bannockburn: Robert the Bruce’s greatest victory
Dec 22, 2023
Boston Tea Party | 2. The Sons of Liberty
Dec 21, 2023
Amazing Grace: a story of salvation and slavery
Dec 20, 2023
Life of the week: Amelia Earhart
Dec 19, 2023
Nazi Germany: the myth of the innocent bystander
Dec 18, 2023
1970s Britain: everything you wanted to know
Dec 17, 2023
Caesar | 4. Honourable men
Dec 16, 2023
Caesar | 5. The dogs of war
Dec 16, 2023
Caesar | 1. Beware the Ides of March
Dec 16, 2023
Caesar | 6. The evil that men do
Dec 16, 2023
Caesar | 2. Was this ambition?
Dec 16, 2023
Caesar | 3. Master of his fate
Dec 16, 2023
Netflix's The Crown: history and storytelling
Dec 15, 2023
Boston Tea Party | 1. Tea and taxes
Dec 14, 2023
Boston Tea Party: Igniting a revolution | Trailer
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