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The HistoryExtra podcast brings you interviews with the world's best historians, on everything from the ancient world and the Middle Ages to the Second World War and the history behind current events. Produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed, it offers fresh takes on history's most famous figures and events. Subscribe for the real stories behind your favourite historical films and TV shows, and compelling insights into lesser-known aspects of the past.

Episode Date
David Mitchell on a new history of England’s monarchy
Oct 01, 2023
Archaeology’s golden age: everything you wanted to know
Sep 30, 2023
One day in the British empire
Sep 28, 2023
Great Reputations: Emmeline Pankhurst
Sep 27, 2023
Radio Times: a century of British broadcasting
Sep 26, 2023
How to live like a Roman emperor
Sep 25, 2023
How has fear shaped history?
Sep 24, 2023
The Battle of Britain: everything you wanted to know
Sep 23, 2023
Rocket women: America’s first female astronauts
Sep 21, 2023
Great Reputations: Napoleon
Sep 20, 2023
Chaos & violence in country houses
Sep 19, 2023
The shoemaker who helped slaves escape the South
Sep 18, 2023
Scandals that shocked Georgian Britain
Sep 17, 2023
British parliament: everything you wanted to know
Sep 16, 2023
When poison pen letters caused chaos
Sep 14, 2023
Great Reputations: Cleopatra
Sep 13, 2023
Secrets of the Anglo-Saxon bone chests
Sep 12, 2023
Jane Austen’s passion for fashion
Sep 11, 2023
The brain behind the Dambusters raid
Sep 10, 2023
Spanish flu: everything you wanted to know
Sep 09, 2023
Women who shaped the Roman empire
Sep 07, 2023
Great Reputations: Oliver Cromwell
Sep 06, 2023
The secret club for radical New York women
Sep 05, 2023
Margaret Cavendish: scandalous 17th-century writer
Sep 04, 2023
The triumph of Joan of Arc
Sep 03, 2023
Rome v Carthage: everything you wanted to know
Sep 02, 2023
Tokyo’s devastating 1923 earthquake
Aug 31, 2023
US Civil Rights: legacy
Aug 30, 2023
On the trail of a Nazi war criminal
Aug 29, 2023
How did empire shape modern Britain?
Aug 28, 2023
Why did medieval Europe become Christian?
Aug 27, 2023
The Mongols: everything you wanted to know
Aug 26, 2023
The lost world of Dickens’ London
Aug 24, 2023
US Civil Rights: Malcolm X’s assassination
Aug 23, 2023
The miners’ strike: a view from the ground
Aug 22, 2023
California’s hidden history of slavery
Aug 21, 2023
Letters from medieval England
Aug 20, 2023
New Zealand: everything you wanted to know
Aug 19, 2023
Indian experiences in WW2
Aug 17, 2023
US Civil Rights: the 1964 Civil Rights Act
Aug 16, 2023
Learning disabilities: an overlooked history
Aug 15, 2023
Secrets of ancient Chinese tombs
Aug 14, 2023
How forgers helped rescue Holocaust victims
Aug 13, 2023
Ancient Egyptian religion: everything you wanted to know
Aug 12, 2023
Introducing HistoryExtra Long Reads
Aug 11, 2023
Did our ancestors really think the world was flat?
Aug 10, 2023
US Civil Rights: the March on Washington
Aug 09, 2023
Roger Mortimer: medieval rebel
Aug 08, 2023
Emotional revolution in postwar Britain
Aug 07, 2023
Rome vs Persia: an unwinnable fight
Aug 06, 2023
British seaside holidays: everything you wanted to know
Aug 05, 2023
Surviving Hitler and Stalin
Aug 03, 2023
US Civil Rights: the Montgomery bus boycott
Aug 02, 2023
Renaissance beauty regimes
Aug 01, 2023
AI: An ancient nightmare?
Jul 31, 2023
A jujitsu-trained suffragette bodyguard
Jul 30, 2023
The NHS: everything you wanted to know
Jul 29, 2023
Life in a WW2 tank regiment
Jul 27, 2023
US Civil Rights: Fighting for freedom
Jul 26, 2023
US Civil Rights: the lynching of Emmett Till
Jul 26, 2023
A ring of poisoners: Hungary’s most notorious murders
Jul 25, 2023
RAF Coastal Command: unsung heroes of WW2
Jul 24, 2023
UFO sightings: an otherworldly history
Jul 23, 2023
Dog history: everything you wanted to know
Jul 22, 2023
History's greatest cities | Season 2 Trailer
Jul 21, 2023
Oppenheimer: “destroyer of worlds”
Jul 20, 2023
How Barbie changed the world
Jul 19, 2023
Britain’s love affair with Edward VII
Jul 18, 2023
The WAAF: the many behind the few
Jul 17, 2023
Eastern Europe: a personal journey through the region’s past
Jul 16, 2023
Roman gods & goddesses: everything you wanted to know
Jul 15, 2023
Blindness: a cultural history
Jul 13, 2023
Big questions of the Crimean War: aftermath and legacy
Jul 12, 2023
Kate Mosse on pirate women & Huguenot refugees
Jul 11, 2023
How did medieval people tell the time?
Jul 10, 2023
Lost civilisations of the Mediterranean
Jul 09, 2023
1980s Britain: everything you wanted to know
Jul 08, 2023
Tom Holland on Rome’s golden age
Jul 06, 2023
Big questions of the Crimean War: into the Valley of Death
Jul 05, 2023
Why Britain fell in love with the NHS
Jul 04, 2023
From mysterious knitting needles to strange silhouettes: recreating historical clothing
Jul 03, 2023
Life on Britain’s WW1 home front
Jul 02, 2023
The Franco-Prussian war: everything you wanted to know
Jul 01, 2023
How the Age of Revolutions rocked the Royal Navy
Jun 29, 2023
Big questions of the Crimean War: the build up
Jun 28, 2023
The Georgian Bank of England: a day in the life
Jun 27, 2023
How germs shaped human history
Jun 26, 2023
Salon Kitty: sex & spying in Nazi Germany
Jun 25, 2023
The Luddites: everything you wanted to know
Jun 24, 2023
Women on the front line, from forgotten commanders to cross-dressing soldiers
Jun 22, 2023
Before Windrush: Britain’s long relationship with the Caribbean
Jun 21, 2023
Cornwall: a brief history
Jun 20, 2023
Franco’s Spain: paranoia, conspiracy & antisemitism
Jun 19, 2023
The myth and memory of Waterloo
Jun 18, 2023
Coffee history: everything you wanted to know
Jun 17, 2023
Caesar: Death of a Dictator Trailer
Jun 16, 2023
Economies in meltdown: lessons from past financial crashes
Jun 15, 2023
Living through the Troubles
Jun 14, 2023
What can we learn from the fall of Rome?
Jun 13, 2023
Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: the overlooked bonds between mother & daughter
Jun 12, 2023
Fight like a man? Masculinity in WW2
Jun 11, 2023
Penal transportation to Australia: everything you wanted to know
Jun 10, 2023
Pregnancy & childbirth in the 19th century
Jun 08, 2023
Historical echoes of the Ukraine war
Jun 07, 2023
Plato: the world’s greatest philosopher?
Jun 06, 2023
How women helped sustain the slave trade
Jun 05, 2023
The fall and rise of Henry III
Jun 04, 2023
The SAS in WW2: everything you wanted to know
Jun 03, 2023
Plot or paranoia? The Amboyna conspiracy trial
Jun 01, 2023
Messalina: sex, slander & scandal in imperial Rome
May 31, 2023
Amazing archaeological discoveries that trounce Indiana Jones
May 30, 2023
Living the life of luxury with the Persians & Greeks
May 29, 2023
Simon Schama on how inoculation changed the world
May 28, 2023
Mountaineering on Everest: everything you want to know
May 27, 2023
The History Extra podcast – tell us what you think
May 26, 2023
Is history too politicised?
May 25, 2023
Six wives | 6. Katherine Parr
May 24, 2023
Battling the British empire
May 23, 2023
William the Conqueror’s invasion plans
May 22, 2023
Did Black Death trigger the rise of Europe?
May 21, 2023
Chartism: everything you wanted to know
May 20, 2023
Three young queens: the unexpected bonds between Renaissance royals
May 18, 2023
Six wives | 5. Catherine Howard
May 17, 2023
Ramesses II: Egypt’s greatest pharaoh?
May 16, 2023
Tudor childhood: from dodging death to nursery rhymes
May 15, 2023
What can Richard I tell us about medieval masculinity?
May 14, 2023
Britain in the 1990s: everything you wanted to know
May 13, 2023
Everyday life in East Germany
May 11, 2023
Six wives | 4. Anne of Cleves
May 10, 2023
Why revolution engulfed 19th-century Europe
May 09, 2023
Keeping time: a watchmaker’s history
May 08, 2023
Native Americans: a new history
May 07, 2023
Goths: everything you wanted to know
May 06, 2023
How (and how not) to stage a coronation
May 04, 2023
Six wives | 3. Jane Seymour
May 03, 2023
Queen Charlotte: real history behind the new Bridgerton series
May 02, 2023
Pomp & power: royal ceremonies through the centuries
May 01, 2023
WW2 the big questions: final stages of the conflict
Apr 30, 2023
Westminster Abbey: everything you wanted to know
Apr 29, 2023
How the Bristol bus boycott changed Britain
Apr 27, 2023
Six wives | 2. Anne Boleyn
Apr 26, 2023
The Waco siege: an American tragedy
Apr 25, 2023
Shipwreck, scurvy & mutiny: the gruelling tale of HMS Wager
Apr 24, 2023
WW2 the big questions: the Holocaust
Apr 23, 2023
Crusader states: everything you wanted to know
Apr 22, 2023
How women were excluded from sport – and fought back
Apr 20, 2023
Six wives | 1. Catherine of Aragon
Apr 19, 2023
Æthelflæd: ‘Mother of the English’
Apr 18, 2023
Mindbending experiments: how drugs shaped modern science
Apr 17, 2023
WW2 the big questions: the ‘Big Three’
Apr 16, 2023
Russian tsars: everything you wanted to know
Apr 15, 2023
‘Black Douglas’: a not so dastardly bushranger?
Apr 13, 2023
The KGB’s secret war on the west
Apr 12, 2023
Century of chaos: people & power in the 1600s
Apr 11, 2023
What Norse poetry reveals about the Viking age
Apr 10, 2023
WW2 the big questions: the early years of the conflict
Apr 09, 2023
Life in the trenches: everything you wanted to know
Apr 08, 2023
Nuclear apocalypse in Britain
Apr 06, 2023
Wild urban spaces: a history
Apr 05, 2023
Boudica’s rebellion: a blood-soaked blow to the Roman empire
Apr 04, 2023
What did the Tudors wear?
Apr 03, 2023
WW2 the big questions: the build up
Apr 03, 2023
British castles: everything you wanted to know
Apr 01, 2023
The mindset behind the Holocaust
Mar 30, 2023
Grisly killings & mysterious motives: murder in early modern Britain
Mar 29, 2023
The man who almost discovered the double helix
Mar 28, 2023
Marriage, Middlemarch & male pseudonyms: George Eliot’s unconventional life
Mar 27, 2023
George VI’s Nazi dilemma
Mar 26, 2023
The Seven Years’ War: everything you wanted to know
Mar 26, 2023
Six Wives Trailer
Mar 25, 2023
Patriarchy’s long roots
Mar 24, 2023
Disciplining the “scum of the Earth”
Mar 23, 2023
Women & the crusades: patronage, propaganda & prayer
Mar 22, 2023
Science & religion: a story of war or harmony?
Mar 21, 2023
The North: from Bede to Lowry
Mar 20, 2023
Paganism: everything you wanted to know
Mar 19, 2023
Eat for victory: WW2’s “British Restaurants”
Mar 17, 2023
Madame Restell: the abortionist who shocked and fascinated 19th-century New York
Mar 16, 2023
Medieval manuscripts: an enduring obsession
Mar 15, 2023
Njinga: queen, warrior, diplomat
Mar 14, 2023
Sirens, succubi & sex symbols: a history of female monsters
Mar 13, 2023
Britain’s WW2 home front: everything you wanted to know
Mar 12, 2023
Treasure, heritage & returning artefacts
Mar 11, 2023
Satire & scandal: the printmakers who mocked Georgian society
Mar 10, 2023
Elizabethan witchcraft: a trial that divided a community
Mar 09, 2023
The Iraq War, 20 years on
Mar 08, 2023
Volcanoes & nuclear armageddon: humanity’s long relationship with nature
Mar 07, 2023
Meeting the Mughals: England’s disastrous first embassy to India
Mar 06, 2023
Medieval women: everything you wanted to know
Mar 05, 2023
History’s greatest cities: Prague Trailer
Mar 04, 2023
Adventure, betrayal & beetles: the quest for the source of the Nile
Mar 03, 2023
The Tudor who hiked North America
Mar 02, 2023
Dick Whittington: from medieval merchant to panto hero
Mar 01, 2023
Pirate flags & wedding gowns: a patchwork of a Victorian life
Feb 28, 2023
Oscar Wilde on trial
Feb 27, 2023
Medieval peasants: everything you wanted to know
Feb 26, 2023
History's greatest cities | Berlin
Feb 25, 2023
The book that transformed medieval England
Feb 24, 2023
Why the Middle Ages matter
Feb 23, 2023
The cult of Freud: science, sex & psychoanalysis
Feb 22, 2023
Breastfeeding: a cultural history
Feb 21, 2023
Heliogabalus: Rome’s scandalous emperor
Feb 20, 2023
Interwar Britain: everything you wanted to know
Feb 19, 2023
Which LGBTQ+ histories get told – and which get overlooked?
Feb 17, 2023
From the Middle Ages to #MeToo: Chaucer’s Wife of Bath
Feb 16, 2023
Astonishing Æthelstan: Michael Wood on the 10th-century king
Feb 15, 2023
Cleopatra’s triumphant daughter
Feb 14, 2023
Marie Antoinette in her own words
Feb 13, 2023
The Romantics: everything you wanted to know
Feb 12, 2023
Fearless female voices of the Spanish Civil War
Feb 10, 2023
Why did the Ottoman empire implode?
Feb 09, 2023
Was Shakespeare a snob?
Feb 08, 2023
Tudors in revolt: the Western Rising of 1549
Feb 07, 2023
Female spies who forged the CIA
Feb 06, 2023
Prehistoric cave art: everything you want to know
Feb 05, 2023
A secret Nazi plot to kill the ‘Big Three’
Feb 03, 2023
Wild places & wild people: a short history of common land
Feb 02, 2023
The forgotten years that forged Wales
Feb 01, 2023
How six women programmed the world’s first modern computer
Jan 31, 2023
Tattoos: a 5,000 year history
Jan 30, 2023
Railway history: everything you wanted to know
Jan 29, 2023
Forgotten histories of the Holocaust
Jan 27, 2023
An audacious kidnapping in 1970s Paris
Jan 26, 2023
Blood, sweat & marble: examining ancient bodies
Jan 25, 2023
A journey along the Iron Curtain
Jan 24, 2023
Fleeing revolution: Russians exiles in Paris
Jan 23, 2023
The history of atheism: everything you wanted to know
Jan 22, 2023
How FDR transformed the US presidency
Jan 20, 2023
Indigenous American travellers in Europe
Jan 19, 2023
The PoWs who survived Nagasaki
Jan 18, 2023
Parachuting monkeys & volcanic eruptions: an extraordinary Victorian zoo
Jan 17, 2023
Curious cures for medieval maladies
Jan 16, 2023
Jane Austen’s England: everything you wanted to know
Jan 15, 2023
Veggie Victorians
Jan 13, 2023
An environmental history of big business
Jan 12, 2023
Tools, temples & tower blocks: how wood has shaped human history
Jan 11, 2023
Weaponising food in the Third Reich
Jan 10, 2023
“A serial killer of civilisations”: a history of climate change
Jan 09, 2023
Life under Cromwell: everything you wanted to know
Jan 08, 2023
Oddball art: cannibals, hellscapes & flying monks
Jan 06, 2023
The floating hell of prison hulks
Jan 05, 2023
Refusing to fight in WW2
Jan 04, 2023
Power dressing: the hidden value of clothes in 19th-century America
Jan 03, 2023
Sabotage, cyberwar & assassination: a history of covert action
Jan 02, 2023
Conspiracy: the lost civilisation of Atlantis
Jan 01, 2023
Conspiracy: was the moon landing faked?
Dec 30, 2022
Conspiracy: Who wrote Shakespeare?
Dec 29, 2022
Conspiracy: did Anastasia escape her family’s murder?
Dec 28, 2022
Conspiracy: did aliens build the pyramids?
Dec 27, 2022
Conspiracy: Hitler’s escape to South America
Dec 26, 2022
Alexander the Great’s extraordinary childhood
Dec 23, 2022
The Cuban Missile Crisis: the road to resolution
Dec 22, 2022
Dandies, fops & macaronis: fashionable men through history
Dec 21, 2022
Brits abroad: a history
Dec 20, 2022
Mongols vs Mamluks
Dec 19, 2022
The history of alcohol: everything you wanted to know
Dec 18, 2022
How ballroom dancing gripped Britain
Dec 16, 2022
The Cuban Missile Crisis: Dangerous days
Dec 15, 2022
The hell of the Pacific War
Dec 14, 2022
Inside Germany’s postwar prisons
Dec 13, 2022
Pilgrimage, past and present
Dec 12, 2022
British spies in WW2: everything you wanted to know
Dec 11, 2022
Black Victorians: radicals, muses, inmates & aristocrats
Dec 09, 2022
The Cuban Missile Crisis: broken ties & a secret pact
Dec 08, 2022
Football in the First World War
Dec 07, 2022
The Irish across the globe
Dec 06, 2022
Warrior queens & quiet revolutionaries: forgotten women from history
Dec 05, 2022
Sixties counterculture: everything you wanted to know
Dec 04, 2022
Conspiracy Trailer
Dec 03, 2022
Books of the year 2022
Dec 02, 2022
The Cuban Missile Crisis: tensions mount
Dec 01, 2022
Debtors’ prisons: Dickensian horrors or economic successes?
Nov 30, 2022
Dark Age bullies & forgotten kingdoms: busting early medieval myths
Nov 29, 2022
Enslavement, separation & survival: the story of "Ashley's sack"
Nov 28, 2022
Surgical history: everything you wanted to know
Nov 27, 2022
Cuban Missile Crisis TRAILER
Nov 26, 2022
American psychiatry: a tortured history
Nov 25, 2022
The Mary Rose | 6. protecting the wreck
Nov 24, 2022
Spiritualism, fairies, and Arthur Conan-Doyle
Nov 23, 2022
Desk killers: the psychology of committing crimes against humanity
Nov 22, 2022
Mary, Queen of Scots: The Scottish years
Nov 21, 2022
World Cup history: everything you wanted to know
Nov 20, 2022
Crassus: Rome’s richest man
Nov 18, 2022
The Mary Rose | 5. the mysterious men on-board
Nov 17, 2022
Global stories of museum artefacts
Nov 16, 2022
Victorian visions of the future
Nov 15, 2022
Queens in the Age of Chivalry
Nov 14, 2022
The Crimean War: everything you wanted to know
Nov 13, 2022
Writing the history of the modern monarchy
Nov 12, 2022
The Mary Rose | 4. inside the Tudor treasure trove
Nov 11, 2022
A whistle-stop tour around the world in AD 1500
Nov 10, 2022
Are period dramas damaging history?
Nov 09, 2022
Pharaohs' pants & knightly toilet troubles: teaching history to kids
Nov 08, 2022
Medieval excommunication: eternal damnation or no big deal?
Nov 07, 2022
The gunpowder plot: everything you wanted to know
Nov 06, 2022
How is Tutankhamun’s legacy shaped by colonialism?
Nov 04, 2022
The Mary Rose | 3. the fatal final moments
Nov 03, 2022
History & science: the big questions
Nov 02, 2022
How the Allies plucked victory from the jaws of defeat
Nov 01, 2022
Halloween monsters: everything you wanted to know
Oct 31, 2022
Halloween traditions: everything you wanted to know
Oct 29, 2022
Christianity: a success story from the start?
Oct 27, 2022
The Mary Rose | 2. the Tudor heyday of Henry VIII’s warship
Oct 26, 2022
A family history of the world
Oct 25, 2022
Cuba & the USA: an intertwined history
Oct 24, 2022
Chaos, ruin & renewal: Germany in 1945
Oct 23, 2022
Sci-fi history: everything you wanted to know
Oct 22, 2022
The Cuban Missile Crisis Series Trailer
Oct 22, 2022
Chaucer’s disputed legacy: new discoveries
Oct 21, 2022
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan: war without end
Oct 20, 2022
The Mary Rose | 1. raising the wreck
Oct 19, 2022
Spectacles of death: public executions in London
Oct 18, 2022
Berlin’s turbulent 20th century
Oct 17, 2022
A mutineer in the family
Oct 16, 2022
The Bank of England: everything you wanted to know
Oct 15, 2022
Empire: the big historical questions
Oct 14, 2022
1066: the pope and the conqueror
Oct 13, 2022
Why Bond and the Beatles ruled the sixties
Oct 12, 2022
Ian McEwan on writing historical novels
Oct 11, 2022
The Congo-Océan railroad’s deadly history
Oct 10, 2022
15 minutes of fame: rediscovering forgotten figures
Oct 09, 2022
Black British history: everything you wanted to know
Oct 08, 2022
Richard III returns
Oct 06, 2022
Robert Harris on the manhunt for Charles I’s killers
Oct 05, 2022
Anti-Chinese prejudice: from gold rushes to exclusion laws
Oct 04, 2022
WW2’s most daring raid
Oct 03, 2022
15 minutes of fame: Babur, dynasty founder and diarist
Oct 02, 2022
The Knights Templar: everything you wanted to know
Oct 01, 2022
Clash of cultures: how interpreters bridged the gap between Britain and China
Sep 29, 2022
What can one woman reveal about Jewish life in medieval England?
Sep 28, 2022
The Napoleon of Fleet Street
Sep 27, 2022
Should mummies be on display?
Sep 26, 2022
15 minutes of fame: Hannah Humphrey, entrepreneurial Georgian printseller
Sep 25, 2022
The CIA: everything you wanted to know
Sep 24, 2022
The end of Roman Britain: families, ancestors and DNA
Sep 23, 2022
Love, marriage & wallpaper: the artistic lives of Jane and William Morris
Sep 22, 2022
Tutankhamun | 7. the contested legacy of an icon
Sep 21, 2022
African and Caribbean people in Britain: a 2,000-year history
Sep 20, 2022
Dangerous ideas & scandalous lives: Germany’s first Romantics
Sep 19, 2022
15 minutes of fame: Kleisthenes, father of Athenian democracy
Sep 18, 2022
Royal funerals: everything you wanted to know
Sep 17, 2022
Dan Jones on writing historical fiction
Sep 15, 2022
Tutankhamun | 6. secrets of the pharaoh's mummy
Sep 14, 2022
Escape from Colditz
Sep 13, 2022
Winter is coming: the Anglo-Saxon year
Sep 12, 2022
15 minutes of fame: Aina Forbes Bonetta, Queen Victoria’s Yoruba goddaughter
Sep 11, 2022
Roman women: everything you wanted to know
Sep 10, 2022
The Mary Rose | TRAILER
Sep 09, 2022
Author, adventurer, archaeologist: Agatha Christie’s action-packed life
Sep 08, 2022
Tutankhamun | 5. Treasures of the tomb
Sep 07, 2022
The Holocaust: a 21st-century view
Sep 06, 2022
Russia’s national past: unpicking history from propaganda
Sep 06, 2022
15 minutes of fame: Malintzin, Aztec interpreter
Sep 04, 2022
Ellis Island: everything you wanted to know
Sep 03, 2022
HistoryExtra Plus - Summer Listening Trailer
Sep 03, 2022
How nomads changed the world
Sep 01, 2022
Tutankhamun | 4. The mystery of Nefertiti
Aug 31, 2022
Return of the Viking raiders
Aug 30, 2022
The big questions of religious history
Aug 29, 2022
15 minutes of fame: Franz Nopcsa, Hungarian adventurer and palaeontologist
Aug 28, 2022
Troy: everything you wanted to know
Aug 28, 2022
Castles: from mighty fortresses to fantastical palaces
Aug 26, 2022
Tutankhamun | 3. Life & death of a boy king
Aug 25, 2022
Glass men & killer doubles: a history of delusions
Aug 24, 2022
The BBC at 100: what can history tell us about its future?
Aug 23, 2022
15 minutes of fame: St Hadrian of Canterbury, medieval African theologian
Aug 21, 2022
Robin Hood: everything you wanted to know
Aug 21, 2022
How one woman liberated a notorious US slave jail
Aug 19, 2022
Tutankhamun | 2. Egypt in the era of the boy king
Aug 18, 2022
Lost languages & travelling communities: unexpected medieval histories
Aug 17, 2022
Countryside campaigners: four women who fought for our green spaces
Aug 16, 2022
15 minutes of fame: Charley Wilson, working-class trans man
Aug 15, 2022
Hollywood history: everything you wanted to know
Aug 14, 2022
The Sahara: a green and pleasant land
Aug 12, 2022
Tutankhamun | 1. Unearthing the boy king’s lost tomb
Aug 11, 2022
Is Queen Henrietta Maria’s rotten reputation deserved?
Aug 10, 2022
Measurement: an unexpected history
Aug 09, 2022
15 minutes of fame: Alice Kinloch, Pan-African activist
Aug 08, 2022
First World War poets: everything you wanted to know
Aug 07, 2022
Stalingrad: a soldier’s testimony
Aug 05, 2022
Medieval monks: a day in the life
Aug 04, 2022
Gone with the Wind: how a 1936 novel explains modern America
Aug 03, 2022
Treason: from Anne Boleyn to Lord Haw Haw
Aug 02, 2022
15 minutes of fame: St Wilfrid, quarrelsome church reformer
Aug 01, 2022
Gold rushes: everything you wanted to know
Jul 31, 2022
Reconstructing black lives in the Antebellum South
Jul 29, 2022
The end of Roman Britain | 8. ends and beginnings
Jul 28, 2022
Hannibal: Rome’s greatest nightmare
Jul 27, 2022
Stalin’s library: inside the mind of a dictator
Jul 26, 2022
15 minutes of fame: Queen Tiye, overshadowed ancient Egyptian royal
Jul 25, 2022
The partition of India: everything you wanted to know
Jul 24, 2022
The BBC at 100: scandals break
Jul 22, 2022
The end of Roman Britain | 7. bones, diet and migrants
Jul 21, 2022
The first Vietnam War
Jul 20, 2022
Powerful pages: the beguiling history of books
Jul 19, 2022
15 minutes of fame: Marie Tharp, ground-breaking cartographer
Jul 18, 2022
The Inca empire: everything you wanted to know
Jul 17, 2022
The vanishing inventor
Jul 15, 2022
The end of Roman Britain | 6. cultures lost and found
Jul 14, 2022
Britain’s century of political nightmares
Jul 13, 2022
Royal rivals? Medieval England and France’s tempestuous relationship
Jul 12, 2022
15 minutes of fame: Tsiang Ting-fu, Chinese historian and diplomat
Jul 11, 2022
The Peasants’ Revolt: everything you wanted to know
Jul 10, 2022
Elizabeth I’s greatest rival?
Jul 08, 2022
The end of Roman Britain | 5. an identity crisis?
Jul 07, 2022
David Stirling: SAS hero or fraud?
Jul 06, 2022
The Norman kings of Africa
Jul 05, 2022
15 minutes of fame: Hildegard of Bingen, medieval polymath
Jul 04, 2022
British schools and education: everything you wanted to know
Jul 03, 2022
On the streets of 19th-century London
Jul 01, 2022
The end of Roman Britain | 4. religion and belief
Jun 30, 2022
Casanova: more than a serial seducer
Jun 29, 2022
From bohemian Brighton to military Plymouth: the LGBTQ history of four British cities
Jun 28, 2022
15 minutes of fame: Marguerite de Navarre, royal influencer
Jun 27, 2022
The Mali empire: everything you wanted to know
Jun 26, 2022
The BBC at 100: political tensions in the 1970s and 80s
Jun 24, 2022
The end of Roman Britain | 3. a militarised state?
Jun 23, 2022
Who were the Celts?
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The hunt for Caesar’s killers
Jan 28, 2021
Werewolves of the ancient world
Jan 27, 2021
Rich vs poor in Regency Britain
Jan 26, 2021
Spectacular discoveries at Sutton Hoo
Jan 25, 2021
The Persian empire: everything you wanted to know
Jan 24, 2021
The shipwreck that sank a royal dynasty
Jan 23, 2021
The NHS: a brief history
Jan 22, 2021
Rebuilding Europe after WW2
Jan 21, 2021
How oceans shaped human civilisation
Jan 20, 2021
Searching for freedom after the Holocaust
Jan 19, 2021
The race for vaccines: lessons from history
Jan 18, 2021
Britain’s Swinging Sixties: everything you wanted to know
Jan 17, 2021
MI9’s secret escape missions
Jan 16, 2021
Hitler and Stalin: tyrants at war
Jan 15, 2021
How historians helped build the British empire
Jan 14, 2021
When British pop invaded America
Jan 13, 2021
The collapse of the Third Reich
Jan 12, 2021
Domesday Book: medieval big data
Jan 11, 2021
The Renaissance: everything you wanted to know
Jan 10, 2021
The decline and death of Henry VIII
Jan 09, 2021
Was the 1990s a golden age for British South Asians?
Jan 08, 2021
Editor’s pick: Ian Kershaw on postwar Europe
Jan 07, 2021
Brexit’s long historical roots
Jan 06, 2021
Editor’s pick: Lenin’s revolutionary train journey
Jan 05, 2021
The battle for Sicily, 1943
Jan 04, 2021
The Industrial Revolution: everything you wanted to know
Jan 03, 2021
German Jews in WW1
Jan 02, 2021
Bizarre books and macabre manuscripts
Jan 01, 2021
Bonnie Prince Charlie: hero or coward?
Dec 31, 2020
Editor’s pick: covert Catholicism in Elizabethan England
Dec 30, 2020
Thomas Becket: from murder to martyrdom
Dec 29, 2020
Bridgerton: ripping up the rulebook on Regency romance
Dec 28, 2020
The Wars of the Roses: everything you wanted to know about
Dec 27, 2020
Editor’s pick: the Windrush generation
Dec 24, 2020
Our 2020 Christmas quiz
Dec 23, 2020
Editor’s pick: Ron Chernow on Alexander Hamilton
Dec 22, 2020
Christmas ghost stories
Dec 21, 2020
The history of Christmas: everything you wanted to know
Dec 20, 2020
A WW2 story of survival
Dec 19, 2020
Editor’s pick: Were the suffragettes terrorists?
Dec 18, 2020
Ten things to do with a medieval donkey
Dec 17, 2020
Hunting down the Portland Spy Ring
Dec 16, 2020
The gay MPs who opposed appeasement
Dec 14, 2020
Magna Carta: everything you wanted to know
Dec 13, 2020
Japan and the west
Dec 12, 2020
Cundill Prize-winner Camilla Townsend on global history
Dec 11, 2020
Castro and the trip that shaped the 1960s
Dec 10, 2020
Imperialism on the oceans
Dec 09, 2020
The International Brigades: fighting fascism in Spain
Dec 07, 2020
The Glorious Revolution: everything you wanted to know
Dec 06, 2020
The orphan hero who fought at Trafalgar
Dec 05, 2020
England’s sporting obsession
Dec 04, 2020
How did the Reformation impact Jews?
Dec 03, 2020
Ethiopia 1935: The real history behind The Shadow King
Dec 02, 2020
The ‘lost’ city of Atlantis
Nov 30, 2020
Ancient Babylon: everything you wanted to know
Nov 29, 2020
Looking for Egypt’s lost tombs
Nov 28, 2020
Robert Harris on V2, historical fiction and WW2
Nov 27, 2020
2020: The historians’ verdict
Nov 26, 2020
Women in Greek myths
Nov 25, 2020
Germans who resisted the Nazis
Nov 23, 2020
Shakespeare: everything you wanted to know
Nov 22, 2020
A secret WW2 wargame
Nov 21, 2020
Bernard Cornwell on The Last Kingdom’s finale and the next Sharpe
Nov 20, 2020
Oswald, the many-headed medieval saint
Nov 19, 2020
Has the EU been a success?
Nov 18, 2020
An extraordinary Everest adventure
Nov 16, 2020
The Wild West: everything you wanted to know
Nov 15, 2020
Viking warrior women & the ethics of excavating the dead
Nov 14, 2020
War and society: a tangled relationship
Nov 13, 2020
Ingenious medieval science
Nov 12, 2020
Women in black: the surprising history of widows
Nov 11, 2020
Personal stories of the Second World War
Nov 09, 2020
The Russian revolution: everything you wanted to know
Nov 08, 2020
The story of the Dambusters
Nov 07, 2020
Inside the Viking mind
Nov 06, 2020
Escaping Nazi-occupied Europe
Nov 05, 2020
The White Ship: a medieval royal tragedy
Nov 04, 2020
An ‘ordinary’ Nazi
Nov 02, 2020
Medical history: everything you wanted to know
Nov 01, 2020
Poland 1939: The invasion that sparked WW2
Oct 31, 2020
The Falklands War in the air
Oct 30, 2020
Unexpected Irish tales
Oct 29, 2020
Black Britons in WW2
Oct 28, 2020
At sea with the Vikings
Oct 27, 2020
Adventure & opportunity: female transatlantic travellers
Oct 26, 2020
The Regency era: everything you wanted to know
Oct 25, 2020
Tudor queens on screen
Oct 24, 2020
Moving, medieval-style
Oct 23, 2020
Enslaved women & resistance
Oct 21, 2020
Aztecs in their own words
Oct 20, 2020
A new take on India’s history
Oct 19, 2020
The French Revolution: Everything you need to know
Oct 18, 2020
A Triple Bond Broken: The Destruction of the House of York
Oct 17, 2020
An Atlantic slave war
Oct 16, 2020
An Anglo-Saxon warlord
Oct 15, 2020
Ancient wisdom with Neil Oliver
Oct 14, 2020
Black radical: William Monroe Trotter
Oct 13, 2020
The dispossession of Native Americans
Oct 12, 2020
Everything you ever wanted to know about medieval daily life, but were afraid to ask
Oct 11, 2020
Should I stay or I should go? The problem with historical monuments in 2020
Oct 10, 2020
Sparta
Oct 09, 2020
Medieval turning points
Oct 07, 2020
The rise and fall of the Sikh empire
Oct 05, 2020
Everything you ever wanted to know about the history of Japan, but were afraid to ask
Oct 04, 2020
Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944
Oct 03, 2020
A 1930s ghost hunt
Oct 02, 2020
Medieval eels and Englishness
Sep 30, 2020
Ken Follett’s Anglo-Saxon adventure
Sep 28, 2020
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Neanderthals, but were afraid to ask
Sep 27, 2020
Simon de Montfort and England’s First Revolution
Sep 26, 2020
Toussaint Louverture’s revolutionary life
Sep 25, 2020
The Mayflower
Sep 24, 2020
JFK: the path to power
Sep 23, 2020
Viking genes unravelled
Sep 22, 2020
Hitler’s vengeance
Sep 21, 2020
Everything you ever wanted to know about the East India Company, but were afraid to ask
Sep 20, 2020
Ghosts of Viking London
Sep 19, 2020
Ben Macintyre on Agent Sonya – the greatest female spy in history
Sep 18, 2020
Prisoners of the Japanese
Sep 16, 2020
Medieval rebellions
Sep 14, 2020
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Suffragettes, but were afraid to ask
Sep 13, 2020
Scythians: Warrior Nomads of the Steppe
Sep 12, 2020
A Cold War killing?
Sep 11, 2020
Simon Schama on the Romantics
Sep 09, 2020
Isabel Wilkerson on caste in America
Sep 07, 2020
Everything you ever wanted to know about the legends of King Arthur, but were afraid to ask
Sep 06, 2020
The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj
Sep 05, 2020
Britain goes to war, part 2
Sep 04, 2020
Britain goes to war, part 1
Sep 03, 2020
Ernest Bevin: working-class warrior
Sep 02, 2020
The uncommon lives of common sailors
Aug 31, 2020
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Hundred Years’ War, but were afraid to ask
Aug 30, 2020
Crusaders: An Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands
Aug 29, 2020
The extraordinary life of Sultan Selim I
Aug 28, 2020
Edward the Confessor
Aug 26, 2020
Revisiting the Kindertransport
Aug 24, 2020
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Aztecs, but were afraid to ask
Aug 23, 2020
Who Dares Wins: Britain in the Age of the Falklands
Aug 22, 2020
The story of the Freemasons
Aug 21, 2020
Africa’s cultural liberation
Aug 19, 2020
The history of seduction
Aug 17, 2020
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Spanish Civil War, but were afraid to ask
Aug 16, 2020
Could D-Day Have Failed?
Aug 15, 2020
Victory in the east
Aug 14, 2020
What’s in a medieval name?
Aug 12, 2020
Authors in the Boer War
Aug 10, 2020
Everything you ever wanted to know about the American Civil War, but were afraid to ask
Aug 09, 2020
Medieval Wonder Women
Aug 08, 2020
Documents that changed the world
Aug 07, 2020
Peter Frankopan on global history in 2020
Aug 05, 2020
Medieval dynasties: how to stay on the throne
Aug 03, 2020
Everything you ever wanted to know about Ancient Greece, but were afraid to ask (part 2)
Aug 02, 2020
Shadow King: The Life and Death of Henry VI
Aug 01, 2020
The Princes in the Tower: History’s Greatest Mysteries
Jul 31, 2020
Stonehenge: History’s Greatest Mysteries
Jul 30, 2020
The fate of Jesus’s body: History’s Greatest Mysteries
Jul 29, 2020
The lost colony of Roanoke: History’s Greatest Mysteries
Jul 28, 2020
The Voynich Manuscript: History’s Greatest Mysteries
Jul 27, 2020
Everything you ever wanted to know about Ancient Greece, but were afraid to ask (part 1)
Jul 26, 2020
Uncrowned Queen: The Fateful Life of Margaret Beaufort, Tudor Survivor
Jul 25, 2020
Unburied treasures
Jul 24, 2020
African American abolitionists in Britain
Jul 22, 2020
A history of magic
Jul 20, 2020
Everything you ever wanted to know about medieval queens, but were afraid to ask
Jul 19, 2020
At home with the medieval aristocracy
Jul 18, 2020
Lionheart of stone: the medieval statue debate
Jul 17, 2020
The Abdication crisis
Jul 15, 2020
Nero: Rome’s Antichrist?
Jul 13, 2020
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Cuban Missile Crisis, but were afraid to ask
Jul 12, 2020
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
Jul 11, 2020
Museums and colonialism
Jul 10, 2020
David Abulafia on The Boundless Sea
Jul 08, 2020
California’s century of change
Jul 06, 2020
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Scottish Wars of Independence, but were afraid to ask
Jul 05, 2020
The Picts
Jul 04, 2020
Women and the Crusades
Jul 03, 2020
World War Two: the challenge of commemoration
Jul 01, 2020
A history of pandemics: from Spanish Flu to Covid-19
Jun 29, 2020
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Georgians, but were afraid to ask
Jun 28, 2020
William and Cnut: a tale of two conquerors
Jun 27, 2020
Amy Robsart: a Tudor tragedy
Jun 26, 2020
Britain and the Korean War
Jun 24, 2020
Working mothers
Jun 22, 2020
Everything you ever wanted to know about British battlefields, but were afraid to ask
Jun 21, 2020
Saturday lecture: Medieval love and marriage
Jun 20, 2020
The Lancaster
Jun 19, 2020
Henry III: inside the mind of a medieval king
Jun 17, 2020
Francis Drake: slave trader
Jun 16, 2020
Britain and the slave trade
Jun 15, 2020
Everything you ever wanted to know about the civil rights movement, but were afraid to ask
Jun 14, 2020
The Field of the Cloth of Gold
Jun 12, 2020
The secret plot to kill Lincoln
Jun 10, 2020
The unexpected Tudors
Jun 08, 2020
Everything you ever wanted to know about Nazi Germany, but were afraid to ask
Jun 07, 2020
Saturday lecture: Medieval disease and medicine
Jun 06, 2020
The history of the Bible
Jun 05, 2020
A legendary pirate
Jun 03, 2020
The cosmopolitan Chaucer
Jun 01, 2020
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Civil War, but were afraid to ask
May 31, 2020
Saturday lecture: Medieval food
May 30, 2020
Indian soldiers at Dunkirk
May 29, 2020
Medieval prisoners of war
May 27, 2020
David Olusoga on A House Through Time
May 25, 2020
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Crusades, but were afraid to ask
May 24, 2020
Saturday lecture: Medieval crime and violence
May 23, 2020
Cooking for Churchill
May 22, 2020
Rutger Bregman’s optimistic history of the world
May 20, 2020
Living on the edge in Victorian Britain
May 18, 2020
Everything you ever wanted to know about the English Reformation, but were afraid to ask
May 17, 2020
Surviving the Great Plague
May 15, 2020
Rethinking the Renaissance
May 13, 2020
The life and legend of Florence Nightingale
May 11, 2020
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Vikings, but were afraid to ask
May 10, 2020
Britain at War
May 08, 2020
The Northumbrians: from Bede to Geordie Shore
May 06, 2020
Medieval globetrotters
May 04, 2020
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Victorians, but were afraid to ask
May 03, 2020
The Corn Laws crisis
May 01, 2020
How the world made us
Apr 29, 2020
The unexpected Vikings